Quotes About Stress

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.

The people who know me do not ask me about the next book or how it's going. They ask, 'Jason, are you sleeping?' because they know my brain will not shut down.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

Some guys have trouble sleeping the night before an important round. I never have. Invariably, I sleep longer and better, and have more dreams, when I'm in contention and feeling pressure.

For many years, taking care of myself consisted of showering and showing up to work on time. Sleeping and eating were inconveniences at best.

One of the more difficult things is the time. Either you are going 100 miles an hour, or you are sleeping. There is nothing in between.

Working the road will kill you. Eating cheeseburgers, sleeping odd hours. If you don't do something, it breaks you down. People think that it is glamorous; it is not glamorous.

I have sleepless nights before press days.

I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

What I'm like with lack of sleep is that I let the devil in, so if I'm tired the slightest thing will put me into a bad place.

Yes, people can crack under pressure, but I think people can also let things slip out when they're comfortable.

I don't feel pressure. I do feel like if someone can see me slip up, you know, they would love it because it would complete the family craziness.

Players have exams, banquets, awards, and holidays, so it's easy to slip up and lose focus.

As a depressive, routine is sand slipping through my fingers. Being self-employed doesn't help.

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

Life is hard enough without being worried about the smallest interaction with a public servant.

If I spend time visualising smashing someone, it's good to a certain extent. But when I overdid it, it put me under pressure.