As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have moments when I'll stare at a script and say, 'I don't know what I'm doing!' But then I push myself… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
“A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“I have always felt that fear possesses such great power, enough to paralyze and quake an individual. Pondering this, I realized that… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
That's always been my main anxiety - the people in the room. That's my massive stress - thinking that these people in… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
“Foreboding” might have been the appropriate word. “Dread.” The PROMISE of fear. It was tangible fear... smellable... the stale odor soaking into… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“Alarm clocks unset, their taunts silent. Crystals flashing dire red, as if to warn of seconds that dwell, of years that fleet.” — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
“The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
I just think you need to believe in yourself - be offensive, but still have some nervousness in your body before any… — Ada Hegerberg Copy Share Image
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I was overwhelmed by an undefinable sensation, too serene to be called anxiety, but unpleasant enough not to go unnoticed.” — Guadalupe Nettel Copy Share Image
“I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. — Harold Stephens Copy Share Image
Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“Anxiety compels a person to think, but it is the type of thinking that gives thinking a bad name: solipsistic, self-eviscerating, unremitting,… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible.… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image