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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
When I meet people for the first time, I'm friendly but shy. I'm much less outwardly nervous than I used to be, but I still get anxious sometimes.
I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK.
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone else.
We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking.
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
I love throwing parties and being sociable and dancing. But I also have this other homebody side and can become quite isolated and anxious.
I was always quite anxious, but when I left uni and started to have serious relationships with men I became incredibly insecure about the fact that I was my parents' daughter.
When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.
I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.
We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.
What strikes me as most significant is that young people everywhere in India are anxious to do something. But I have also felt they are not quite clear in their mind as to what they should do.
As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.
I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.
I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after 'Taps' in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was.
It shouldn't be normal to be anxious all the time about your children, so women should seek mental health help if they're having excessive levels of anxiety.
Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.
When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.
And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.
I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.
Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
I am anxious that, in some areas, changes across Government departments are making things worse for our nation's mental health.
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.
I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
I was getting a little bit bullied by guys who thought I was taking their customers, and it got to the point where I was anxious every time I set up my keyboard.
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.
Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.
You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed.
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
I don't care who you are, if you're not feeling anxious before playing in a final, you're not a real person. I don't care who you are.
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.
What we put in our bodies can make us feel depressed or anxious, and it's the same for fitness, I think it all joins up in this big circle.
The only time I'm relaxing is when I have the puck and controlling the puck. If I don't have it, I'm getting anxious, and I want to have it.
As an actor, I felt nervous only during the release of my film. When I became a director, the anxious moments started once the editing work began.
If you are burned, you are naturally anxious to see what your face looks like as soon as they take the bandages off. In my case, it was my voice that was my main concern.
