High Anxiety Quotes:

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

- Barry Levinson

source: Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

topic: Two, Anxiety, Chance, High Anxiety, Silent Movies

Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover who you are.

- Nick Vujicic

source: Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.200, WaterBrook

topic: Dream, Anxiety, Risk, High Anxiety

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

- Rose Byrne

source: "EXCLUSIVE: Rose Byrne is the Girl Next Door in ‘Neighbors’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 6, 2014.

topic: People, Anxiety, Getting High, Pleasers, High Anxiety

The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

- Helen Keller

topic: Dream, Comfort, Comfort Zone, High Anxiety

I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.

- Jake Abel

topic: Work Out, Anxiety, Drug, Collies, High Anxiety

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

- David Crabb

source: "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 19, 2015.

topic: Art, Thinking, Anxiety, High Anxiety

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

- Dick Cavett

topic: Strong, Anxiety, Ego, Supreme Confidence, High Anxiety

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

- Daniel Goleman

topic: School, Boredom, Anxiety, High Anxiety

At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

- Vance Packard

source: Vance Packard (1991). “The Hidden Persuaders”

topic: Agency, America, People, Probing, Passiveness

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

- Stephen Holden

topic: Heart, Piano, Expectations, High Anxiety

It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously.

- Wilson Bryan Key

topic: Ideas, Anxiety, Levels, High Anxiety