Status Anxiety Quotes

#1. Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Alain De Botton

#2. Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

Charlie Brooker

#3. As the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

Alain De Botton

#4. These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in which reputations are edgily tended and a man can be brought low by status anxiety. Poets, or at least this poet, are as earthbound as the rest.

Ian McEwan

#5. Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Paul Fussell

#6. The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

Alain De Botton

#7. Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!

Dwayne Johnson

#8. Success with Honor

Allen Meece

#9. It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.

Tiger Woods

#10. After death there is nothing.

Seneca The Younger

#11. The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it keeps you fresh. There's never any fear of getting stale in your performance.

Kevin Chamberlin

#12. A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar.

Eloisa James

#13. If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

Leo Buscaglia

#15. The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

Judith Martin

#16. I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

Hans Vestberg

#17. Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo.

Kate Levinson

#18. To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

Soren Kierkegaard

#19. ...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.

Zak Ebrahim

#20. One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority.

Nicolas Chamfort

#21. There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

John Calvin

#22. Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Megan Fox

#23. The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.

Linda M. Godwin

#24. In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#25. No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

Michael Thomas Ford