“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.” FeelsHumansArtEndsArtistBitsProduceGoes OnAnxietyBalancedNeurosisBeing An ArtistImbalance Author:Beverly Pepper
“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.” ThinkingWantFeelsHumansArtStillsEndsArtistCertainBitsProduceGoes OnAchievementAnxietySuicideHungerEdgesBalancedAngstLiving OnNeurosisBeing An ArtistImbalanceLiving On The Edge Author:Beverly Pepper
“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.” ThinkingWritingI CanHardDonePastLife IsThreeBitsCan DoGoneFiveMaterialsAnxietyJokesPressureCome UpRelaxScreenplaysI Can Do ItParalyzed Author:Steve Martin
“The biggest anxiety is just about America's role in the world. People are feeling very unsafe. They really are. They're just wondering whether, anything can be done to try to stabilize the world a little bit.” PeopleWorldTryingLittlesDoneFeelingsAmericaBitsWonderRolesAnxietyLittle BitUnsafe Author:Chris Christie
“I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.” MomentsFactsKidsUsedBitsAnxietySillyTeenagerPanicPhobiaOutgoingPanic Attacks Author:Dane Cook
“Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.” WayFirstsPersonsMadeFeelingsFeltBitsWaitingVoiceAnxietyPerformancesStartingMade ItInstantSatisfyingNonfictionJournalConnectingBlogsPublicationFirst PersonReadershipKeeping A JournalPerformance Anxiety Author:Kate Christensen
“Martin [Campbell] is very energetic and precise. He'll on the set like four hours early with a flashlight and I thought, well, I'll certainly try to be very neat about my script like Martin, which I wasn't, but I'm not going to do that bit with the 4AM and the flashlight. I'd love to be able to say I was nervous, but I wasn't. The only time I ever had anxiety it turned out to be asthma.” TryingWellsAbleBitsHoursFourAnxietyScriptsNervousPreciseOnly TimeNeatEnergeticAsthmaFlashlights Author:William Monahan
“That's always been my main anxiety - the people in the room. That's my massive stress - thinking that these people in the room are judging me. And, this time around, I've been able to think a little bit more clearly about that. I've been able to think "Well, no. They're here to enjoy a show," and I want to give them that. I want to give them their money's worth – for starters.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingWellsLittlesShowsAbleBitsEnjoyRoomsJudgingAnxietyLittle BitStressMassiveJudge MeStarters Author:Ladyhawke
“I don't mind being recognized, it's just that I have a bit of social anxiety, and this situation has increased it. The idea of having to be 'on' and social at random times can be difficult. I'll be out in the morning, someone comes and takes a picture, and then I discover I have toothpaste on my face.” MindIdeasFacesSocialBitsDifficultSituationMorningAnxietySocial AnxietyToothpaste Author:Simon Helberg
“There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.” MomentsFactsAbleFallBitsStageWallAnxietyThat MomentShynessBlockedOverthinkingPlaying Someone Author:Emma Stone
“I think every one of us dreams, and we know what the quality of a dream is. In many ways, the reason dreams are so - mine are a little bit nightmarish, is that it's when you're really naked and can really face the things you don't face in reality, your darkest anxieties.” ThinkingKnowsWayLittlesReasonDreamRealityFacesBitsQualityMinesAnxietyLittle BitNaked Author:Shirin Neshat
“I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.” ChildrenSelfBitsFiveAnxietyMy FriendsFilledBarsFormer Author:Jane Smiley
“The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.” MenBelieveLooksSaidMomentsWantedYoungLyingGirlBitsEnjoyLike YouAnxietyGratefulVery GoodEnjoyedYoung ManLiarsWarmthFlattery Author:Milan Kundera
“From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.” MayStatesMightEyeThreeBitsGoalDealsWonderEffectsCreationEmotionalParticularReaderBalanceHorrorAnxietyConcernHarmonyTerrorTalesPsychologicalPrimariesNarrativeDramaticShockDisplayInherentExaggerationMomentaryAmazementSophisticationWildnessDecorum Author:Peter Straub
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.” WantFeelsMayProblemBitsAnxietyLet MeInsecurityGrantsAuditoriums Author:Cary Grant
“I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.” WayFeelsKindLittlesHas BeensAgeBitsTvsHugeAnxietyLittle BitFemaleJealousyBirthdayFemale Friendship Author:Lena Dunham
“But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren't met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death - neurosis and psychosis.” IfsMenNeedsWellsImportantBitsSimpleProduceEmotionalMetsDegreesAnxietyHungerUncomfortableIsolationFrustrationShelterThirstRequirementsNeurosisPsychosisEmotional Needs Book:Love Source: Love
“I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMeanLittlesBitsSpaceGroupsHugeAnxietyLittle BitCrowdsIrrationalLarge GroupsSmall Spaces Author:Taylor Hanson