#anxiety

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#approaching #conquered #disorder #fans #find

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#anxiety #anyone #convinced #fear #i

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#age #ageing #anxiety #communicates #culture

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#access #anxieties #anxiety #attention #care

The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections of endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#helplessness #loved-ones #sickness #equality

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews. ↗

— Damon Hill

#after #anxiety #celebration #each #exorcism

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Burton

#anxiety #birds #cage #chain #climb

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#creativity #hand #maiden

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#affect #anxiety #birth #experience #first

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#characteristic #common #confront #else #essence