#anxiety

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

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#executives #former #funny #kids #many

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anxiety #blame #fear #fears #hate

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#deal #life #misery #others #overwhelmed

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. ↗

— Laura Linney

#anxiety #fear #just #neurosis #suitcase

And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#anxiety #create #had #i #insides

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#anxiety #concepts #great #job #our

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety. ↗

— Joe Moore

#death #greatest #joy #love #money

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#been #i #illness #like #rudder