Anxiety Quotes

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

Now is the age of anxiety.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

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.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot.

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.