Bruce Wilkinson Quotes

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

We were starting to lose track with Earth because fame and success brings you many things that you're not really prepared for or know how to deal with as a human being.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

I always have stress.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

I've gone past the stage where I feel pressure.

I often feel like everything is moving so fast that I can barely recount where I was the day before, what I had for breakfast, or how great my workout was.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.

I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day.

Some days, I didn't know how I was going to make it to the next morning.

If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn't be wise.

I would sit in class, and I would just cry. Like I don't even know why. It wasn't my school's fault. It wasn't anyone's fault. I just didn't like the environment. I totally had too much on my plate. At this point I wasn't even doing YouTube yet, mind you.

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.