We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
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.
In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly common. Emetophobia, it's called, and by some estimates, it's the fifth most common specific phobia.
You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.
If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.
