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“You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.”

Use Problem Energy Deals Behinds Worry Successful Building Anxiety Solutions Stress Burning Flames Frustration Pulling Burning Buildings Throwers

Author:Bill Crawford

“Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.”

Grief Behinds Anxiety

Book:The Yearling

Source: The Yearling

“A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.”

Should Two Matter Left Behinds Anxiety No Matter What Checks Mediums Two Things Restlessness Left Out

Book:The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Source: The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade.”

People Turns Force Answers Walks Behinds Anxiety Concern Trade Embrace Leaving Addresses Inward Globalisation Protectionism

Author:Barack Obama

“His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.”

Ifs Behinds Doors Anxiety Concern Bounds Terror Loud Crash Metamorphosis Misgivings

Book:The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.”

Parent Voice Behinds Childhood Security Source Wall Anxiety Filled Panic Bedroom Humming Bedroom Wall

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?”

Looks Left Behinds Anxiety Longing Casts Warm Rings Dumb Anxious Cheerful Prey Forgetfulness

Author:Thomas Gray

“Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.”

Important Sometimes Behinds Anxiety Rational What's Important Wiping Out

Author:Julian Smith

“Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.”

Thinking Ends Behinds Anxiety Weakness Opposites The End Of The Day Mask Sensitivity Sweetness Machismo Weakness And Fear

Author:Alain de Botton