William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

• Humans
• Anxiety
• Scylla
• Charybdis

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• 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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Know
  • Anxiety
  • Nervous

• You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Fear
  • Need
  • Anxiety

• 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.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • Anxiety

• 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.

  

  Keith Barry
  • People
  • Help
  • Stress

• 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.

  

  Alexei Mordashov
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Max Winkler
  • Movie
  • Anxiety

• I have anxiety and have had depression in the past.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Past
  • Depression
  • Anxiety

• 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.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Anxiety

• 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.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Hope
  • Anxiety
  • Dating

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Doubt

• The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Universe
  • Fate
  • Anxiety

• Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Anxiety

• Anxiety increases in direct ratio and proportion as man departs from God.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • God
  • Anxiety

• 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.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • May
  • Parents
  • Fear

• For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Die
  • Humans
  • Changes

• The purpose of computers is human freedom.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Freedom
  • Purpose
  • Humans

• Humans are queer. A man, living and well, is ignored or criticized. Dying or dead, he is noticed and praised. Death sheds a temporary glamour over the poorest soul. It is as though in dying, he has accomplished something which life never gave him.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Life
  • Humans
  • Criticized

• Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.

  

  Joe Greene

• I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

  

  Bob Brown
  • Community
  • Democracy

• There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Sex

• That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.

  

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
  • Style
  • Leadership
  • Aggressive

• Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

  

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky
  • Humans
  • Anxiety
  • Scylla