#worrying

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. ↗

— Chris Ware

#almost #children #concepts #dismiss #engaging

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

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#future #our #past #present #spending

The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born. ↗

— Eric Holder

#against #american #american citizens #arms #become

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. ↗

— Gallagher

#art #art form #attention #bringing #developing

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#fame #i #posthumous #sits #those

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. ↗

— Maya Lin

#because #competition #explore #exploring #fun

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#gets #instead #lack #lying #sleep

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects. ↗

— Lily Collins

#about #because #being #cool #focus

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#businessman #countless #go #having #i