Panic Quotes - Page 4

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

It's never too early to panic.

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.

If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.

What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.

When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall asleep, and then when she woke up she would feel another onrush of agitated happiness, which was a lot like panic. She wished she could grab the happiness and mash it into a ball and hoard it and gloat over it, but she couldn't. It just ran around all over the place, disrupting everything.

Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.