“I think we should be worried about the fact that we have become, as a society, very focused on the way people look, the way they dress. I do think we should worry about that because we should be worried about content. We should be worried about ideas. We should not be putting form over function.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldLooksIdeasFactsFormWorryFunctionDressesFocusedWorried Author:Christy Clark
“Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalSportsWorryFocusConcentrating Author:Bobby Jones
“You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.” PeopleWayKindIdeasCharacterWorrySci Fi Author:Mark Millar
“Enjoy your relationship with your boyfriend and don't worry about the people or situations you dream about. Once you wake up, they're over; let them go.” PeopleDreamEnjoySituationWorryWake UpOur RelationshipYour Boyfriend Author:Mallory Ortberg
“When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.” PeopleIfsWayBodySleepWorryTomorrowThirdsTonightInsomniaCatchingMantrasCatching UpNot Sleeping Author:Shelby Harris
“I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.” PeopleCareersWorryRiskFindingsPerceptionDifficultyEmploymentTenurePhdsHigh Risk Author:Louis Menand
“I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that. But, I do think that it may save fewer souls if people can't pay attention.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindMaySoulPayAttentionWorryLimitsPay AttentionFewer Author:Edward Hirsch
“I don't care about Donald Trump himself. I care and I worry about the very big base that supports him because this kind of language would have been absolutely nonexistent maybe 15, 20 - by the way, I follow the American elections, and I have never seen someone who is that offensive. I have seen people who are stupid. But stupid and offensive, that's new.” PeopleWayKindHas BeensBigsCareLanguageWorrySupportStupidTrumpElectionDon't CareI Don't CareI CareOffensiveAmerican Elections Author:Bassem Youssef
“I think that's something that investment banks have worried about for a long time and are continuing to worry about, but it's not an easy solution when you have lots of people betting the company's money, how do you really allocate those risks? How do you make sure that the people that take the risks are feeling the risks in an appropriate kind of fashion?” PeopleThinkingKindLongFeelingsEasyCompanyWorryRiskFashionLong TimeSolutionsInvestmentWorriedAppropriateContinuingBetting Author:Robert F. Engle
“As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.” PeopleThinkingMightForgetWorryConcernedBusyForget ItToo Busy Author:Michael LeBoeuf
“People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.” PeopleIfsWayShouldWorryDeedsRadiantSanctify Author:Meister Eckhart
“I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look at the thing itself. And if they're supportive of something that's sexist or racist, then it's a bad thing, but it's not because they're supportive of it that it's a bad thing.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldLooksWorryWasteMotiveRacistBad ThingsWasting TimeSupportiveSexist Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God, what are people going to think, then you're not writing comedy. You have to write what makes you laugh, and then the world hopefully laughs as well.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWritingWellsWorryLaughingComedySittingHopefullySitting AroundBe ConfidentMake You LaughWriting Comedy Author:David Mandel
“When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s, '60s and '70s.” PeopleForceWorryLaborInflationLabor Force Author:Michael Hudson
“People are putting their money into treasuries because they worry that the risk of putting their money into the bond market, the stock market or even the money markets is very high.” PeopleWorryRiskTreasuryBond Market Author:Michael Hudson
“I do a little bit of hand-holding on the big cases. You know, like health care, I'll call over and say, "Don't worry. We've got it under control. We have the best people working on it. We're on schedule. Stay calm." So, those kinds of things.” PeopleKnowsKindLittlesHandsBigsCareBitsCasesWorryLittle BitCalmHealth CareSchedulesHolding OnStay CalmHand Holding Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“I have gotten better at being patient and sitting with discomfort. Before I would worry and try to fix an issue and force circumstances to change or try to change people's minds sooner than was realistic. Now I wait and trust that everything passes and time really does heal everything.” PeopleTryingMindDoeForceWaitingWorryIssuesCircumstancesSittingPatientHealRealisticDiscomfort Author:China Forbes
