#neurotic

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

#between #day #developed #every #every day

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #constantly #creates #day #effective

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#breakdown #card #carry #credit #credit card

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men. ↗

— Max Hastings

#colleagues #dealt #disciplined #found #god

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #competent #incapable #insecurity #invariably

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her. ↗

— John Hurt

#anyone #drank #drinks #father #fear

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. ↗

— William Hurt

#always #arbitrary #capricious #gently #get

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#back #between #days #exclusive #flying

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#danger #dull #genius #greatest #greatest danger

I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#bit #come #comedy #critical #doing