“I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.” IfsThinkingTryingYearsHumansImportantReasonMightHappensThreeHuman BeingsBehindsWorryAliveWeekYears AgoProcrastinationStaying AliveSavanna Author:James Surowiecki
“A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge to do a better job of accepting my bad habits - to stop worrying about failing to be the person I used to imagine I could be.” YearsKindPersonsDifferentJobsUsedAcceptingWorryImagineFailingHabitYears AgoResolutionDifferent KindsNew YearPledgeBad HabitsBetter JobsStop WorryingNew Year's Resolutions Author:Mel White
“In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River.” IfsYearsMadeNightWaterWorryHappenedYears AgoRiversLet MeSafetyAngryStormChineseLakesGoddessUnwillingPilgrimManuscriptsKashmirSanskrit Author:Aurel Stein
“My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.” YearsLongRunningEnergyWorryLong TimeYears AgoThirtyThirty YearsTime And EnergyReally LongRunning Out Of TimeTime Is Running OutTime Running Out Author:Dean Kamen
“Some dozens of years ago, there was a debate conducted between people insisting that "this loaf of bread must be redistributed," and the others who said "instead of worrying about redistributing it, cutting differently, let's make it bigger." A third possibility was not imagined: that the loaf may be shrinking. But it is now a genuine possibility. It is even acting upon already, like in the case of the American invasion of Afghanistan and of Iraq in order to secure the supply of petrol for the Americans addicted to gas-guzzling cars.” PeopleYearsMaySaidOrderActingCasesWorryCuttingCarPossibilityYears AgoThirdsBiggerIraqDebateGenuineBreadSecureGasAfghanistanDozenInvasionShrinkingInsistingPetrol Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.” YearsTechnologyWorryYears AgoCurrentsMedicalReformAddressesPaceMedicareModernizationMedical Technology Author:John Sununu
“...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows where, was sealed up there, and lay, like a lake, placidly between its banks.” KnowsYearsBookEndsStoriesDreamReadingHeavenRoomsWorryHappenedLandReturnAnxietyShotsYears AgoTwentiesTablesMovedLaysDrawingLakesFascinatingGood BookUnrealHasteDiningDining RoomsCascade Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?” InspirationalYearsRememberTurnsEnergyWorryLetting GoWasteYears AgoAccountsWork OutStop WorryingNot Worrying Author:Dale Carnegie
“I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.” YearsPersonsHelpingEyeSchoolEarthScienceForgetWorryConditionsStudentsCoupleYears AgoDoctorsTreatsLuckPatientMedicalHealBest TimesMedical School Author:Joseph Murray