Neurotic Quotes - Page 7

• I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Thinking, Oxygen, Creative

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

  Charlie Brooker

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was feeling so inadequate in everything I did. I was afraid that I was going to come out being this crazy, disorganized, neurotic person. So it was revelatory that I worked more than 50 hours a week and I still spent a tonne of time with my kids. It was like, "Why do I feel one way when the reality is so different?"

  Brigid Schulte

  Mother, Crazy, Hard Work

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you're just neurotic and uncomfortable.

  Steve Toltz

  Artist, Difficulty, Uncomfortable

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In filming you're waiting. You're waiting for lights. You're waiting for people set things up. And when you're not waiting, you're repeating. And neither is conducive to spontaneity, you know. Comedy makes you very, very neurotic because you think, I - but did I nail it?

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• With acting, it's all about internalizing the character for me and doing all the preparation you can. So the day you first step into your wardrobe, you can walk like the person. That's really the moment where the light bulb goes off. You're nervous; any actor will tell you that. Robert De Niro will probably tell you the same thing. He may not want to share that with you, but he probably goes through it. That's why actors are so neurotic.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Character, Preparation, Acting

  "Donnie Wahlberg Talks Saw II". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. October 26, 2005.

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• We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are sort of tied. The Italians - I don't know where it stops. No nation can claim "We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are." Because it's going on everywhere.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Dirty, Democracy, President

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

  Emma Forrest

  Mistake, Thinking, Psychotic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To get to go from stage to set and back, it keeps you feeling very present, and I think that's always such a wonderful thing in your work because you don't really have time to be as neurotic as I might become.

  Lily Rabe

  Thinking, Feelings, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Anxious, Difficult

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room, and Prime, and Across the Universe... and Alice in Wonderland... She's really smart, and very helpful. That was nice, because I was super neurotic and worried.

  Chris Messina

  Running, Nice, Smart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider on an elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll go where he wants. They need to get a better relationship between the rider and the elephant. In part, you get it just from watching yourself stumble around in life, make mistakes, then read a little psychology and stop blaming yourself. Realize that I am flawed. I am complicated. I am divided, and I'm doing the best I can.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Mistake, People, Psychology

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

  Lena Dunham

  Artist, People, Looks

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of people think, oh, you have a wild imagination. I don't, really. If ten people are sitting around and someone says, "Hey complete this sentence in a funny way," I'm never ahead of the pack.

  George Saunders

  Hard Work, Thinking, Wild Imagination

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kids, Personality, Anxiety

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

  Jen Kirkman

  Loud, High Strung

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

  Erich Fromm

  Differences, Giving, Joy

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• Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

  Paul Tillich

  Anxiety, Doubt, Castles

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• If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah, blah, that lie, that neurotic vision, takes over your life and you're plagued by it 'til it's cleansed. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. [T]he better the play is, the more surprising and inevitable the lie is, as Aristotle told us. Plays are about lies.

  David Mamet

  Mother, Lying, Thinking

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• Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

  Marc Maron

  Insecurity, Balls, Genius

  "Q&A: Marc Maron on the Decline of Conversation, TV Stardom, Oligarchs, Self-Doubt & Cats". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Wind, People

  "In Conversation: Woody Allen". Interview with Adam Moss, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Teacher, Commitment, Self

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• God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Healing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 02, 2013

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• The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

  Ayn Rand

  Range, Interest, Persons

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• Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape; my voice is unpleasant; my mind is confused. - We are so caught up in this pointless, neurotic habit of criticism that we disparage others as well as ourselves. This is extremely damaging.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Confused, Voice, Mind

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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