A Quote by Nick Murray

Surprise is the mother of panic. — © Nick Murray
Surprise is the mother of panic.

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Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!
It's that stubborn fixation on details that has invariably prevented me from getting excited about celebrating each passing year. Which is why my friends know that doing things such as throwing me surprise parties would only serve to surprise me with an overwhelming sense of panic and anxiety.
Look, he isn’t even concerned.” I poured the tea. “He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.” “I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like,” Jim offered.
I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First, panic. Second, conquer panic by working. Third, find ways to solve your doubts.
The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may sometimes cause a useful diversion, real panic can never be anything other than a waste of energy.
I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.
Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.
[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.
Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
Jody Houser, who writes Mother Panic, has this noir-ish superhero style. She's very adaptable.
I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.
As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when your hand or head is stuck in something.
If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.
I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.
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