"I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather."
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"When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result."
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"Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety."
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"Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind."
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"But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father."
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"From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire."
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"The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle."
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"A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties"
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"Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever."
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"I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties."
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"Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams"
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"People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom."
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"Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing."
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"Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety."
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"For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety."
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"If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish."
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"No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience."
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"There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about."
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"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."
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"Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor."
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