Panic quotes
204 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
"If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names."
"Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive."
"Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path."
"The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies."
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"Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others."
"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
"If I panic, everyone else panics."
"Surprise is the mother of panic."
"Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic."
"ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way."
"Right now someone out there is struggling and starting to panic because they can't get out of a tempurpedic bed."
"To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public."
"In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is."
"I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it."
"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."
"I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy."
"All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood."
"Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic."
"Panic is a horrible thing."
"[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on."
"What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)"
"I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project."
"I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."
"What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?"
