Quotes About Stress

My habit is to get real competitive and make racing probably more work than it is enjoyable, and I put a lot of pressure on myself, and I feel like there's pressure from the outside - it's probably not real, but it's something I imagine.

I can't remember ever racing without any pressure.

Yaar, television has become a very exhausting medium for actors now. It's like you are racing against time in the race for TRPs, which can be very saturating.

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

I get road rage. I can't drive because I cuss people out.

I'm terrible for road rage.

All my friends with babies or husbands or full time jobs are running ragged looking after everyone and everything around them, but not themselves.

It has long been known that if you want to see me turn into a raging, snarling beast, then all you have to do is use any combination of the words 'chill out,' 'chilling,' or - my maximum red rag - 'chillax.'

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

I didn't always handle the stress of raising my kids on little money well.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

Gear not working on a live show - that is rough.

Being an NBA general manager really is a lot of pressure. There's so much that goes into the job.

The more force we generate, the more force the body has to absorb.

Generating comic material can sometimes get the better of you.

There's so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that's really hard for an 18 year old.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.