“Worry is not productive; it’s a kind of procrastination.” — Tim Kreider, “Cycle of Fear,” New York Times (02012-05-07)
Tag: worry
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“Help conquer the IQ shortage: worry less and think more.” — Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers
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“Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.” — Mary Schmich, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young,” Chicago Tribune (1997-06-01)
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“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.” — Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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“What does one do when a madman suggests an appealing course of action? One worries—but probably goes along with it.” — Charles Sheffield, Summertide
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“God knows, there’s enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.” — Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity
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“Even if life as a whole is meaningless, perhaps that’s nothing to worry about. Perhaps we can recognise it and just go on as before.” — Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean?
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“When the situation is hopeless, there’s nothing to worry about.” — Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang
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“We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.” — Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” — Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship