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Quotes About Worry

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.
~ Nathan Fillion
I think I'm prone to panic.
~ Robert Plant
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
~ Virgil
I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.
~ Harvey Pekar
But the army - let me see - well, I discovered that physical courage depends to a great extent on the physical shape a man is in. I found that I was as brave as the next man - it used to worry me before.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn't, isn't.
~ Fannie Flagg
Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?' Luke 12:25.
~ Fannie Flagg
How I'd love to infect at least one soul with some kind of poison, worry or disquiet! This would console me a little for my chronic failure to take action. My life's purpose would be to pervert. But do my words ring in anyone else's soul? Does anyone hear them besides me?
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tiny concerns as well as large worries distract us from ourselves, hindering the peace of mind we all aspire to, whether we know it or not.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It worries me I may tell you. I sit at home every night thinking about it and smoking endless cigarettes. If you call at my place any night after seven I will show you one of them. Quite circular. Like a hoop.
~ Flann O'Brien
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
~ Richard Baxter
My worry is how to protect the Filipino.
~ Rodrigo Duterte
It is really awful to be filming and not know if you can pay everybody.
~ Alison Owen
I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
~ Kurt Andersen
In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
~ Bahman Ghobadi
New technologies always reshape society, and it's always tempting to worry about them solely for this reason.
~ Tristan Harris
If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it's not a good use of time and energy.
~ Harvey Pekar
I have a tendency to freak myself out.
~ Donovan Mitchell
I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the audience. But with experience, I think you begin to worry less about what the audience's experience is and concentrate on working with the other actors, and that tends to let the audience do more work.
~ Peter Riegert
I'm a person who sometimes tends to worry too much about cricket. Previously I would think about the game for probably 15 hours, but now with the presence of my wife it has come down to ten hours, and I would like to bring that down to about nine.
~ Dinesh Karthik
The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded.
~ Lisa Cholodenko
I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.
~ Michael Mina
I'm terribly prone to anxiety. I get very depressed and I get very anxious and my anxiety is almost always about my children.
~ A. A. Gill
When I was 11, I was terrified about the world.
~ Emily Maitlis