Top 1200 Anxiety Disorder Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.

There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

To describe someone as a pessimist is to issue an insult, whereas to be labelled an optimist is to get a pat on the back. To dismiss someone's argument as pessimistic is to suggest it is the product of a personality disorder, rather than careful analysis.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.

I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years ago, so it's something I've been battling most of my life.

One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

I have done Botox before. I just don't love doing it. It gives me so much anxiety!

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

I am on medication - I've talked about that before - just to help my anxiety, so I'm not depressed all the time.

When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

A lot of my musician friends have the same kind of anxiety and panic when faced with crowds of people, and I do, too.

My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

At some point, I stumbled across an article about OCD. As I read, I was blown away by how identical the writer's description was to what I was experiencing. It was overwhelmingly comforting to finally realize that I wasn't alone and that nothing was wrong with me. It was a treatable disorder.

My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.'

The relationship between individuals or communities and the environment ultimately stems from their relationship with God. When ‘man turns his back on the Creator’s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order.

Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor.

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

I try to stay positive and keep my head up right, but I really do have a lot of anxiety.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.