Teju Cole Quotes

As long as you're happy, I think that is the main thing. It's something people forget way too often these days getting so stressed thinking about what other people's opinions are or what they need to do tomorrow.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that.

NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry

I just can't relax. That's my problem.

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

Don't worry about planning every step of your life.

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that!

I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.

I always have stress.

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?

I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.