Spike Jonze Quotes

I stress a lot, sometimes.

I always have stress.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

Life is stressful.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

The thing is, you don't ever want to have pressure turn to stress.

With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.

I try not to take pressure because that it just stresses you out.

My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

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

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.