“In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.” KnowsEndsHappensImaginationCasesAnxietyHappeningsAnticipation Author:Oren Peli
“I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsMadeWould BeYoungCasesAnxietyFirst TimeMeetingsStudiosProductiveAnxiousNervousnessAmazing PeopleMeeting Someone Author:Rick Rubin
“Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.” IfsKnowsStrongBornCasesEgoAnxietyTerrorSupremeGiftedSupreme ConfidenceHigh Anxiety Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.” KnowsCareChristianSpiritualFightingReligiousChristianityCasesStruggleWeekDrinkBattleConflictAnxietyAll ThingsDressesRoundsTake CareAbsenceApathyAgonyWarfareFormalContestsSymptomsSaddestGet MoneySpiritual WarfareGreat Spiritual Author:J. C. Ryle
“If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.” IfsLifeLife IsDifficultResultsCasesBearsAnxietyBurdenUnhappyThis LifeDeprivedApprehension Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.” PersonsCareCertainTurnsCasesEventsAnxietyParliamentForeseen Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.” PeopleKindSometimesSufferingWealthCasesRichDoubtMaterialsAmountAnxietyBiggerDifficultyEncountersWealthyMaterial WealthDoubt And Fear Author:Dalai Lama
“There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFirstsActorsCasesPeriodsAnxietyShootingMovieLunchFloating Author:Jack Nicholson
“That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.” PeopleImportantEnergySpeakCasesIssuesSourceComfortAnxietyReactionsIgnorantClarityComplexityInabilityDependencyImportant IssuesExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?” PeopleShouldHas BeensSelfReasonFeelingsJoyStrongParentAttitudeCasesTalentPrideAchievementAnxietyStandardsIdealsShould HaveOppositesShameGuiltAccomplishedStableAssuranceCompetentSense Of SelfPrevailingDisturbanceSelf AssuranceDeep Feeling Author:Alice Miller
“Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed care. Seven psychiatric disorders are described and conceptualized in cognitive-behavioral terms. The authors then provided an unusually clear, reader-friendly description of how to assess and treat each disorder with illustrative case examples, and patient forms and handouts. It should prove very useful for clinicians or clinicians-in-training who want to learn how to conduct short-term treatment through an empirically validated approach.” WantShouldCareFormTermCasesClearPlansExampleReaderProveEssentialsAnxietyApproachTrainingTreatsSevenPatientErasDescriptionTreatmentFriendlyDisorderInterventionShort TermCognitiveGuidelinesPsychiatricHandoutsCliniciansAnxiety DisorderPsychiatric DisordersDepression And Anxiety Author:Judith S. Beck
“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.” ThinkingCasesWorstPositive ThinkingAnxietyNegativeCalmFleetingScenariosVisualizationConfrontingSapDependableWorst Case Scenario Author:Oliver Burkeman
“Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.” IfsWould BeTurnsBeliefCasesWorstAnxietyScenariosReassuranceWorst Case Scenario Author:Oliver Burkeman
“I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.” PeopleSexCasesAnxietyAnd LoveKillingDevastatedSex And Love Author:Albert Ellis
“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime.” GivingLooksFacesCasesDangerousExpressionHabitAnxietyTyrannyNervousWanderRangeUnconsciousYour FaceSmallestOffenseSuggestionsTicsMutteringAbnormality Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984