In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.
I hate that there'll be moments in my day and I'll be patting down my legs trying to find my phone. I hate how anxious it makes me feel when I don't have it. When I go on holiday, or I go back to Australia, I put my phone in my bag and I don't worry about it; I think differently and I feel less stressed.
I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.
People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn't blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I'm a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.
I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape.
Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.
Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.
The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?
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