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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

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

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

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.

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.

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