Anxious Quotes - Page 30

• I have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna get kidnapped, or somebody's gonna die, or killer bees are going to take you out. I'm a very anxious person.

  Annie E. Clark

  Kids, Killers, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

  Gloria Steinem

  Childhood, Energy, Down And

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists.

  William Monahan

  Class, Hobbies, Tire

  Source: collider.com

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• These past years have been really transitional for me in every aspect - personally, emotionally and professionally. I was excited and nervous and anxious because I literally had nothing to fall back on. This is my own thing, it's all me. I spent a year working on the record and really wanted to spend time on what it was going to represent and how it was going to represent me in this time in my life.

  Selena Gomez

  Fall, Past, Years

  "Selena Gomez Details Her Style ‘Revival’". Interview with Lauren McCarthy, wwd.com. October 7, 2015.

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• Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Prayer

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

  Florence Welch

  Conversation, Stuck, Knows

  "Florence and the Machine Announce New LP". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 23, 2011.

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• I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

  Julia Kent

  Sound, Introducing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out there and Jim and Nick were anxious to do Hap and Leonard anyway, and I had worked with them before, so it was a perfect story. I love the series. I hope there's a second.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Thinking, Perfect, Stories

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're doing. It's not necessarily what you're going to get back in terms of record reviews or how people talk about your record, it's getting on the road and playing the new songs live.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.

  Shelby Harris

  Unhappy, Definitions, Emotion

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Learning, Desire, Ability

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• The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up.

  Esther Smith

  Fighting, Age, Battle

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• Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I thought of his stern but kindly visage and buckled down and wrote the damn thing, because there’s so much information out there, and these are such anxious times in democracy, such unreasonable times.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Writing, Cat, Democracy

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

  Colin Powell

  Wish, President, Talk To Me

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Film, Familiar, Copies

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• The kind of sleep that I had during my own film [Certified Copy] screening in Cannes is different. It's not because of the specificity of the film. It was because of my relationship as an author to this film. Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them. Whereas this time, I didn't have that responsibility on my shoulders.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Sleep, Responsibility, Different

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• We were able to shoot in a lot of the locations where the mission actually happened and these guys existed, so that was kind of very affecting. We had a Czech crew and a lot of Czech actors. There's a great deal of authenticity to the project [Anthropoid], and Sean [Ellis] was very anxious that that was the case from the beginning.

  Cillian Murphy

  Guy, Able, Location

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Men, Careless

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• You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.

  Heinrich Heine

  Iron, World, Should

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.86

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• Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Real, Long, Anxiety

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• I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

  Antoni Tapies

  Worry, Anxiety, Feelings

  "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

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• When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Moving, Talking

  Anne Truitt (1987). “Turn: The Journal of an Artist”

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• Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mean, Night, Bunk

  Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”

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• How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  Francis Quarles (1777). “Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man”, p.26

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• Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Self, Order

  Georges Bernanos (1938). “A diary of my times”

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