Anxious Quotes - Page 9

• If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.

  Tamora Pierce

  Running, Fun, Writing

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• If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.

  Sidney Poitier

  Oneness, After Death, Feels

  "Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2000.

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• There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

  Chris Ofili

  Talking, People, Made

  "After the elephant dung: Chris Ofili". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

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• Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Husband, Home, Work Out

  Samuel R. Delany (2010). “Dhalgren”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Helping, Finance, Neighbor

  "The Outsourced Life" by Arlie Russell Hochschild, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2012.

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• The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.

  Benjamin Graham

  Simple, Principles, Buying

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• I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."

  Bill Nighy

  Self, Yesterday, Anxiety

  Source: collider.com

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• Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

  Julian Cope

  Panic Attacks, Yeah, Borderline

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• Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

  Dale Archer

  Heart, Sleep, Racing

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• I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

  Chace Crawford

  School, College, Class

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• I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

  Christian Lacroix

  Happened, Knows

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• I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.

  Frantz Fanon

  Here I Am, Soul, World

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.89, Grove Press

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• I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.

  John Constable

  Reality, Imagination, Looks

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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• Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Imagine, Wells, Knows

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• My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

  David Giuntoli

  Mom, My Mom, Wanted

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

  William John Locke

  Anxious Thoughts, Human Nature, Advertisements

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.59, tredition

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• Remember how the Lord rebukes Martha when He says: 'You are anxious and troubled about many things: one thing alone is needful' (Lk. 10:41-42) ? to hear the divine word; after that, one should be content with anything that comes to hand.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Hands, Remember

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• When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Selfish, Upset

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• What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.

  Francis Collins

  Night, Generations, Next

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Thoughtful, Self

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.213

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• It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Crush, Flower, Envy

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• And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Government, Perfect, Storm

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• Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Views, Toil

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.548

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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.556

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• We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.

  Martin Seligman

  Children, Persistence, Skills

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