3 December 2020 Frank Ocean I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
3 December 2020 Desiderius Erasmus It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
3 December 2020 Lars von Trier Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can’t beat them, and if you can’t beat them, join them, as they say. As I’ve got older I’ve become very interested in that part of the work.
3 December 2020 Steve Irwin 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.
3 December 2020 Marianne Williamson As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
3 December 2020 Ben Stiller There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
3 December 2020 Harlan Coben I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I’m not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau When I’m acting, I’m two beings. There’s the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
3 December 2020 Robert Trout We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
3 December 2020 Jean Anouilh We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
3 December 2020 Bear Grylls You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
3 December 2020 Titus Livius Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
3 December 2020 Bernard Law Montgomery Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
3 December 2020 Samuel Daniel By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
3 December 2020 John Henry Newman Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
3 December 2020 Bell Hooks I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that’s becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
