Worry Quotes - Page 26

• French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Thinking, French Woman, Good Things

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• I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Simple, Funeral, Waiting

  David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.113, Canongate Books

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• Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.

  Helen Humphreys

  Memories, Light, Space

  Helen Humphreys (2006). “Wild Dogs: A Novel”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you've got a gun law that criminals will obey, why not just turn it into a murder law that criminals will obey-then we won't have to worry about the gun part.

  Andrew W. Ford

  Gun, Law, Criminals

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• Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life. I was beset on all sides by invisible worries. So, I shut myself in and slept. I slept until sleep exhausted me. Spring passed, summer ended, fall came, and then winter arrived. Then, it turned into another gentle spring.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC

  Mark Gorman

  Panic

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• I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.

  Arthur Laffer

  Stress, Mean, Government

  "Economic Debate: Laffer vs. Liesman". "The Kudlow Report" Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. February 26, 2009.

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• The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness, worry, even pain. It graces life when nothing else does. It is the first marvel of the day. Even when leaden grey it is still a friend, withdrawn for a time.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Sky, Grace

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• If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Thinking, Might

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Past, Men, Way

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• After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

  Gladys Taber

  Grief, Fishing, Anxiety

  "The book of Stillmeadow".

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• No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

  Umar

  Past, Guilt, Amount

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• We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

  David Leavitt

  Past, Hands, Anticipation

  David Leavitt (2013). “The Two Hotel Francforts”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Mean, Badges, Simplify

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• Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

  Aaron Sorkin

  War, Film, Theater

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• I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Want, Today, Computer

  "Being Nicholas". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. November 1, 1995.

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• South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.

  Park Geun-hye

  Country, Korea, Tables

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• Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

  Seth Godin

  Funny, Thoughtful, Marketing

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• Judo helps us to understand that worry is a waste of energy.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Energy, Waste

  "Kodokan Judo: The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.

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• The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Art, Giving

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact that he knows absolutely nothing about matters economic, he cannot even fully understand his economic advisers. . . . His constant worry has ever been to keep himself in power. . . . He believes that he alone is a great man, and all others non-entities.

  Fritz Thyssen

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.

  Roddy Doyle

  Jobs, Writing, Space

  "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Thinking, Different, Realization

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• Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

  Guy Finley

  Needs, May, Way

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Sep 13, 2014

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• The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

  Daniel Quinn

  Journey, Accomplish, Routes

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.40, Bantam

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