“The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.” PeopleWritingWorryFieldsIdealsGenreWorkshopsAnthropologistsWriting Workshop Author:Sandra Cisneros
“It is important to stop being critical and judging ideas as good or bad because I think if somebody doesn't have a lot of experience you worry their idea is going to be bad, it's not going to be good enough, if not going to be active enough and so you can start to think critically about people's suggestions or what they bring to it but once you get out of that and think whatever they come up with is the right thing right now and so I'm just going to build on it just makes everything so much easier and better.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantIdeasEnoughWorryJudgingEasierRight NowCome UpCriticalActiveBe GoodRight ThingGood EnoughSuggestions Author:Gillian Jacobs
“If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.” PeopleIfsThinkingActingWorryCommit Author:Ray Liotta
“There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantHardSeemsHappensWorryPhotographyEconomicsDollarsLikesNow And Then Author:Garry Winogrand
“I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.” PeopleMayTalkingWorryCome UpMotiveAirportsUlterior Motive Author:Rob Lowe
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.” PeopleMatterEnoughWorryFiguresAnxietyBreathsMy FriendshipMatter Of Time Author:Shauna Niequist
“What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.” PeopleProblemSeemsWorryCreaturesCapitalismHistoricalWestExtremesFocusedFatsConsumersParadiseConsumptionConsumerismConsumingOverconsumptionAffluentAmbivalent Author:Rodney Clapp
“The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six.” PeopleWayMayLongBookProblemAbleSchoolReadingEasyEffortWorryWonderfulWeekCollegeSixPagesHigh SchoolGraduatesJoyceUlyssesSeminars Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.” PeopleWorryPersonalityConcernThirdsDeterminedMoodFourthSecond Place Author:Daniel Kahneman
“Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated. And people tend to be atomized - you get down to a society based on social units based on an atom - an atomic element - which is a person and their computer. Not a society that is going to be able to function freely and democratically. The tendency is there; it doesn't have to be, but its something to worry about.” PeopleThinkingPersonsAbleTogetherPoliticalSocialWorryPlansElementsComputerOrganizationFunctionUnionsTendenciesAtomsUnitsGet Together Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think the best advice I got was to not worry about what other people would think while you were working on your first draft. Focus on getting it out of your head. You can always edit the manuscript later.” PeopleThinkingFirstsWorryFocusAdviceEditsManuscriptsBest Advice Author:Eden Robinson
“My main worry about referendums is that you are taking a very complicated political question that requires knowledge of a bunch of background facts in the social sciences and you're handing that question to people who don't know those facts and in fact, are systematically misinformed about them.” PeopleKnowsFactsPoliticalSocialWorryComplicatedBackgroundsBunchSocial ScienceReferendums Author:Jason Brennan
“I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayYearsLooksLittlesSchoolIndividualStrongProcessChanceWorrySuccessfulInformationHigh SchoolVoteForgottenRationalBeing SuccessfulVotersIncentivesSkepticalCivics Author:Jason Brennan
“We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.” PeopleNeedsStillsBeautifulYoungCulturePovertyWorryShareHavensPagesSittingTablesFilledRageProseConsiderationContemplatingHouseholdOppressedExquisiteDickensSitting Still Author:Frederick Busch
“It's one of the reasons [Vladimir Putin invitation to U.S] why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information - in administrations have said that Donald [Trump] is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It's comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.” PeopleSaidReasonFacesWorrySecurityInformationTrumpRepublicanThreatChiefsAdministrationOfficialsCommentNational SecurityInvitationsCommandersPutinCommander In Chief Author:Hillary Clinton
“It is essential that America's word be good. And so I know that this campaign has caused some questioning and worries on the part of many leaders across the globe. I've talked with a number of them. But I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantAmericaNumbersLeaderWorryEssentialsMajorityBe GoodCampaignsQuestioningGlobesBehalfOur Words Author:Hillary Clinton
“So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?"” PeopleThinkingWorryParalyzed Author:Miriam Shor
