Danny Ainge Quotes

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

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.

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.

People blame themselves for their own layoffs…. We ignore the effect on mental health. Every person in this society who is laid off is told that they lack value…. We undermine public health.

People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

HBOS had robbed me of my marriage, my family, my businesses, my longstanding friend and business partner, my income, my investments, my self-respect, my reputation, my privacy, my physical and mental health. It cost me my security, my image rights, my collection of classic cars - and very nearly my life.

If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

I had had to quit a few jobs in North Carolina because of how anxious they made me.

Being out of work is very depressing. But luckily I haven't been there for a long time.

Just as you're allowed to be angry about injustice, it's natural to express feelings of sadness or fear, especially if you're exhausted by the prospect of trying to keep a brave face.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

Mayweather was my first professional defeat and I took it really, really hard.

I got fired from WWE and it felt like our lives got turned upside down.

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

I know from experience that one of the first things to drop off during great transitions, such as dealing with grief or loss, is taking care of our bodies.

It sends the wrong message to participate in hosted golf and other entertainment activities while thousands of Oregonians face foreclosure, unemployment or are simply struggling.