Specific Phobia Quotes

Specific parts of you personality may be angry and are usually easily evoked. because these parts are dissociated, anger remains an emotion that is not integrated for you as a whole person. Even though individuals with dissociative disorder are responsible for their behavior, just like everyone else, regardless of which part may be acting, they may feel little control of these raging parts of themselves.
Some dissociative parts may avoid or even be phobic of anger. They may influence you as a whole person to avoid conflict with others at any cost or to avoid setting healthy boundaries out of fear of someone else's anger; or they may urge you to withdraw from others almost completely. ~ Suzette Boon

I'm reading a book that actually scares me. It is not a form of fear that is embodied in some irrational phobia of a specific object, living being, or an event, but a fear of words, of actions of beings towards one another, how one word or command wrongly distributed can destroy someone or many people. How following blindly into the paths of something you truly believe is right without any rationale to back it up or the thought of the consequences it can cause may blindly lead others to their death. How in that moment, thinking you're doing it for the right reasons, you ignore all the laws of nature that tell you that human life is sacred and that no one man's ideals can ever compensate for its loss. To have the power to destroy and cause suffering without much care. This is a fear of what humanity is turning into, and such a future truly scares me. ~ Aliaa El-Nashar

A phobia is an excessive or unreasonable fear of an object, situation or place. Phobias are quite common and often take root in childhood for no apparent reason. Other times they spring from traumatic events or develop from an attempt to make sense of unexpected and intense feelings of anxiety or panic.

Simple phobias are fears of specific things such as insects, infections, or even flying. Agoraphobia is a fear of being in places where one feels trapped or unable to get help, such as in crowds, on a bus or in a car, or standing in a line. It is basically an anxiety that ignites from being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult (or embarrassing). A social phobia is a marked fear of social or performance situations.

When the phobic person actually encounters, or even anticipates, being in the presence of the feared object or situation, immediate anxiety can be triggered. The physical symptoms of anxiety may include shortness of breath, sweating, a racing heart, chest or abdominal discomfort, trembling, and similar reactions. The emotional component involves an intense fear and may include feelings of losing control, embarrassing oneself, or passing out.

Most people who experience phobias try to escape or avoid the feared situation wherever possible. This may be fairly easy if the feared object is rarely encountered (such as snakes) and avoidance will not greatly restrict the person's life. At other times, avoiding the fear ~ Sahar Abdulaziz

We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later. ~ Rick Riordan

I hate bananas so much, it verges on a phobia. ~ Ahna O'Reilly

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd. ~ Dean Koontz

I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of? ~ Bill Maher

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ~ Steven Pinker

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd. ~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy. ~ Dana Gould

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room. ~ Pamela Anderson

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole, ~ Morgan Freeman

I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch. ~ Laura Fraser

I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire life. I actually have a phobia of singing, so I decided to take some singing lessons to help me get away from the phobia. ~ Kelly Hu

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools. ~ A. D. Coleman

If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends. ~ Sigmund Freud

Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your life directions, making you feel discouraged and hopeless in times of danger ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world. ~ Damien Chazelle

I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those. ~ Ryan Reynolds

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens. ~ Walter Gilbert

The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are at such a fever pitch among leftists and homosexual activists, and they need to be stopped before they get carried away in their zeal and do bodily harm to someone. Once again we must remind them our Constitution says, 'freedom of religion' and not 'freedom from religion.' ~ E.W. Jackson

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific. ~ Esther Hicks

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people. ~ Claude Chabrol

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

There isn't a specific person in my mind that I'd want to play. Yet. ~ Kristin Kreuk

I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it. ~ Mike D

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field. ~ Richard Yates

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I'll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I'm trying to increase my general understanding. ~ Brandon Sanderson

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind. ~ Paula Abdul

I do get a lot of requests for specific things. ~ Michael Winslow

I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific. ~ Sean Lennon

A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it. ~ Adrian McKinty

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure. ~ Nicholas Hoult

As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain. ~ Abby Wambach

the important question is not whether all rocks are alive but whether specific humans relate appropriately (respectfully) with specific rocks ~ Linda Hogan

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do. ~ Rupert Sanders

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians. ~ Bill Nighy

This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, we need boots on the ground, we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now. ~ Benjamin Carson

One cannot be brave who has no fear," Phobia ~ Marrisa Meyer

Love is when your 'phobia' becomes 'mania'. ~ Bhanu Teja

I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food. ~ Fleur East

I think we tend to write out our phobias. ~ Stephen King

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors. ~ Bill Hader

pharmacology of its class. A good grasp of the use of specific agents to target specific bacteria leads to ~ Donna Coffman

