Scott Stossel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.
-- Scott Stossel

#Anxiety #Misery #Easy
To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.
-- Scott Stossel

#Ducks #People #Paddling
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflexâ€”â€œis as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them,
-- Scott Stossel

#Home #Fighting #Cells
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.
-- Scott Stossel

#Father #Ideas #Drug
Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, Iâ€™ve managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when theyâ€™re apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razorâ€™s edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliationâ€”between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive,
-- Scott Stossel

#Fighting #Missing #Alive
Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.
-- Scott Stossel

#Thinking #People #Kind
Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
-- Scott Stossel

#Anxiety
There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.
-- Scott Stossel

#Giving Up #Differences #Anxiety

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.
I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
Silence is a text easy to misread.
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.
Having it all is easy if youre willing to work for it

Scott Stossel famous quotes

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