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Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do. -- Neil Strauss
To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything. -- Rob Reiner
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. -- Neil Gaiman
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books. -- Anthony Bourdain
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write. -- Deb Caletti
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am. -- Andrew Shue
I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it. -- Iris Apfel
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen. -- Tony Goldwyn
I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles, and often get them wrong at first. -- Caroline Leavitt
There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome. -- Sherilyn Fenn
I try not to agonize over my lyrics, though, because that can come across in them. Some lyrics come more easily than others and some you have to spend a lot of time on, but I think you have to watch that you don't take the life out of them by worrying too much. -- Jane Siberry
Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize. -- Katharine Graham
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her. -- Brian Selznick
Don't agonize, organize. -- Florynce Kennedy
he who will not economize will agonize -- Confucius
he who will not economize will have to agonize -- Confucius
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. -- Susan Sontag
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. -- Horace Mann
It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations. -- Louis Eliot
The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize. -- Confucius
I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. -- John Cusack
I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed. -- Jimmy Heath
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself. -- John Rosemond
I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out. -- Peter Orner
I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them. -- George W. Bush
Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat. -- Dan John
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new. -- Louise Bogan
We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day. -- Robert Grudin

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