Minoru Yamasaki Quotes

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life!

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.'

The idea that we all have to be Pinterest-perfect, killing it on all fronts, drinking our probiotics, remembering to have Rishi, and putting all these things in our kids' lunches - there's a lot of pressure to do all of the things. And we can't do all of the things. I can do a few things, and I've got them nailed. I think that's more realistic.

I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

Me, I don't want to put the pressure on myself.

When you're type A you always think you can fix anything. Sometimes there's nothing you can do.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

My shrink said to me once when I used to get really overwhelmed and super depressed because I was really run down between kids and the company and there was just so much going on - she said, 'You know, you have to look after you in order for you to look after everybody else.'

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking.

I just don't believe you can have it all and be great at everything, something has to give at some point. You've got to give yourself a break sometimes.

I would say asking for help, which is something I'm not really good at. I think a lot of Type A personalities aren't! Recognizing that you can't do it all and you can try but the main priority is prioritizing joy.

We're only human beings and cannot always be in control of our lives.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

Don't feel like you have to do and be everything.

Wellness, I came to realize, will not happen by accident. It must be a daily practice, especially for those of us who are more susceptible to the oppressiveness of the world.

I just do my best, that's all. I don't give myself pressure.

There are roles that I can't do.

The truth is, if we abuse ourselves with too much work and too little play, our body is eventually going to fight back, and the results can be terrible.