Get specific sooner and reap many rewards. The specific detail or example proves the general conclusion, not the reverse. The more specific you are abut anything the more clear you become, for yourself and in telling others. Thus you reduce the chance of others misunderstanding you. And you become more compelling, credible and memorable. ~ Kare Anderson

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.' ~ Mallory Ortberg

If you are a writer for a specific nation or a specific race, then fuck you. ~ Dambudzo Marechera

Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration. ~ Sophia Amoruso

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television. ~ Sutton Foster

I certainly enjoy doing pantomime-y things, but I didn't have any specific training in it. ~ Rob McClure

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor. ~ Christina Ricci

When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman. ~ Abhijit Naskar

We don't ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well. ~ Susan Cain

I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story. ~ Adam Schlesinger

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. ~ David Gilmour

All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits. ~ Richard Axel

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions ~ Florence Nightingale

I have never been interested in specific roles. ~ Estelle Parsons

We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way. ~ Raf Simons

By [anticipatory anxiety] I mean that the patient reacts to an event with a fearful expectation of its recurrence. However, fear tends to make happen precisely that which one fears, and so does anticipatory anxiety. Thus a vicious circle is established. A symptom evokes a phobia and the phobia provokes the symptom. The recurrence of the symptom then reinforces the phobia. The patient is caught in a cocoon. […] [Obsessive-compulsives] fear the potential effects or the potential cause of the strange thoughts. The phobic pattern of flight from fear is paralleled by the obsessive-compulsive pattern. Obsessive-compulsive neurotics also display fear. But theirs is not 'fear of fear' but rather fear of themselves, and their response is to fight against obsessions and compulsions. But the more the patients fight, the stronger their symptoms become. In other words, alongside the circle formation built up by anticipatory anxiety in phobic cases, there is another feedback mechanism which we encounter in the obsessive-compulsive neurotic. Pressure induces counter-pressure, and counter-pressure, in turn, increases pressure. If one succeeds in making the patient stop fighting his obsessions and compulsions -- and this may well be accomplished by paradoxical intention -- these symptoms soon diminish and finally atrophy. ~ Viktor E. Frankl

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions. ~ Florence Nightingale

Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary characters. Among microorganisms the most striking example of inheritable and specific alterations in cell structure and function that can be experimentally induced and are reproducible under well defined and adequately controlled conditions is the transformation of specific types of Pneumococcus. ~ Oswald Avery

The other side of every fear is a freedom. ~ Marilyn Ferguson

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles. ~ Jeri Ryan

A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050. ~ Frances Beinecke

Discovering a new phobia was like the opposite of falling in love. ~ Charlie Jane Anders

It was the idea of writing with a specific audience in mind or a specific age of reader that scared me off. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective. ~ Jeremy Corbyn

Books, films should be based on specific people... people which are rare and by it's own way pretty mystery as characters. ~ Deyth Banger

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being. ~ June Singer

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. ~ Theodor Adorno

It was a salad bar of phobias ~ Augusten Burroughs

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one. ~ Sheryl Lee

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions. ~ Galen Rowell

Your business should serve specific needs for specific demographics of people. That way, your marketing efforts will be more laser-focused and effective. ~ Kevin J. Donaldson

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ~ V.S. Naipaul

God made us for a specific purpose ~ Sunday Adelaja

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin. ~ Madeleine Stowe

I'm not trying to repeat myself or cater myself to one specific group of people. ~ Jenny Lewis

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away. ~ Clara Shih

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on. ~ Mick Jagger

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it. ~ Daniel Pennac

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations. ~ John Negroponte

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. ~ Georg Simmel

Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased. ~ Leander Paes

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there. ~ Justin Vernon

Formulate a specific game plan ... the specific steps in making your intention come to life. ~ Robert G. Allen

Innocent of fashion or custom, they came to their studies as Stoner had dreamed that a student might
as if those studies were life itself and not specific means to specific ends. ~ John Edward Williams

God Had A Specific Assignment For The Earth ~ Sunday Adelaja

To pursue kingdom understanding of what makes its lifestyle work on earth ask specific kingdom questions ~ Sunday Adelaja

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring. ~ Jane Smiley

Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements. ~ Zinedine Zidane

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit. ~ Lorene Scafaria

The enemy of development is this pain phobia - the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering. ~ Bruce Lee

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that. ~ Johnny Weir

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about. ~ Yahoo Serious

Sometimes just a little bit of light is enough to turn phobias into fluttering butterflies. ~ Marina Matiss