Lisa Loeb Quotes

When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

To be honest, I feel like I think too much. So I like working out because it makes me kind of relax.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

To switch off, I will take a sleeping pill if I have to. I also found myself realigning things.

With anxiety and depression, what's been most helpful to me has been learning a toolbox - a set of skills I can use when I'm in periods of low mood or feel an anxiety attack coming on. When Years & Years took off it felt like I needed that toolbox really quickly.

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something... Maybe you just need to take a nap.

I try to stay sane and grounded by hunkering down, eating right, and exercising. I make a routine of spin class, yoga, and Pilates, places I push my body so hard I can lose my mind. Cutting out caffeine and sugar, being mindful, and getting enough rest are important.

Pace yourself, pace yourself, pace yourself. And take time to rest. I guess if you don't rest and rejuvenate, then you harden, and I don't want to harden.

[Yoga] never calms me. Ever. But it certainly helps me prevent something.

How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some 'Monty Python.'

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don't like to be hassled.

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much.