“The thing I would worry a little bit about is Donald Trump owes about $650 million to banks, including the Bank of China. I'm not sure he could stand up so tough to the people who have loaned him money.” PeopleLittlesBitsMillionsWorryTrumpLittle BitToughIncludingChinaNot Sure Author:Tim Kaine
“My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.” PeopleKnowsWritingMeanFunAbilityWorryImpossibleSingingKnackForte Author:Petra Haden
“I've got wonderful people I get to work with, and I'm trying to focus on that, instead of worrying about, Aw, who doesn't want to work with me? You focus on the ones who do.” PeopleWantTryingWorryFocusWonderful Author:Molly Shannon
“I worry very much that people won't like it, or will think it's simply silly. But I have a post-it note above my desk that says "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" And if I weren't afraid, I would do a poetry collection.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorryNotesSillyPostsCollectionsDesksPost It Notes Author:Theodora Goss
“You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.” PeopleWorryPleasePleasing OthersPlease Yourself Author:Janet Jackson
“It's one thing for me to tell people not to worry. It's another thing entirely to quote Matthew 6, where Jesus says, "Why do you worry? The birds of the air, the flowers of the field..." He says, "I tell you, do not worry."” PeopleJesusWorryOne ThingAirFieldsFlowerBirdMatthew Author:Max Lucado
“Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.” PeopleWalksWorryNotionPerformersParanoid Author:Charlie Brooker
“With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm [used in New York City to score teachers], I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator.” PeopleProblemJobsUsedValuesNumbersCitiesWorryTeacherNew YorkExamplePersonalityModelsTestsMental HealthMeaningfulOutcomesScoreRacistNew York CityHiringAlgorithmsHealth ProblemsGeneratorRecidivism Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I didn't know how to check other people's feeds. When I started Instagram, it was just me posting! But then at some point, like eight months ago, I realized I could see what other people were sharing. It was so exciting and so fun, but it was like I'd already gotten into the rhythm of sharing and not worrying about what it was like compared to other accounts. I think that was kind of protective, in a way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayKindFunWorryKnow HowMonthsAccountsExcitingEightI RealizedChecksRhythmProtectiveInstagramNot Worrying Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” PeopleFeelsShouldMindLooksNatureWorryFlowerShould HaveComplexesArtificial IntelligenceArtificialInferiorsInferiorityInferiority Complex Author:Alan Kay
“The way young people are joining communities online, and agreeing and separating themselves and creating their own facts about things like vaccination, is worrying.” PeopleWayFactsYoungCommunityWorryCreatingOnlineJoiningSeparatingVaccinations Author:will.i.am
“Every once in a while someone says, 'You can't really learn anything, if you're really a writer then you wouldn't need to do it.' But I think what people need is the sense of not being alone. They go to MFA programs to be part of a community of people who care, and then you start caring about your friend who is trying to edit a magazine and your other friend who is stuck in the middle of her poem. There you have all kinds of things to worry about besides your own success.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsTryingKindCareCommunityWorryMiddleProgramCaringStuckAll KindsMagazinesWho CaresEditsStuck In The Middle Author:Alice Mattison
“For those of us who worry more about working people than about windfall profits for oil companies, it may net out. A better question is: what does it do to our economy if we manage to overheat the earth? This summer's drought provides a small taste.” PeopleIfsMayDoeEarthCompanyWorryEconomyTasteSummerProfitOilManageDroughtOil Companies Author:Bill McKibben
“To me the analogy [to climate change] is... doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says "oh, your life would be happier if you ate a different diet and exercised" people pay no attention.” PeopleIfsDifferentWould BePayAttentionWorryDoctorsClimateClimate ChangeDietsAnalogiesCholesterol Author:Bill McKibben
“"Just give your life to us and stop worrying about things," is what Obama's message is, and people don't want to do that.” PeopleWantGivingWorryMessagesStop Worrying Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We were a spiritual family. My mother always told me, 'People hated Jesus Christ, so why should you worry about them?' Once she put it in that perspective, I was like, 'You're right, Ma.'” PeopleShouldSpiritualMotherJesusChristWorryLike YouPerspectiveJesus ChristHatedSpiritual Family Author:Anthony Anderson