Travis Kalanick Quotes

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

My shrink said to me once when I used to get really overwhelmed and super depressed because I was really run down between kids and the company and there was just so much going on - she said, 'You know, you have to look after you in order for you to look after everybody else.'

I don't want to be the guy who, 'Oh, he's falling apart. He's a little punchy. Maybe it's time to stop.'

People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. That does something to somebody. These suspensions are the only vacations I've ever had.

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

I've had to find my sanity.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

You can't just take care of everybody else all the time.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.