Anxiety Effects Quotes

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.

Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.

I am so stressed that my dentist told me I am grinding my teeth due to stress. So, every evening, I get shooting pain from my jaw to my head.

I suffered a lot from social anxiety, and being on set was really scary to me. That fear can cause limits in your art and your performance because you're not going all in because there is this little thing in your head.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.

I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

My skin really reacts to stress.

He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.

Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.