I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can’t worry about it too much.
I worry all the time that I’m going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she’ll remember them.
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don’t have to worry about anything.
I’m at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there’s really nothing else that I worry about.
I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn’t have pushy parents; it wasn’t forced upon me. They just said, ‘See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don’t, don’t worry about it.’ I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.
We’re very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.
I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can’t worry about what everyone’s going to think.
Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.
If you worry about taking risks, don’t do it.
The good thing about Broadway is that you don’t have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don’t worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
I don’t lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I’ve got something coming up, I don’t really worry. It’s not that I’m not ambitious, but I don’t have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.
Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn’t think I had anything to worry about so I decided to go for it. I was very pleased with the results and it was also nice to surprise a few people.
I’m American. I’m eclectic. I’m going to follow my musical passions. And if people don’t like it, and it hurts my legacy, I’m not going to worry about that.
I hear people saying ‘the way the game should be played’. Rubbish. That’s the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.
I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It’s about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.
If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.
I used to worry, ‘I’ve lost my family.’ They hated me for a while, but they’re very resilient.
Speaking of Twitter, I don’t even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don’t have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
I have a pretty fast metabolism, so I don’t really have to worry about getting pudgy. What I try to do when I’m working out is taking in a lot of heavy protein – clean chicken, clean meats.
Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you’re doing, and let the worry go.
I used to worry about what life was for – now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Don’t worry if you don’t complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.
I don’t worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you’ll go insane.
I enjoy life, and I think that’s important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it’s over in a minute, and you’ve just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.
Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he’s never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you’d worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn’t mean to be.
The thing I’d really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare’s Globe. I’d like to walk along that. Don’t worry, I won’t get drunk and fall in.
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I’d write if I didn’t have to worry about offending.
You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else’s freedom and not worry about your own.
I don’t worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
It was a myth that’s often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don’t worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic’s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard.
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
I’m the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.
I try not to worry about what that’s going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that’s when you look really stupid.
Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don’t know and can’t articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.
You live till you die, and that’s the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.
If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.
I believe the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a very large swath of the American population, really wants to imagine that race and racial inequality is something we don’t have to think about anymore, don’t have to worry about anymore.
I’m humble ’cause I think many years ago people say, ‘Well, Alibaba’s terrible company’. And I know we were not that terrible. We’re pretty good; we’re better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.
You don’t worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It’s a cacophony, it’s like a madness I think that’s been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.
When people listen to Jay-Z, they’re working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who’s free. Who doesn’t have to worry about the electricity. But all we’re taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they’re smarter.
