High Anxiety Quotes

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

  Barry Levinson

  Two, Anxiety, Chance

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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  Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover who you are.

  Nick Vujicic

  Dream, Anxiety, Risk

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.200, WaterBrook

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• I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

  Rose Byrne

  People, Anxiety, Getting High

  "EXCLUSIVE: Rose Byrne is the Girl Next Door in ‘Neighbors’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 6, 2014.

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• The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, Comfort, Zone

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• I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.

  Jake Abel

  Work Out, Anxiety, Drug

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• I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

  David Crabb

  Art, Thinking, Anxiety

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 19, 2015.

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• Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

  Dick Cavett

  Strong, Anxiety, Ego

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.239, Henry Holt and Company

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• Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

  Daniel Goleman

  School, Boredom, Anxiety

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.157, Bantam

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• At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

  Vance Packard

  America, Agency, People

  Vance Packard (1991). “The Hidden Persuaders”

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• Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

  Stephen Holden

  Heart, Piano, Expectations

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• It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Ideas, Anxiety, Levels

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