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“Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.”

Long Real Results Progress Periods Anxiety Anxious Beginners Long Periods Of Time

Author:Mary Beth McKenzie

“In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt.”

World Hours Wealth Results Anxiety West Ill Debt Ill Health Health Wealth

Book:How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto

Source: How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto

“When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.”

Kind Long Results Technology Anxiety All Kinds New Technology

Book:Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.”

May Happiness Success Fall Results Worry Our Lives Failing Danger Anxiety Capable Ideals Dignity Our Society Modest Conform Pernicious Dignity And Respect

Author:Alain de Botton

“If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.”

Ifs Life Life Is Difficult Results Cases Bears Anxiety Burden Unhappy This Life Deprived Apprehension

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.”

Care Desire Causes Results Effort Anxiety Pressure Photographer Diligence Suspended Degenerates

Author:Paul Caponigro

“Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?”

“I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When we're concrete about our writing time, it alleviates that thin constant feeling of anxiety that writers have - we're barbecuing hot dogs, riding a bike, sailing out in the bay, shopping for shoes, even helping a sick friend, but somewhere nervously at the periphery of our perception we know we belong somewhere else - at our desk!”

Source: Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft

“The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.”

People Want Age Today Values Humanity Results Ignorance Anxiety Significance Sage Elders Beneficial Degradation

Author:Sathya Sai Baba