“If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That's a mistake a lot of people make - they think a year is a long time and it's really not.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLongMistakeWorryComedyLong TimeHappeningsStartingThings HappenIf I CouldRelax Author:Christian Finnegan
“I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.” PeopleKnowsFeelsI CanImportantWorryAlive Author:Greg Proops
“I'm always looking for that place, you know, where there's no rednecks, that place where people get along, and I never find it. I went to Australia, right, and I thought Australia was gonna be a groovy, surfnoid, smoke-a-joint wombat, you know? 'G'day mate!' 'No worries!' And it's like Arkansas with a beach. It's a whole country with a 'No Fat Chicks' sticker on it.” PeopleKnowsCountryWholeWorryFatsSmokeBeachAustraliaMatesJointsChicksRedneckStickerArkansasNo WorriesGroovyWombats Author:Greg Proops
“I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingPersonsReasonHappensSongMillionsWorryToo MuchSubjectiveWriting SongsSingle PersonHappens For A Reason Author:Matthew Healy
“Don't worry about what other people are going to say, because they're always going to say something, but, if you're just true to yourself, let that shine through. Don't hide who you really are.” PeopleIfsWorryShiningTrue To Yourself Author:Brittney Griner
“I have often said one of the greatest secrets of missionary work is work! If a missionary works, he will get the Spirit; if he gets the Spirit, he will teach by the Spirit; and if he teaches by the Spirit, he will touch the hearts of the people and he will be happy. There will be no homesickness, no worrying about families, for all time and talents and interests are centered on the work of the ministry. Work, work, work-there is no satisfactory substitute, especially in missionary work.” PeopleIfsHeartSaidSpiritInterestSecretTeachWorryTalentAll TimeSubstitutesMissionaryMinistryAbout FamilyHomesicknessMissionary Work Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.” PeopleKnowsLooksProblemWorrySmileLook At MeNo ProblemI SmileYour SmileJust SmileMy SmileMake You SmileBest SmileJust Keep SmilingMake Me SmileNo WorriesAll SmilesYou Made Me SmileYou Make Me SmileSmile To The WorldBaby SmileHe Makes Me SmileCute SmileMake People SmileSmile Love Author:Etta James
“All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly about the things that scare them and worry them and trouble them. Because those moments of connection between women-when they really decide to be honest with each other about their lives-are some of the best things in life.” PeopleMomentsCharacterWorryTroubleHonestConnectionsCoffeeHonestlyBeing HonestBest ThingsScareThings In LifeMain CharactersBest Things In Life Author:Katherine Center
“In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.” PeopleDifferentSongWorryStageStudiosPerformingConnecting Author:Mary J. Blige
“There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.” PeopleWayWantBookTurnsCultureWinningLeftWorryAcceptanceRevolutionVictoryCapitalismGainsBiggerDefeatSatisfiedReformRevolutionaryRelatedNormDominationBeing AfraidDeclaringBinaryBigger PictureSmall Victories Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.” PeopleWorldSometimesMatterWorryFolksTrackCirclesCombinationOutside World Author:Robin Williams
“The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.” PeopleIfsWayWantWorryAdviceWhat You WantBeing TrueMerit Author:Dean Koontz
“You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.” PeopleWorryAthleteSelfishHarpsBeing Selfish Author:Chris Bosh
“People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.” PeopleEyeKidsFatherWorryFiveRaisedGrandmotherSixtyMy GrandmotherEighty Author:Grace Paley
“I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.” PeopleWritingI CanSongCan DoWorryFocusUselessPerformingTonight Author:Corey Smith
“I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.” PeopleWorryBuying Author:Corey Smith
“Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.” PeopleMindStatesWonderWorryCarHusbandExcitedMy HusbandState Of MindCertificatesNew Car Author:Rett MacPherson
“Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.” PeopleThinkingWorryBeing Yourself Author:Brett Hull
“Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.” PeopleWorryStupidSuicideThreatenedObnoxious Author:Faina Ranevskaya
“If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.” PeopleIfsAnswersWorryAsking Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'” PeopleShouldTryingDoneFilmHalfWorryMarriedWarningGreat ExperiencesWarning Signs Author:Kate Beckinsale
