#anxious

My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. ↗

— Robert Hall

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I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing. ↗

— Judy Holliday

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There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo. ↗

— Susie Bright

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. ↗

— Aristotle

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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious. ↗

— Pete Domenici

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Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. ↗

— Joseph Hume

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I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band. ↗