Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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.
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is g...
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
Fear is not one of my attributes.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
