Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'
If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
It remains to be seen the extent to which the critical needs of seniors in low income high rises, people with home medical needs and those with disabilities have been adequately planned for and met during widespread power outages. I fear the answers.
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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.
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.
That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs throug...
I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'
I delight in what I fear.
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.
I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
