Best Neurotic Qoutes
259 Neurotic quotes by 186 unique authors
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Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear…
— Alfred Adler
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I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.
— Claire Danes
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All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
— Christopher Koch
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I was neurotic and weird from an early age.
— Joanne Froggatt
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Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold…
— Marianne Williamson
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The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I…
— Unknown Author
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I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around…
— Helen Garner
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Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are…
— Daniel Boulud
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
— Hans Eysenck
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By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
— Stacy Schiff
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If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition…
— Sigmund Freud
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for…
— Marlon Brando
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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do…
— Martha Beck
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Yoga is for those who are completely healthy as far as medical science is concerned, normal. They are not schizophrenic; they are not mad they…
— Osho
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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth…
— Sylvia Plath
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I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that.…
— Stella McCartney
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You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet that is yours. The…
— Unknown Author
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The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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And as Americans, we must ask ourselves: Are we really so different? Must we stereotype those who disagree with us? Do we truly believe that…
— Dave Berry
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All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.
— Alfred Adler
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I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And that's really it. And what…
— Jon Stewart
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A competent and self confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a sympton of neurotic insecurity....
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I'm very neurotic and self-conscious. So I think that I'll know when I'm becoming a dick and believing my own press.
— Andrew Garfield
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