The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.
When I look out at the people and they look at me and they’re smiling, then I know that I’m loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we’re kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
As a young man, I feel as if it’s all about progressing. I may have had to mature a little faster than others, but no worries. I took it on full steam and led by example off the field.
I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know?
I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it’s a commercial, not that that’s a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it’s a commercial or a movie where I’m shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I’m doing a performance thing.
It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren’t ready for, like Faulkner’s, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.
The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways.
We think these big people are very happy, but the truth is they are worse than us. We are just worried about one thing – hunger; they have a thousand worries.
I can live on the road, no worries, because my life is scheduled, but when I come home to myself, that’s what I’m worried about, finding the balance.
I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.
Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It’s only talking on paper… talking about the things that matter to us.
I don’t sweat the little stuff anymore. The little worries, I just don’t have time for them anymore.
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.
What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day, films will not come my way, or if someone doesn’t watch your film, that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.
I think the least of people’s worries is a man In a dress.
‘The Last Ship,’ which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.
One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.
We recognise that, like us, other humans have insecurities and ambitions; we fall in love and have relationships that end in heartbreak; we worry about our children’s wellbeing; we say things we regret; we’re occasionally kept awake by fears or worries; and we try to impress people we look up to.
Anybody that worries about somebody suing them, that means that they’re so crooked that they sue people, and they think people are gonna sue them.
I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can’t tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
Asking your children about their fears or worries about going back to school will help them share their burden.
The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.
To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I’m writing is real.
On the plus side, leaving Leeds meant I have been able to spend a lot of time with the family, enjoying a very rare summer off and my first Christmas without work worries since I was a teenager. I was also able to accept an offer to work with BT Sport.
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
I am really driven, but my drive doesn’t effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
I feel better when I’m working. I tend to not know who I am when I’m not working. That worries me a little bit… I’ve been fortunate to be so busy, but I haven’t developed any other skills.
Some people go to bed at night thinking, ‘That was a good day.’ I am one of those who worries and asks, ‘How did I screw up today?’
When you have a family that you know you can always come home too, it just takes care of all your worries.
You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody’s lunch.
Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being ‘prideful,’ is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin.
Six decades ago, as Mao’s Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, ‘Who lost China?’ Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, ‘Who lost America?’
From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre – the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we’re losing our individuality.
I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.
When you don’t have any worries, it is better, but things happen in football, and we know we must try to resolve as soon as we can.
I don’t do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries.
One of the saddest things I’ve seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
Social media worries me because it’s not part of my world.
My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was probably trying to resign himself to fact that I wouldn’t live too much longer, just because of the way I was living.
Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don’t like in others.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
I’ve never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me.
On the scale of someone who’s really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.
Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music – it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that’s what music is about.
Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.
I remember unbelievable tension in our home. There were lots of meetings, lots of worries. I remember my father told me I had to be careful of what I said on the phone because it was tapped. And I remember how his friends adored and revered him.
It’s not so much religion per se, it’s false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I’m really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
