Lisa Lutz Quotes

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

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.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

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.

My life is so active, and I'm fighting the whole day that I don't have any aggressiveness or any energy outside of fighting. I'm the most chill couch potato you could ever meet.

I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

The President is suffering from nervous exhaustion….He needs to rest for a considerable time.

I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn't satisfying me, things I was supposed to do for my career. I stopped and said, 'Let me get back to the basics.'

I really wish I worried less.

Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.

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

I stress, worry, get nervous and I start to over-think about a lot of things, but I think a little bit of doubt and nervousness always keeps me on my feet.

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

At times, you get going and you think you need to work, work, work, and your body is going to get fatigued at some point.

I would cry all of the time and I didn't know why! I was having shows and after the show I would go to the room, order a big hamburger and a vanilla shake or something like that... and cry because I was so depressed... I think it was because I was too tired.

I don't stay in the constant worried and over-thinking zone.

I work all the time and find it hard to switch off.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

I think I've always been paranoid.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake