Quotes About Performance Anxiety

#1. We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Esther Perel

#2. I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

George Murray

#3. I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

Julia Stiles

#4. Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Scott Stossel

#5. Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

Natalie Imbruglia

#6. Well, Dr. Elpinoy will never admit it, but he suffers from performance anxiety-"
"Oh, shut up, you old cad," Elpinoy said, finally uncrossing his arms.

Lia Habel

#7. It is a fact - I say this from experience - that being severely anxious is depressing. Anxiety can impede your relationships, impair your performance, constrict your life, and limit your possibilities.

Scott Stossel

#8. There as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose it's meaning if it were not balanced by sadness- Carl Jung

Jessica Shirvington

#9. Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know.

Tim Gallwey

#10. Thus, his school performance would now be affected by a combination of inattention, anxiety, family disorganization, and motivational factors, resulting in further deterioration.

Katharina Manassis

#11. I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden ... name things as I find them.

Charles Dudley Warner

#12. The devices meant to float at sea and capture the waves' power have been destroyed in short order by . . . the waves. "they've all been smashed up in storms," Challenor said, shaking his head.

Susan Casey

#13. When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself
nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#14. Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

Therese Of Lisieux

#15. I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Gertrude Stein

#16. It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Fran Lebowitz

#18. It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety
not even joy.

Lillian Gish

#19. When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to feel these doubts, fears and anxieties and most people when this happens they don't understand why and they let that paralyze them.

John Assaraf

#20. My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Richard Lewis

#21. Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It'll be time to start a Web site soon, where you'll type out everything in one huge paragraph.

David Wong

#22. You can only hurt a person so much and then he doesn't feel the pain anymore. A hard man can take a kicking and not whine about it.

John Fenton

#23. Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

Christina Stead