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“The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.”

“One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.”

“Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.”

Writing Book Difficult Serious Paper Anxiety Aspect Writing A Book

Author:Frank Luntz

“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”

Ifs Feels Today Certain Morning Trouble Paper Anxiety Void Every Morning Catastrophe Sigh

Author:Lord Acton

“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”

My Own Taken Clear Paper Anxiety Conscience Prison Faults Pens Forbidden Doing Nothing

Book:Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Source: Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

“Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.”

Firsts Lasts Felt Fear Levels Paper Anxiety Accompany

Book:The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

Source: The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”

Mind Children House Lost Causes Steps Cry Paper Anxiety Sitting Bottom Wander Blank Scrutiny Lost Child Blank Paper

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety.”

Ifs Way Needs Writing Bigs Difficult Worry Clear Records Dying Paper Anxiety Understood Complicated Smoking Reverse Difficult Things Shutting Down

Book:Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

“Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.”

Mind Self Motivation Results Humility Ego Paper Anxiety Opposites Errors Calm Work Out

Author:Robert M. Pirsig