"Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning."
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"Don't worry about what people say."
"When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you."
"Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?"
"I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time."
"Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best."
"What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries."
"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."
"Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."
"Don't worry about getting it right. Just get it started."
"The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: 'We will allow the good God to make plans for the future - for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.' So we do not worry about the future."
"Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace."
"I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it."
"Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying."
"How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?"
"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
"On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame"
"Worry is a waste of imagination."
"For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry."