“My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.” WholeCareersIssuesAchievementAnxietyAcademicAdequacy Author:Ram Dass
“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.” YearsHas BeensMatterCharacterPoliticalDesireGivenNumbersSecretEmotionIssuesInfluenceConversationAnxietyWeaponsWingsGuiltIdeologyRadicalProportionUnconsciousOppositionAggressiveContinuingRight WingIntimidatedParalyzedAmbivalenceInsurgency Author:Ellen Willis
“The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.” PeopleI CanPastRememberIssuesAnxietyPulling Author:Mason Cooley
“I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me the intricacies of language - just shied away from the issue. They didn't want to talk about it, other than to suggest I could be a "role model" to other Hispanics - when I went back to my barrio, I suppose.” MenWantLanguageRolesIssuesTaughtAnxietyModelsMinoritiesMeant To BeProfessorsRole ModelsIntricacy Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard.” ThinkingHardSocialNumbersIssuesEconomicAnxietyTrainClintonRidingSocial Anxiety Author:David Brooks
“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
“A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy's Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.” TryingYearsKindMayGuyInterestResponsibilityIssuesAnxietyInstitutionsScaredDeterminedProfessionExcitementHospitalsHealthcareDevotedAssuredBreakdownPupils Author:Thomas Addison