Unmanageable Stress Quotes

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

Failure is quite easy to handle because no one is looking at you. Success is difficult to keep and not everyone could handle it.