Anxieties Quotations

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media's coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don't know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story.

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.

In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.

I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.

'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, shape public perceptions, it becomes popular in the first place only if it addresses preexisting hopes, fears, and fascinations.

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.

One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.

I am clear that the anxieties caused by recent developments have reached the point where we will need to sit down and discuss their consequences,

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

It an issue where a lot of our anxieties come together, from national security anxieties to economic anxieties. We put principle first and worry about politics later.

That's the point. You think you could be in that situation. It brings up all those universal anxieties about flying, even before the story turns dark.

The overall tone (of the consumer report) raises all these unwarranted fears and anxieties about pesticides. Raising fears poses a much greater risk of harming health than do residues on foods measured by government surveys.

When people are needing to get medicine, there's a lot of concerns and anxiety. The police are there to keep the anxieties down and provide that control and help things run smoothly.

This sharp increase in the number of the poor worsens our concern and anxieties on the real nature of the New World Order.

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

The signals coming from the bond market are significant and suggest that the anxieties in the markets are likely to dissipate,

'Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to allow the million arbitrary factors to make this a meaningful punishment, and finally to say, 'Are we really accomplishing what we wanted to accomplish? Are those anxieties relieved?' I don't think so.

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

I know that the parole board is anxious to receive this petition and I hope to allay their anxieties as soon as possible.

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.

All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.

The election is a minor uncertainty that the market would like to get out of the way. Over the next couple of months I do expect stock prices will be better. I think corporate profits will turn out to be OK and the market will view some of the tensions and anxieties of the third and fourth quarter as a bit of overkill.

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.