Anxiety Quotations

I invite all those who share my anxiety about, and hopes for, the future, and who burn with the desire for a political rebirth, to enlist with us. And addressing myself especially to the young, I invite them to become the vanguard in this sortie of national reconstruction. For a proud and happy Greece!

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.

You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food.

A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

To me, the most worrisome part of traveling comes before any of the traveling actually occurs: the suitcase-packing process. It's a challenging and anxiety-filled process - I am caught between wanting my suitcase to be light and worrying I am going to need every single item in my bedroom.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will also push you to do precisely the things that scare you.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.