#neurotic

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting. ↗

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#comes #complain #defend #her #illness

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cocky #discuss #discussion #know #letting

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#comes #composed #everything #founded #great

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#am #changed #confidence #could #criticism

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#deeply #i #neurotic #sure #thing

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#both #characters #first #i #i am

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. ↗

— Karl Abraham

#against #considerable #considerable number #intense #neurotic

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ↗