Quotes About Anxiety

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

It's a business now. But you still have little butterflies in your stomach before every game.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

Being scared doesn't move you forward~ it only holds you back

Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody could see me.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

But the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. We don't need that kind of encouragement, because dissociating from fear is what we do naturally. We habitually spin off and freak out when there's even the merest hint of fear. We feel it coming and we check out.

We fear losing our illusion of security—that's what makes us anxious.

Once I was sitting next to a man on an airplane who kept interrupting our conversation to take various pills. I asked him, "What is that you're taking?" He answered that they were tranquilizers. I said, "Oh, are you nervous?" and he said, "No, not now, but I think when I get home I'm going to be." You can laugh at this story, but what happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy?