Quotes About Anxiety

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.

Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown," Ajay whispered.

Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me,' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.

Something I know about seemingly confident people, and especially people who work in large companies, is that often they're more afraid of making a mistake than they are of wanting to do something right.

locked in self-preservation ("I am threatened and must do anything I can to survive")

Something I know about seemingly confident people, and especially people who work in large companies, is that often they're more afraid of making a mistake than they are of wanting to do something right. (That's especially true for managers or CEOs in their mid-forties, and even truer if they're men.) That's because they're afraid of being pounced on if things go badly and afraid of the hit their self-esteem will take if they screw up.

The more anxious and alone or inadequate and incompetent they feel, the more tenaciously they hold to whatever thoughts, attitudes and behaviors bring relief. If they do not develop more effective coping mechanisms, the ones that bring relief solidify into self-defeating behaviors.

What's a matter Chris? You shitting yourself? You should be!

You choke when your focus switches from the individual point you are playing or delivery you are facing and start worrying about your situation in the wider context of the game — or, indeed, how you fared on previous points or even in previous games.

It's like waiting for a roller coaster but with only misery ahead and no thrill.

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

If you're inclined to worry, society sure has given you a good selection.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics

I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

It may sound funny, but I got a thrill when I was pulled into a crowd once. It was like 'How am I going to get out of this?!