Anxiety Inducing Quotes

#1. There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

Richard Saul Wurman

#3. Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

Oliver Burkeman

#4. I take positives out of negatives all the time.

David Wright

#5. I think the thing that I most deplore about American writing ... is a lack of craftsmanship. It comes right down to this - the lack of absolute love for language, the lack of sitting down and working a good idea into a gem of an idea.

Harper Lee

#6. The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

Michael Dirda

#7. I think they need to remove the general. He is unfit for the position he is being called upon to serve, precisely because he's become a liability. He's become a weapon our enemies will use against us.

James Zogby

#8. We don't judge people when we feel good about ourselves.

Brene Brown

#9. Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

Aldrich Ames

#10. It is my belief that when all the evidence is taken into account, rather than just a prejudicial subset, the picture that emerges will be more revealing of the underlying reality.

Gary Taubes