“Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.” GraceConditionsStageDivineAnxietyMadnessSacredSufficientFrightInsufficientAilmentsStage FrightJesuitEpilepsy Author:Charles Rosen
“I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.” TryingSocialStageSecurityEasierAnxietyShyFreakBeing ThereManicSocial Anxiety Author:Sia Furler
“There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.” PeopleShowsFacesFunEnjoyStepsAudienceMinutesStageAnxietyHaving Fun Author:Thalia
“The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.” WorldHeavenStarsLevelsBrainStagePridePersonalityAnxietyLowsHatredClaimsDetailsLocalsCharacteristicsPoolGenesPunkPrimitivePettyGenesisWhimBarbariansPreoccupationJehovahBlueprintsMachoPrimatesLow Level Book:Evolutionary Agents Source: Evolutionary Agents
“I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.” MenLittlesHas BeensCountrySometimesStageDangerReturnAnxietyRetirementPublic LifeCorrespondence Author:George Mason
“I don't get any anxiety. I don't because of two reasons. Number one, just breaking through it as a kid and finally getting past it was like okay, nothing's ever going to feel that scary again as that deafening silence of a joke not working. Any joke not working is not as bad as not being able to even try and get on stage.” FeelsTryingTwoReasonKidsAblePastNumbersSilenceStageAnxietyJokesOkayScary Author:Dane Cook
“A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.” WayChildrenCertainEnergyGrowthChallengesWalksDealsSituationStageEventsAchievementAnxietyAdultsNegativeMirrorsCrisisResponseInstanceMasteryNew LifeFeedbackPredictableCopingSmall ChildNew ChallengesRegressionNew SituationsNew Energy Author:T. Berry Brazelton
“I've always loved performing. It was always very exciting for me. I don't get too nervous when I'm playing, but on every stage, it's a little different. I'm always excited, but sometimes, the level of anxiety to perform is greater.” LittlesDifferentSometimesLevelsGreaterStageAnxietyExcitingExcitedNervousPerforming Author:George Li
“I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.” KnowsPlayBigsMightHoursStageGoes OnCoupleAnxietyCrowdsNervousness Author:Lights
“I know a lot about fear in itself, and lived with fear a lot. Lived with anxiety a lot, lived with the things that - most human beings, at some stage in their lives, are going to live with these feelings.” KnowsHumansFeelingsHuman BeingsStageAnxiety Author:Charlotte Rampling
“I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate travel, I hate living out of suitcases, I hate the constant anxiety of being on stage.” WantedHateSuccessfulStageLuckyAnxietyMusicianI HateConstantI RealizedSuitcases Author:Garth Greenwell
“I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.” KnowsChanceWiseStageAnxiety Author:Jay Mohr
“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
“At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.” LiteratureDealsStageAnxietyMiseryOverwhelmedBeing Overwhelmed Author:Nigella Lawson
“In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.” IdeasCareLife IsSimpleLevelsAttentionStageAnxietyAccessRoutineContrastGetting OldFacilityHigh LevelGetting HighMobilityStages Of Life Book:Faith in the Public Square Source: Faith in the Public Square
“['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.” PeopleWritingIdeasReasonWantedSongDealsFireHeardStageJudgingAnxietyJudgmentRainLondonSongwritingSay AnythingExaminingFrightStage FrightUseful Thoughts Author:James Taylor
“I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying” IfsAbleWaitingLove IsAudienceJourneyStageCryAnxietyBalls Author:Loretta Swit
“I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my stage fright. Which I used to think there was no cure for…Last night was the first night I’ve slept 8 hours naturally in my entire life. I felt the best I have in ages. It’s better than any medication or all of the other nonsense I’ve tried.” ThinkingFirstsMadeHelpingAgeLastsUsedNightFeltHoursStageAnxietyCuresHelp MeNonsenseLast NightInsomniaMedicationFrightStage Fright Author:Sky Ferreira
“Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the next? The answer: You feel anxious. Anxiety that is denied makes us ill; anxiety that is fully confronted and fully lived through converts itself into joy, security, strength, centeredness, and character. The practical formula: Go where the pain is.” FeelsCharacterPainJoyNextGrowthAnswersStageSecurityAnxietyIllPracticalsEndeavorFormulasAnxiousDeniedCenteredness Author:Peter Koestenbaum
“Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.” WellsHardDiesSocialKnowingStageGoes OnAnxietyDisorderPanicSocial AnxietyPanic AttacksKeelAnxiety Disorder Author:Donny Osmond