“It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.” PeopleWorryMorbid Author:Terry Pratchett
“I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, "I really hate you." And they say it in the nicest possible way and I accept it. It's the people who come up to you and say, "I really liked your character. Man, he was right!" Those are the ones you worry about.” PeopleMenWayCharacterHateAcceptingWorryCome UpHate YouUp To You Author:Stephen Lang
“What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.” PeopleThinkingWayWantNeedsTryingStuffWorryAccessBarriersRight WayDistributionPublishVirusesSteam Author:Gabe Newell
“Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.” PeopleKnowsTryingMovingBreakWorryKnow HowQuittingGod KnowsBreak Out Author:Joel Osteen
“Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsWaitingWorryFireDoorsStreetsTvsMachinesArmyScaredLondonBreathing Author:Charlie Brooker
“When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any money, you probably won't become famous, and you will spend your whole life locked up in a room by yourself worrying about how to survive.” PeopleThinkingWantWholeYoungRoomsWorryRewardsWhole LifeNovelistsLockedLocked Up Author:Paul Auster
“While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have, are worried. They're a very stressed people. It seems to be a very essential component of the national psyche.” PeopleSeemsWorryEssentialsWorriedBritainComponentsStressed Author:Jonathan Meades
“Bill is about moving forward on a long overdue provision to protect vulnerable paid farm workers in Alberta to the same degree that they are protected in every other province in the country, and we feel confident that once people see how the bill actually applies to the regular family farm, they will see that a lot of the concerns were perhaps misplaced. And it's unfortunate that we created a situation that made people worry; that was not ever our intention.” PeopleFeelsLongMadeCountryMovingSituationWorryProtectDegreesConcernPaidBillsIntentionWorkersMoving ForwardVulnerableFarmsProtectedUnfortunateProvisionProvincesMisplacedOverdueAlbertaFamily Farms Author:Rachel Notley
“I think people like to have everything be perfectly morally clear. When the lines get blurred it worries them. I'm not worried. I don't think the men are either. But I think that the videos bring up feelings in people that they don't want to feel. Sometimes people get really mad. That's okay.” PeopleThinkingMenWantFeelsSometimesFeelingsLinesWorryClearHe ManOkayMadVideoWorriedGet Real Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I think most interesting people are socially awkward even if they're able to hide it most of the time. If Henry Darger hadn't been a shut-in would we love him so much? Any act that we do in private is amazing and profound because it is private. You don't have to worry about being socially awkward in the privacy of your own home... well, unless I show up.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsShowsHomeAbleInterestingWorryProfoundPrivacyAwkwardMost InterestingSocially Awkward Author:Laurel Nakadate
“Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.” PeopleFirstsEasyWorryCrazyDeserveClimateResponseClimate Change Author:Margaret D. Klein
“GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the specter of famine, people are free to fetishize heirloom tomatoes and worry about the provenance of what sits on their dinner tables.” PeopleWorldWorryCenturyTablesDinnerAgricultureFamineSave The WorldTomatoesDinner TableGmosHeirlooms Author:Annalee Newitz
“If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinction in the long term. Would the life on Earth be radically different? Of course we can't say for sure, but I think a lot of it would look familiar. Like a lot of people, I worry a lot about whether marine mammals would survive, especially whales. Ocean acidification is one of the major killers in climate change events, and that makes the ocean a very inhospitable place.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksLongDifferentEarthCoursesTermWorryEventsReturnOceanMajorsMassClimateClimate ChangeFamiliarLong TermReasonableKillersMarineExtinctionWhalesMammalsMass ExtinctionOcean Acidification Author:Annalee Newitz
“The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingEnoughWorryHugeBandNot Worrying Author:Luke Temple
“My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll let you write YA or fantasy or what-have-you is just absurd, but we do, because the presumption is that they're closed to that sort of thing. You're offering an MFA in creative writing? Teach people how to write well, worry about that part, let the writers come up with the stories.” PeopleWritingWellsStoriesReadingTeachWorryFantasyCreativeHorrorProgramCome UpAbsurdSellingOfferingCreative WritingPresumption Author:Tod Goldberg
