“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.” LoveFeelingsPainProcessNaturalLossGriefNormalIncreaseResponseGrievingBereavementCondolencesGriefingGrief LossSympathy CondolencesCondolences And SympathyGrief ComfortStages Of GriefSympathy For A Friend Author:Anne Grant
“I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, 'You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare.'” IfsThinkingKnowsHeartCareersHavensTomorrowBlessingNormalOkayResponsePianoPositive Response Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I'm not necessarily a happy person. I don't think that happiness is always the right response to a situation. I think we've come to a point in time where people are saying, "Oh, you know, loss and change, that's just normal."” PeopleThinkingKnowsPersonsLossSituationNormalResponseHappy Person Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson
“I have since talked to some of my girlfriends sexual assault and found out that they had their own experiences that they never shared at the time. It was never talked about it. And I think it's because of that normal response - you feel badly, you feel responsible, you feel guilty, you feel like you did something wrong, you feel ashamed.” ThinkingFeelsFoundLike YouNormalResponsibleResponseGuiltyGirlfriendAshamedAssaultMy GirlfriendSexual Assault Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.” IfsWayImportantUseLife IsViewsPathSuccessfulOur LivesNormalPaperAnxietyStressAdversityResponseEnvironmentalPrioritiesBest WayResistanceTensionTargetGet BackMinorsPapersFeedbackEvaluateAdaptedAdverseImmunityTacklingShufflingPath Of Least ResistanceAnxiety Depression Author:Denis Waitley
“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” WorldNeedsFeelsMaySeemsCompanyFitNormalExpectationsAdvantageResponseCuriosityCaughtObservationCompanionTemperCaught UpRemarksAdjustingTraveling AloneCompany We Keep Author:Alain de Botton
“I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.” WayBelieveMayProblemI BelieveSituationEmotionalHealthyNormalSolutionsResponseProductiveAppropriateInwardModeratesSpectrumVariablesChewing Author:Andrew Weil