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I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.
But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.
You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable.
So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.
"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.
From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.
I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.
If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.
Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.
Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.
The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.