Glenn Turner Quotes

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing.

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

That which makes much noise and does nothing useful.

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Women tend to overthink things.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Time goes by so fast and worry is really wasted time and energy.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.