Anxiety Quotes - Page 20

• Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.

  Paul Tillich

  Phrases, Paradoxical, Negation

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

  Robert Motherwell

  Abstract Painting, Common, Given

  4 Copy quote

• Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

  Alain de Botton

  Photography, Losing, Scene

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.114, Penguin UK

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

  Rollo May

  Ideas, Joy, Vision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

  Howard Hughes

  Small Numbers, Development, Way

  29 Copy quote

• A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Boredom, Typical, Dull

  9 Copy quote

• Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.

  Amy Poehler

  Jobs, Regret, Past

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

  Sara Davidson

  Laughter, Pain, Distance

  7 Copy quote

• While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Finishing, Unnecessary, Sincerity

  7 Copy quote

• If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

  Eric Maisel

  Thinking, Self, Doubt

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.231, Penguin

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.

  Eric Maisel

  Wall, Creativity, Littles

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

  John F. Carlson

  Beautiful, Canvas, Harmony

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Sia Furler

  Trying, Shy, Freak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".

  Kyongho

  Practice, Mind, Enlightenment

  4 Copy quote

• Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.

  Lala Lajpat Rai

  Animal, Generations, Cows

  156 Copy quote

• Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Worry, Soul

  354 Copy quote

• No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Spiritual, Worry

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.

  Daniel Smith

  Real, Lying, Hard Work

  Daniel Smith (2013). “Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

  Thalia

  Fun, People, Faces

  4 Copy quote

• The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Disease, Want

  Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818). “Zoonomia; Or The Laws of Organic Life”, p.112

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...You cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by faith. It either has to be by faith or by fear, by faith or by sight. Which way are you living? Faith takes out the anxiety It takes out the fear. Faith leans heavy on the Lord. It knows that the Bible is so and can be trusted and that we can live by it and all of our needs will be supplied.

  Lester Roloff

  Christian, Sight, Needs

  62 Copy quote

• Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to life. It only brings misery, anxiety, torture, and tension, because whenever you do anything halfheartedly you are dividing yourself into two parts, and that is one of the greatest calamities that has happened to human beings - they are all split.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Heart, Two

  13 Copy quote

• The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Yoga, Self

  4 Copy quote

• The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.

  Alex Caceres

  Fighting, Mma, Worry

  4 Copy quote

• Don't focus on the outcome, when you focus on the outcome it creates anxiety and it builds. I just need to enjoy the moment and let it be. If I just fight I know I'm going to go out there and perform and do it my best. Don't focus on winning or losing.

  Luke Rockhold

  Fighting, Winning, Mma

  20 Copy quote