Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

You can drive your own self crazy. You don't have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That's really the thing that gets you.

I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

I'm afraid of me.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

True it is that each of us has only one life - but how many of us 'die a thousand deaths' in fear and nervousness!

Anxiety is your creativity turned into a weapon that you use to beat yourself up. And this is because anxiety is mostly storytelling - repeating poisonous stories that you've inherited from others. It feeds on your fear.

I put enough pressure on myself already - I can sit here and work myself into an anxiety-filled breakdown without worrying what everyone else is going to think.

I'm acutely aware of my anxiety.

I have a tendency to freak myself out.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.

Nothing is worse than what we can imagine.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.