Performance Anxiety Quotes

• But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

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  Esther Perel

  Religious   Art   Sex  

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• There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.

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  Viola Davis

  Love Is   Play   Differences  

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

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  Julia Stiles

  Grateful   Anxiety   Forever  

  "10 Hollywood Actors Who Would Rather Be Onstage" by April Sperry, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

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• We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

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  Esther Perel

  Religious   Anxiety   Guilt  

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• Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.

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  Kate Christensen

  Voice   Waiting   Anxiety  

  Source: therumpus.net

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