“What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.” PeopleTryingWellsSometimesHardWantedDealsStress Author:Walter Dean Myers
“Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.” FeelsTryingSelfRealityWantedMemoriesSadnessGoes OnDrugStressAlcoholListsThank GodMonkeysLiquorNumbHooked Author:Johnny Depp
“I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.” WayYearsWellsHardWantedLastsBeautifulSpacePleasureMissingDivineBalanceAnxietyStressLongingTricksDevotionGreekGiantsEnjoymentUrgesWorldlyTrashTranscendenceStress Free Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly defeating, on your way. That's a given. Just wipe out the very notion of stress. Concentrate on your actors. Obsess about your story and the world it is anchored in. Deal with the hundreds of down-to-earth issues [around] the existence of your film. At some point, everything will be ripe. And you wouldn't be able to stop your film from coming to life even if you wanted to.” IfsWorldWayGivingStoriesWould BeAbleWantedEarthFilmActorsGivenDealsExistenceIssuesAdviceDirectorsFemaleDifficultyStressMalesNotionEndlessWipeRipeDown To Earth Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“I always tried to make it a goal to relieve some of the stress my mother went through. I applied myself to school very diligently. I wanted to go out of state so I wouldn't have to depend on my mother.” StatesWantedSchoolMotherGoalDependsStress Author:Kellan Lutz
“For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted - say, to get the child to go to bed so I could have my own time. Just the promise of the time, and feeling that promise slip away, was enough to introduce a whole other element of stress into the encounter.” TryingChildrenEnoughWholeFeelingsWantedMy OwnSourcePromiseBedElementsStressEncountersFrustrationSlipsIntroducing Author:Carolyn Hax
“I was not stressing about what other people wanted. I put myself first.” PeopleFirstsWantedStress Author:Usain Bolt
“Poseidon’s trident was also all over the place, since Peter the Great wanted to stress Russia’s sea power. I especially like the trident on top of an obelisk -- what a great Egyptian/Greek mix up!” WantedSeaStressRussiaGreekPeterEgyptianPoseidonSea Power Author:Rick Riordan
“I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.” ThinkingKnowsWantedPeriodsAnxietyShotsStressShiningNot SurePanicRestlessPanic Attacks Author:Geoffrey Rush
“I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.” HardWantedCareersWifeStressSeparationStressedNew CarWorking Very HardNew Career Author:John Hewson
“I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.” WayWantChildrenWholeBodyWantedUsedHoursDecisionFailingAchieveTvsStressYour BodyPregnantWork DayLive Tv Author:Kara DioGuardi