William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
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You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
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Clarity is the antidote to anxiety, and therefore clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
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I have been working with people on an individual basis for years to help them break habits and deal with anxiety. I've helped people with everything from fears, phobias, and stress right the way through to eczema - anything that is governed by our psyche and inner psychology.
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People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.
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I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.
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I have anxiety and have had depression in the past.
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A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.
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If you keep dating and keep out there, you keep a higher level of hope, and also, your skills at doing it improve because you're doing it more often, and you are bringing less anxiety to the table.
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When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.
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The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe.
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Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God.
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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
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Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.
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The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
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If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
