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“My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.”

Has Beens Whole Voice Anxiety Whole Life Squeezing

Author:Shania Twain

“Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we're focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide.”

Voice Anxiety Stress Focused Guides Disconnected

Book:Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose

Source: Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose

“Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.”

“In nearly everything I write, I am like a ventriloquist, throwing my voice into my characters, animating them by the slightest twitch as I register my anxieties and alarms. This is true even in my comedies.”

Writing Character Voice Comedy Anxiety Throwing Alarms Register

Author:Norman Lock

“Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then learned that songwriting and studying the voice actually pair with a lot of troubles that I had expressing myself, being vulnerable, trusting other people, trusting myself, calming anxiety. It became a life instructor of sorts and that is what kept me engaged with it.”

People Want Voice Study Trouble Anxiety Training Program Vulnerable Settling Engaged Pairs Songwriting Vocal Perfectionist Calming Instructors Training Programs

Author:Alyson Stoner

“I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.”

Ifs Two Three Voice Hours Months One Day Anxiety Provoking Garage Three Months

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.”

World Should Firsts Wells Body Voice Silence This World Drink Solitude Speech Anxiety Should Have Possession Tone Modesty Monk Food And Drink

Author:Saint Basil

“The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.”

Giving Order Voice Office Anxiety Fats Chairs Knives Sweat Rulers Butchers Arses Piglet

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.”

Parent Voice Behinds Childhood Security Source Wall Anxiety Filled Panic Bedroom Humming Bedroom Wall

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”

People Needs Should Soul Hate Voice Realizing Opinion Particular Anxiety Criticism Blame Hate You Penetrate

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.”

Ifs Kind Said Enjoy Voice Focus Anxiety Limitation

Author:Rosanne Cash

“How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.”

Ifs Want Giving Moments Desire Suffering Voice Healing Comfort Conflict Anxiety Ambition Hearing What You Want Screens Projection Alleviate

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.”

Giving Wells Country House Force Voice Moral Support Fire Anxiety Contradiction Giving Voice Moral Support

Author:Charles Kennedy