Anxiety Quotes

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.