Julia Stiles Quotes

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You'll look and feel way better for it.

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.

I think I used to sort of segregate things. Work was this and life was this and exercise was this. And I feel as I get older, or I become more relaxed, I feel like wellness is my whole being.

It's very challenging to get the right balance between relaxing and working.

If you didn't relax away from your work, you'd tear your hair out in the middle of the night worrying about the next game when it's only a Monday and you're not playing until Saturday.

I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously. And to stop biting my nails!... Recording music has helped take my mind off certain things. For me, my music is therapy.

What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!

Being less stressed doesn't mean that you stop doing things.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don't like to be hassled.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.