Bill Bryson Quotes

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got control over 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got no control over 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying.

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

I'm a worry-wart, I'd say.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

A film will be a hit or a flop in spite of my worrying about it.

I'm always on the worrying side.

I am a worrier.

I'm such a worrier.

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

Worrying is a necessary part of life.