Hoda Kotb Quotes

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.

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.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

It took me a long time to figure out how to deal with pressure.

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

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

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'