Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I don't waste my time doing my head in about stupid things that don't really matter and don't waste time worrying over nothing.

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

I don't pay any attention to records. I don't want pressure. I just want to get to that line.

If you didn't relax away from your work, you'd tear your hair out in the middle of the night worrying about the next game when it's only a Monday and you're not playing until Saturday.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.