Branch Rickey Quotes

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?

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought that if I worried about something enough, it wouldn't happen. I forgot to worry about Parkinson's.

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

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward. It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

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

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.

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.

I don't think looking at things through the prism of fear is going to accomplish anything.

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

I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

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

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

If I think, everything is lost.