“There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 45 of 107
“Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.”
“Worry is a form of fear.”
“I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.”
“Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.”
“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.”
“Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.”
“It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.”
“I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It's the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.”
“Worry is negative goal setting.”
“Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.”
“Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision”
“No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.”
“When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.”
“If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!”
“Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”
“Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.”
“This is the century of fear.”
“Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.”
“I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.”