Quotes on Fear

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

My dream is that one day, all people will live without fear, in real peace, with no fighting and no hostility.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. That's when fear dissipates, and that's when we can live the life that we're all supposed to be living.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is developing in Poland. Authors are somehow afraid of expressing what they really think or feel because they fear political consequences.

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!

Some people operate in complete fear that they're gonna lose their stuff and their money. That sounds like hell to me. And then I guess some people operate with hands open, and maybe empty, but at least striving for a deeper understanding of what it means to care.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

I'm worried that the audience is being conditioned. That's my real fear. Because if they don't want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it's only going to get worse. Those of us who don't want to shoot up and cut and sew, we're just not going be cast.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,_x000D_ _x000D_ imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.