“The love is so powerful that both people have to surrender. I think that's the funny thing about dating somebody for the first time, it's kind of a question of who wears the pants, or who's gonna text you first, how much am I supposed to put myself out there, and it makes you feel a little bit crazy. But at the end of the day, it's not about that. And if it's the right person you don't have to worry about that.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsFirstsKindLittlesPersonsEndsBitsLove IsPowerfulWorryCrazyLittle BitFirst TimeDatingSurrenderThe End Of The DayPantsFunny ThingsRight Person Author:Zella Day
“My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk.” PeopleThinkingWritingMadeWorryApproachDrunk Author:Erin McKeown
“I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It's the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.” PeopleWorldWayMovingNextWorryFiguresFineDifficultyFolksHardestOne WayHardest Times Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I don't worry too much about what people think about my image, but I think I am pretty polite. My colleagues say I am a gentleman in my dealings with them, even when I disagree. I am difficult because I won't back off on things like the pay raise and the anti-terrorism bill. I'm not a go-along kind of guy. I do respect the institution. I do respect my colleagues. But I didn't go to Washington to make friends. That's not where my friends are.” PeopleThinkingKindGuyDifficultPayWorryToo MuchMy FriendsRaisesInstitutionsBillsTerrorismGentlemanDisagreeColleaguesPoliteDealingsI Am PrettyAnti Terrorism Author:Russ Feingold
“The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that.” PeopleWayStatesProblemAgePastUnitedWorryUnited StatesSittingDamageAustraliaInfrastructureExplosivesLaptopsChileGridsVestsSomaliaPerth Author:Ted Koppel
“I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.” PeopleWarFeelingsNightWorryMiddleWake UpTiredWakingRejectedI'm TiredMiddle Of The Night Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Patanjali said that when you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. Steadfast means you never slip. I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMeanSaidWorrySupportCreaturesJudgmentHatredMissionsHarmCeaseSlipsLiving CreaturesSteadfastYour PresenceAbstention Author:Wayne Dyer
“You can't be afraid to speak the truth. If you're speaking truthfully - no matter if you're White, Black, Hispanic, Asian - if it's the truth, it's the truth! And if that's what you're telling, you have no reason to be fearful, or, worry about people trying to diffuse what you're doing. Because, if you're speaking the truth, they can't beat the truth.” PeopleIfsTryingMatterReasonSpeakBlackWhiteWorryBeatsNo ReasonFearfulAsianSpeak The TruthHispanic Author:Warren Ballentine
“I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.” PeopleUsedWorryHeardTwentiesInsaneTeenagerSchizophreniaSchizophrenic Author:Brad Warner
“Sometimes people pick up pet worries that they'll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking about what that means, one of the definitions of insanity is that you lose your ability to communicate to anybody because your frames of reference have become so different from the rest of the world that you can't communicate anymore.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanDifferentSometimesBigsLosesAbilityWorryPicksDefinitionsCommunicateInsanityPetFrame Of ReferenceAbility To CommunicateDefinition Of Insanity Author:Brad Warner
“I don't want to judge anyone's sex life - but I worry that those are the only options we are giving to our young people.” PeopleWantGivingYoungSexWorryJudging Author:Christopher Rice
“Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.” PeopleIfsWorryRocksBecomingAssNot InterestedGrossClownSusceptibleIndie RockWorrying About Money Author:Justin Vernon
“I think clearly Europe has a lot to worry about. When I was working at the CIA - and I always worked with a lot of European services - they always were very condescending toward the United States, saying that we are so racist vis-à-vis blacks and other people.” PeopleThinkingStatesUnitedWorryUnited StatesEuropeRacistCiaCondescending Author:Michael Scheuer
“People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me: I'm 115 pounds and I grew up without money. To me, I'm rich because I don't have to worry about paying rent. I don't think about money now.” PeopleThinkingLooksMeanEyeWorryRichGrewGrew UpPoundsRelativeLook At MePaying Rent Author:Bradford Cox