We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.
Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.
I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.
'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.
