Guy Finley Quotes

If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it's not a good use of time and energy.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I worry unnecessarily.

I don't waste my time doing my head in about stupid things that don't really matter and don't waste time worrying over nothing.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

Please don't tell me there's no need to worry, it's the only thing I'm any good at.

I worry too much.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.