Panic Quotations

There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

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.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

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.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

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

Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling.

During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

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.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

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

Even though we know the origin of diseases, panic sweeps. It's one thing that frightens us, because it's your health and your body - it's more like a tangible threat; it's not like a foreign enemy you can fight. That was really what was uppermost to many of us whilst making 'Black Death.'

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th century. It will recover from the financial panic of 2008-09 and Obamanomics.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

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

I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that's why they panic every time they feel like they're losing the propaganda war.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you can just calm down and see where it's going, you'll be okay. Then you become more relaxed.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

I have moments when I'll stare at a script and say, 'I don't know what I'm doing!' But then I push myself into that feeling because I think panic is important.

Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

On its own, a comp-store inventory increase of 2-to-5 percent is no big deal. But when you've got comp-store sales declines of closer to 10 percent, you're dealing with a possible 10-point spread, which we believe is going to cause retailers to push the promotional panic button earlier than they would have.

One thing we need to guard against is panic buying, ... It exacerbates the problem.

One thing we need to guard against is panic buying. It exacerbates the problem.

No one would bring their horse into a studio, because they don't want to bring their prized animals into an environment where they wouldn't be comfortable or where they might panic and hurt themselves.

Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.

Nothing in my 26 years on Wall Street or my six years in government suggests that there is any predictive capability even remotely reliable enough for such a system, ... In addition, the early warning itself could create precisely the instability and even panic that such a system is designed to prevent.

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Right now it's just too early. It's just too early to start thinking about hitting the panic button. If it's in July or August and you're just 30 games under and it's just a joke, then you've got to find a way to prepare yourself. But right now nobody's panicking.

My league debut was at Leicester and it is a case of just get on and play; don't panic about it and enjoy the experience. They just need to play their natural game and hopefully the older boys will look after them a little bit.

I got the sense in the room they were just afraid of a work stoppage, afraid of the union, and they would accept anything. The union should've asked for more; they would've gotten it. It was a panic deal. I've seen it before, but not like this.

I don't know. We got in a panic mode. We can't have those kind of turnovers. They (the players) have to understand that when they're in a pressure situation they can't throw the ball around like this.

We're sick and tired of seeing all these little white crosses around. Most drivers, regardless of their age, if they're ever faced with a panic situation, they just don't know how to properly act. And most don't know their own capabilities or their vehicle's capabilities. Ninety percent of driving is done at 50 percent of a vehicle's capabilities.

Much of the panic selling is over. People are cooling off and realized that the fundamentals of the economy and companies are still solid.

(Momentum) manifests itself by winning. Part of it helps your psyche ? you feel more confident coming off a win than a loss. ... Maybe you don't panic when things aren't going as well as they should because, 'OK, we've had success.' It's a big part of anything in athletics, no doubt.

Sixty or 70 at-bats is no time to reach for the panic button, because this is a game of cycles.

Mentally, our girls weren't there. We were a step behind defensively and offensively we were in a panic. We made bad panic passes. But give Spring-Ford credit. They caused those things. We didn't react as individuals.

Most people will come in with symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. They suffer from depression, maybe panic attacks. They also come in poor, often without a language, not having any kind of support system. They are isolated; they have lost their culture, lost their jobs. They cannot work here because they are not legal. They don't know how to find a place here that copies the work they did before in their countries. Most of the longest-lasting and the most damaging effects are psychological. A lot of medical issues can be healed.

She hit those two threes back-to-back. Again, we hit the panic button and we didn't have to. We hung close. It was a six-point game until the end when we had to foul them.

When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

The price we have to pay for all this is someplace. Early in the century, we're going to see a real good old-fashioned panic of the kind we haven't seen in a long time.

I would think they would have to come down over time. How fast and how far depends on how much fear stays in the consumer marketplace. Panic buying spurs some of this.

I wouldn't panic just because interest rates go up a quarter point, You should review your finances and see if there are areas I can cut back, areas I don't use.

I wouldn't panic too much, I would say to the people out there, ... We as players aren't panicking, the coaches aren't panicking, and that's the most important thing.

There are some very difficult loud passages and jumps, with both hands crossing over each other, ... percussive, aggressive, harsh phrases that must be practiced dozens if not hundreds of times so that in the adrenaline-filled panic of a concert you can keep your cool and hit most of the right notes. I certainly wouldn't want to live next to anyone practicing that.

I am so proud of her. She didn't panic and stayed calm the whole time.

If organizations haven't done their due diligence to this point, you're going to see the red button hit, and when you're in a panic mode you have a tendency to grab at anything, ... We'll be seeing a lot of that.

Four points out of that...we've got to be a little bit happy. We didn't make it easy for ourselves. When you get behind on the scoreboard the thing is not to panic and we held together and believed to could do it.

Four minutes is a lot of time. It's not a time to hit the panic button. After that, it was all free throws.

I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button. But there is an acute recognition of the grim environment that both parties are operating in.

I feel good about what we're doing. We just have to break (Roosevelt's) press and handle the pressure. We can't get in a track meet with them. I think (our players) believe they're going to win. They're not going to panic if Greene doesn't play. This happens. I have full confidence in them.

For the time being I wouldn't panic or read too much into (the oil price), but if it goes even higher or if it remains at such a level for an extended period, it could become a drag on the economy.

For the time being there is no reason to panic in Europe. The risk for citizens to have this virus is minimal.

I don't think we need to panic based on this finding.

But certainly there's no panic going on, as has been displayed by the nomination of the squad.

But there is no panic in the air because Friday's decline was explained. Earnings that came in were a little disappointing, we had a huge run-up in January so profit taking was expected, everyone knows what's going on geopolitically and it was a Friday with options expirations.

We are experiencing these extreme levels of fear, with investors saying that they are not interested in hearing any positives, like the retail sales this morning, and that they want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The silver lining is that this kind of panic is historically the classic feeling when a bear market is at its bottom.

We talk about expecting to win and wanting to win, and right now these kids want to win. There was no panic tonight. Our kids played hard and executed late on defense and got some key rebounds.

How will we handle that close ballgame? ... How are we going to handle being down 21 points at halftime to Boise State? Is everybody going to push the panic button, or can we stayed poised ... ?

H shares held well yesterday even if there was panic selling in Tokyo and other Asian markets yesterday.

I also thought it was good for our offense to bounce back from a really horrible start. I think we showed that there is no panic in this team... can respond to adversity which is going to serve us well in the future.

He was in good spirits when I spoke to him this morning. You could see that there was a little bit of panic when he was coming off the ice. He knew that it was a serious injury and hopefully things will work out.

He didn't hit the panic button. He wasn't putting the blame on anybody, wasn't pointing the finger at anyone. He told us we're gonna still come to the field and improve ourselves every day. He handled it the way a professional should handle it.

He didn't panic when things didn't come to him. What Chad has is a lot of patience.

Going into the Rutland game, they know what's at stake. I'm not going to push the panic button.

He's got the sweetest hands I think I've seen on a guy. He doesn't panic with the puck at all. He doesn't let too much intimidate him or rattle him out there, and that's a big thing.

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Markets tend to temporarily wobble, and then return to their prior behavior. So don't panic or make any decisions based on your knee-jerk emotions.

That area is solid with refining capacity. There's an element of panic in the market but that's not surprising given the lack of capacity worldwide at every level, refineries and oil wells.

Regardless of what excuse we want to make, we have to do a better job of getting the ball to Tony Gonzalez 's hands. He set an all-time record in the history of the National Football League with 102 catches last year and I'm certainly not going to panic because he's not at that pace right now.