Anxious Quotes

In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort.

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

I know the Lord is anxious to respond to us if we will only turn to him.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places.

How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?

I get anxious but worry doesn't really do any good. If something is broken or in trouble, you've got to bend down, pick it up and fix it. Worry just makes us get wrinkles. So try not worrying.

I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.

No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

I'm not anxious, I'm high-strung. I just decided that's the difference for me.

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you're probably not doing them right.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

If you want to be anxious today, pretend you're in control.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.