“Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.” PeopleMayFactsUsedTermCreativeDivineAnxietyMadnessPaidGreekInsecuritySensitivityDistinguishedCreative PeopleHigh Prices Author:Rollo May
“Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.” LooksPurposeFoundWaitingTermCuttingGenerationsSonKingsAnxietyDaughterEmptyGuiltCombinationAnticipationSovereignRoyalAffectionateBritish HistorySon And DaughterEldestEldest Son Author:David Cannadine
“The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.” EnoughMotivationTermAcceptanceAnxietyPerformingDesperationPositive Motivation Author:Phoebe Snow
“Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in terms of storytelling. That being said, on the day, basically what you're trying to get yourself into an open place. And if the character is in a state of anxiety or vulnerability, you try to find some touchstone.” IfsKnowsTryingSaidImportantStatesCharacterTermSceneAnxietyAccomplishStorytellingVulnerabilityCatchingPitchingTouchstones Author:Susan Sarandon
“There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.” PeopleFeelsTermEventsHigherAnxietyMassEvidenceTraumaUnpredictable Author:Michael Helm
“Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of anxiety, excitement, or depression in terms of physiological factors involving levels of serotonin, adrenalin, or blood sugar. To say that the characterization of thinking has a normative function that is irreducible to neurophysiological processing is not to say that our extant classification of the forms of thinking is incorrigible.” ThinkingTermAnxietyEverydayPsychologicalExcitementManiaCharacterizationPsychoanalytic Author:Ray Brassier
“Sovereignty is the term the Bible uses to describe God's perfect control and management of the universe. He preserves and governs every element. He's continually involved with all created things, directing them to act in a way that fulfills his divine purpose. That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.” PeopleWorldTryingPurposeUniverseTermRealizingPerfectFailingDivineAnxietyManagementFreakSovereigntyControl Freak Author:Max Lucado
“Hopefully, there isn't any adjustment at all in terms of what I am doing and what I'm preparing. Obviously, there's going to be goose bumps. There's gonna be an adrenaline rush. I want that excitement. I want that anxiety. Because that lets you know that you're passionate about what you do and that this is important. I'd much rather be in that environment than not.” ImportantTermEnvironmentAnxietyPassionateHopefullyExcitementGeeseAdrenaline Author:Beth Mowins
“I think, a general anxiety, after the end of the Cold War, to find a new basis for affirming American nationhood. And perhaps another, in plainer terms, is the lure of the approaching Abraham Lincoln bicentennial has been made a resurgence in interest in Lincoln.” ThinkingWarTermInterestColdAnxietyCold WarAffirming Author:Allen C. Guelzo
“From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.” YearsMeanChildrenTermEmotionFantasyAchieveAnxietyEverydayFamiliarFrustrationEveryday LifeCatharsisWild ThingsTaming Author:Maurice Sendak
“The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents are unable to function effectively in the parenting role show more anxiety and depression, as well as sleep and health problems, than those whose parents have a strong support network and solid inner resources to rely on.” WellsChildrenLongImportantShowsProblemKidsStrongParentTermSleepRolesSupportDegreesAnxietyResourcesFunctionLong TermRelyAdaptationSurvivingIndicatorsHealth Problems Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition
“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.” PersonsPurposeIndividualSocialTermAbilityEnvironmentAchieveCircumstancesDegreesAnxietyOvercomingIndependentRewardsPunishmentContemporaryEnjoymentAutonomyReward And PunishmentSocial EnvironmentContemporary Life Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.” ShouldEndsHomeSchoolTermHoursReturnAnxietyEducationalHatedUnschooling Author:Winston Churchill
“In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.” GivingPersonsStatesRealityFormFearTermAcceptingCreativeGreaterAnxietyFindingsCapacityProfitSatisfactionAbsenceLoyaltyPsychologicalPermanentMaturityTensionSatisfyingReceivingSerenityContributingPseudoUnchangeable Author:William C. Menninger
“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
“I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.” FeltTermAnxietySurvivalPlentyMaking MoneyLivelihood Author:Leonard Baskin