Anxiety Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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'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.

  Rick Rubin

  Thinking, People, Meeting Someone

  "Dave Grohl Vs Rick Rubin". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. March 21, 2013.

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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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• 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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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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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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• Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Dream, Stupid, Giving

  "Chloe Sevigny on Pauly D, Parodies, and More". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2011.

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• 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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• When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.

  Jude Bijou

  Silly, Insomnia, Worry

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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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• Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Fear, Simple

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• Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

  Stefan Molyneux

  People, Social, Results

  Twitter post from Aug 7, 2016

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• Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Pain, Disappointment, Communication

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• There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Pain, Grief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fancy Cars, Heaven, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.60

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• That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we 'know' to be present that causes us anxiety.

  Robert Kegan

  Feelings, Half, Causes

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• 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.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Humble, Feelings, Trying

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• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Heart, Years

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• From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Arms, Restless

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1831). “Paradise Lost : a Poem in Twelve Books”, p.96

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• It is only when we want to take our lives out of the Father’s hands and have them under our own control that we find ourselves gripped with anxiety. The secret of freedom from anxiety is freedom from ourselves and abandonment of our own plans. But that spirit emerges in our lives only when our minds are filled with the knowledge that our Father can be trusted implicitly to supply everything we need.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Father, Hands, Secret

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