You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph – not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.
I’m a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I’m very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.
If I could find a way to make a film that takes you into the mind of a fighter, where you have 36 minutes of combat with so many different emotions, so many highs and lows, so many obstacles to overcome, I’d do that.
‘The Great British Bake Off’ has brought baking to the nation, and we’ve seen people from all walks of life and backgrounds experience the highs and lows of competition and, more importantly, helping each other.
I dropped out of school when I was 14 and I was hanging out with comedians in their thirties. I moved out of home and had some real lows.
It can be a lonely place when you are injured. You miss being out there with your team-mates and just experiencing the highs and the lows.
Unlike Frank Sinatra, I have no regrets in my life. Zero. Whatever hardships I have faced, or have caused myself, are moments I have to embrace in order to move forward. I have no problem coming to grips with either the highs or lows in my life.
Now, the DJ becomes a star in itself because of the way he programs the songs with lows and then highs and then slowing it down. The big DJs, like Tiesto and Deadmau5 and all those guys, they are very, very creative.
My fans have always been supportive during my highs and lows. They have been the best set of fans, ever.
I understand the highs and lows of building a global business from the ground and taking that initial product idea all the way to the market.
I’ve had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I’ve already lived a couple of lives.
Just traveling the world, and getting to live the highs and lows of what we do, makes you a better talent and a better performer.
The ebb and flow of daily life can lead to wonderful highs, crushing lows, and everything in between.
And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That’s how it is.
I’ve experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
A mood disorder is dangerous. You’ve got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It’s dangerous if you don’t.
Every single day, entrepreneurship has highs and lows, and you need to feel like you have a community around you. That is insanely important – to have a community of people around you lifting you up and who really know you.
I actually ended up going through a vocal change. It started about two years ago, and it’s only been recently that I found my balance again. Vocally, I couldn’t figure out what was going on. My lows were getting lower, and my highs were getting higher; everything felt weird.
Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.
There’s a lot of insecurities and I think that’s being human. There’s highs and lows and it’s about navigating through that.
The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it’s all going to go into the art, whether I’m singing or acting or whatever.
The thing that I appreciate so much about my career and journey is that I do believe everybody can relate to it. There were highs and lows, obviously, before I got to the NFL. And then I got there and won a championship.
I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.
Politics is agony and ecstasy. The highs are amazing. The lows are excruciating.
My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.
It is a proud moment to lead England out any time you do and on a world stage it gives it an extra oomph as well but it will be down there with the biggest lows if we don’t win.
I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It’s sad and heart-breaking, and it’s not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.
Growing up in a family of actors, what’s great about it is that they’re very supportive and they understand what it’s like to be an actor – the rejections, the highs and lows… and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
I’ve been through a lot in my career. I’ve been through the ups, I’ve been through the downs. I’ve been through the highs and the lows.
For the past 32 years, I’ve done nothing outside the entertainment business. I’ve had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.
A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you’re jamming by yourself, but don’t hold up in a band situation. The sound isn’t dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.
I hydrate obsessively, limit processed foods, and make a conscious attempt to eat and drink pure things, organic foods. I’ve noticed that these things stay with me longer than processed foods and that I’m more consistent in my climbing and my life – there aren’t so many highs and lows.
I think there are lot more lows in an athletes career than the highs, but you’ve got to be bale to take them on the chin.
We’ve all had our highs and lows at different times throughout the years, but the fact that we had these loyal fans that just stayed with us all around the world is what’s been able to keep us alive.
We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.
I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.
I might have had my highs and lows in cinema and television but in theatre the response has always been positive.
I still have highs and lows, maybe I don’t cry salty tears as much.
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
What I want to do with my music is to just encourage vulnerability, and to talk about things even if they’re uncomfortable. Everyone has mental health – everyone has a mind that works in different ways and goes through highs and lows.
I’ve always felt comfortable, but in football, there are lows.
The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story’s going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.
This sport gives you the highest highs and the lowest lows.
In so many ways, World War II was one of the lowest lows imaginable, yet some of my most treasured memories come from that time. Communities came together, people displayed a wonderful generosity of spirit and I saw the bravery of our boys on the front line as they fought for our freedom.
I don’t dwell on the lows too long. I kind of put them away and just start fighting back.
A lot of people see the highs but not the lows. But I’ve always believed in my ability and that’s why I got through my rough patch.
I’m a believer of destiny, and I believe I’m destiny’s child. I’ve seen the highs, and I’ve seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.
In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback of 2004, I have seen the highs and lows of some other people’s favorite team.
It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it’s easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.
The highs of having a big family were that there was always someone to play with and you get loads of birthday presents. The lows were sharing the bathroom.
It’s a beautiful sport, boxing, when you’re winning and everything is going well but when you hit the lows it really upsets you.
There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And it’s never come back. It’s a trend that, if you’re liberal, is really discouraging.
To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace.
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