Stressful Quotes - Page 3

• The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Practice

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Wish, Documentaries, Film

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Existence without essence is very stressful.

  Brian Christian

  Essence, Existence

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.

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• Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

  Byron Katie

  Hurt, Pain, Lying

  Byron Katie (2007). “Question Your Thinking, Change The World”, p.177, Hay House, Inc

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• People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Punishment, People, Population

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Radiation, Easier, Microscopes

  "Lack of privacy makes Fawcett's battle tougher", www.today.com. May 11, 2009.

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• I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.

  Errol Flynn

  Imagine, Monogamy, I Can

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• Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.

  Byron Katie

  Energy, Example, Exhausted

  "A Thousand Names For Joy: How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are". Book by Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell, December 26, 2008.

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• That's the dream scenario: when people approach these stressful situations not focused on that concrete outcome but just focused on being there and being themselves and enjoying connecting with people. You're not going to be present all the time, but if you can figure out how to connect with yourself and bring that self forth in those moments, you will probably be feeling a lot better over time, and it's likely that even though you're not focused on the outcome, the outcomes will be better.

  Amy Cuddy

  Dream, Self, Stressful Situations

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be in. You're supposed to be on point, you're supposed to be at the top of your game, the funniest you can be, in about five minutes, in front of people wearing suits who really don't care, and they've probably already picked their person, but they have to see a handful just to satisfy the process. It's the most horrible, horrible process known to man. I wouldn't want anybody to go through it.

  Andy Dick

  Men, Games, Stressful Situations

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. May 1, 2009.

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• It's stressful to keep doing audition after audition after audition. You finish one and go to the next one, and you have to learn lines. For me, I have to work on my accent, so I was getting accent coaching and acting coaching. I wanted to make good impressions.

  Luke Mitchell

  Coaching, Acting, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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• Having a partner who is your wife traveling with you can be great. We each have our roles in the work and then can help each other out on the emotional front when things get stressful, which they are.

  Peter Menzel

  Emotional, Wife, Roles

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• When I'm doing a movie, that's when I relax. As stressful as it can be, as much pressure as it should be, making movies is still the place where I feel the most at ease and I truly enjoy it. That's why I make so many.

  Salma Hayek

  Relax, Ease, Pressure

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• Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

  Deepak Chopra

  Hard Work, Ambition, Attachment

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• The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts - that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced.

  Karen Walton

  Summer, Encouragement, Art

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something and that's stressful.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Directors, Development, Scripts

  "Amanda Seyfried Talks LOVELACE, Her Lack of Hesitation in Taking the Role, Why LES MIS Felt Like Her “Winning Ticket,” and More at Sundance". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

  Anne Taintor

  Jobs, Hard Work, Long

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• Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Smart, Long, Events

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

  Scott Stossel

  Thinking, Stressful Situations, People

  "Fear Of Fainting, Flight And Cheese: One Man's 'Age Of Anxiety'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 6, 2014.

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• Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you won, and you have a nice lunch. Oscars are more stressful. I had to sit for three hours and wait for my category. I had to fly to Los Angeles. For the Pulitzer I just had to go up to Columbia. But, while the president of Columbia gave me the Pulitzer, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck gave me the Oscar, so that was better.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Nice, Winning, Lunch

  Source: movieweb.com

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• To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if that means that you have to help write a bridge or help write a part, that's what you do. If that means you help tune the guitars, then that's what you do. If that means all you do is tell the band their takes are good and they should stop f——— with things, then that's what you do. If it means you don't do anything except make sure the band doesn't fight, then that's what you do. Sometimes it's a little more stressful than others, but for the most part, you just don't complain about it and you just get it done.

  John Congleton

  Writing, Mean, Guitar

  "John Congleton: Meet Indie Rock's Unsung Hero Of 2011". Interview with Mike Katzif, www.npr.org. December 23, 2011.

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• If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.

  Frederick Lenz

  Indulge In, Upset, Levels

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• When you start projecting on the future - "Oh my God, I gotta do this and I'm not there yet" - well, of course you're not there yet because you're here now. That time will come. I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn't feel as stressful.

  Jennifer Beals

  Stress, Joy, Trying

  First for Women Interview, February 08, 2010.

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• Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you did not become upset, resentful or even ruffled. You simply observed that this person was saying or doing something cruel, as though you were calmly observing the scene in a movie. You simply would not be stressed by what would appear to others to be a highly stressful encounter. Stress and cruelty affect us as profoundly as they do only because we react to them resentfully.

  Roy Masters

  Stress, Upset, Encounters

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• Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.

  E. O. Wilson

  Self, Class, Identity

  "On Human Nature". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1978.

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