Vannevar Bush Quotes

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

I've learned that I can be calm during important points.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

We'll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we'll just tell fear it can't drive. Sometimes we'll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, 'Enough. No words.' We're going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

I just focus on taking a deep breath, staying calm, and not trying to make the situation bigger than it is.

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I don't really let the pressure get to me.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What's the worst thing that could happen as a result of this? Will this matter in five years? Your answers should put a stop to cataclysmic thinking.