Anxiety Quotes - Page 33

• Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.

  Emma Stone

  Moving, Feelings, Mind

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• I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going.

  Steve Buscemi

  Thinking, Missing, Getting Older

  "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.

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• The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

  Marc Maron

  Despair, World, Causes

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

  Marc Maron

  Different, Panic, Reason

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Athletic, Mind, Levels

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out that you appreciate the anxiety that comes with having to try to sell a line, or with trying to own a character.

  Mike White

  Character, Thinking, Appreciate

  "An Interview with Filmmaker and Actor Mike White". Interview with Toph Eggers, believermag.com. March 19, 2014.

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• I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.

  John Hodgman

  Mean, People, Financial

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Fun, Stupid

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• You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

  Meryl Streep

  Energy, Kind, Process

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• Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Doe, Academic

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• I was deeply identified with a very unhappy, egoic entity I believed was "me." For years I lived in depression and continuous anxiety. One night I couldn't stand it anymore. The thought came into my mind, "I cannot live with myself any longer."

  Eckhart Tolle

  Night, Years, Mind

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Stressed

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

  Kristen Stewart

  Passion, Thoughtful, Care

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Some people work to have a weekend and so on the weekend they genuinely don't think about anything apart from the fact that they're on their weekend. Some people are like that so maybe some people would be like, "Yeah that'd be great. Take away my anxiety and give me a nice lounge chair." But I would be so not interested in that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Nice, Weekend, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.

  Andrew Saul

  Reading, Needs, Research

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Long, Easier

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Race, Racing

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

  Mike Young

  Thinking, Trying, Force

  Source: 12thstreetonline.wordpress.com

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• Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around your deep abiding need to write. Say Yes more, but not always. Say No enough that you have a life.

  Nick Earls

  Writing, Ears, Abiding

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'

  Madonna Ciccone

  Heart, Insane, Rebel

  Source: www.newnownext.com

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• I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also know how to get things done. And I think it's important that, while we acknowledge the anxieties that Americans have, I think it's also important we realize at the end of the day, we need to have somebody who knows how to land a plane, and I've landed quite a few planes.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, Ohio, Land

  "John Kasich on rising in the New Hampshire polls; Sens. Ron Johnson and Chris Murhpy on how America should respond to Europe's refugee dilemma". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2015.

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• Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is the root of envy; the desire to conquer and be the deciding factor; pride in the glory of power; the urge to adorn oneself and to be liked; the craving for praise; concern and anxiety for physical well-being. All these are of the world; they combine deceitfully to hold us in heavy bonds.

  Tito Colliander

  Pride, Roots, Envy

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.30, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Powerful, Remembrance, Asceticism

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• We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

  Voltaire

  Adore, Invoke, Appease

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1747, e-artnow

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• If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Brother, Knowledge, Men

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