“Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
Alain de Botton book Status Anxiety
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Marston Morse (1892–1977) American mathematician
Attributed in Princeton & Mathematics: A Notable Record, Chaplin, Virginia, Princeton Alumni Weekly, May 9, 1958 http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/finding_aids/mathoral/pmcxpaw.htm,
“Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety”
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 4 : Creativity and the Encounter, p. 93
Context: Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the "divine madness" to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.
“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere.”
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 37, “Jiriki’s Hunt” (p. 629).
Stanley Fish (1938) American academic
Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 42
Hannah Hurnard book Hinds' Feet on High Places
Source: Hinds' Feet on High Places
