Anxiety Quotes - Page 17

• I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Father, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

  Donny Osmond

  Knowing, Anxiety Disorder, Goes On

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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Block, Home

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• I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Kind, Sometimes

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

  Joko Beck

  People, Cover Ups, Way

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• Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Pain, Nice

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• I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Hero, Sight, People

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• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  Samantha Bee

  Party, Anxiety Disorder, Shy

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• 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.

  Peter Coyote

  Home, America, Energy

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• 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.

  Simon Callow

  Children, Struggle, Understanding

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• I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a certain role or if you're going to be employed the next year. It's nice to be comfortable with that and then you can concern yourself with the stories and nothing else. There's no other agenda than putting out a good product.

  Tim DeKay

  Nice, Years, Comfort

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• I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.

  Erica Durance

  Character, Scare, Bigs

  "Erica Durance Talks Medical Drama SAVING HOPE and Why It Brought Her Back to TV After SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  Warwick Davis

  Self, Size, Public Speaking

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• It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Stress, Taken, Kids

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

  Sade Adu

  Late, Feels

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• Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

  Laura Bush

  Nature, Children, Stress

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• In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Self, Agony

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• No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must be strictly monitored by its owner to prevent lapses into health-threatening behaviors as identified by risk discourse. For those with the socioeconomic resources to indulge in risk modification, this discourse may supply the advantages of a new religion; for others, this discourse has the potential to create anxiety and guilt, to promote hopelessness and fear of the future.

  Deborah Lupton

  Indulge In, House, Risk

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• I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Publicity

  "Campaign stars Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell talk politics and pee". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2012.

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• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  Taylor Hanson

  Mean, Thinking, Space

  "Taylor Hanson Talks About Hanson’s New Album & Staying Out Of The Tabloids For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview With Stephanie Marcus, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• 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.

  Zola Jesus

  Break Through, Weakness, Way

  "Zola Jesus Is A Romantic". Interview with Leila Brillson, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Powerful, Thinking, Cynical

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• Pause and remember - Stop mentally abusing yourself. Stop agonizing over your past mistakes and worrying about the future. Life is hard enough without the added fear, panic and anxiety. Your soul is crying out for love and encouragement. Take a moment to breathe deep, get present and find some compassion for yourself. Then, go out and treat yourself right; pamper yourself and take care of your needs. You are worth it!

  Jennifer Young

  Encouragement, Mistake, Past

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• My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Economic, Volatility

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