Tierra Whack Quotes

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

It stresses me out if I mess up.

The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.

I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations.

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours

I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than others.