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"I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else."
Quote by -Dawn French
"The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place."
Quote by -Dawn French
"If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?"
Quote by -David Sedaris
"At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface."
Quote by -David Sedaris
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Every human being has both sets of forces within him. One set clings to safety and defensiveness out of fear, tending to regress backward, hanging on to the past, afraid to grow away from the primitive communication with the mother’s uterus and breast, afraid to take chances, afraid to jeopardize what he already has, afraid of independence, freedom and separateness. The other set of forces impels him forward toward wholeness of Self and uniqueness of Self, toward full functioning of all his capacities, toward confidence in the face of the external world at the same time that he can accept his deepest, real, unconscious Self.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Having tasted the honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as sacred, took great care of it.”
Quote by -Aesop
“Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“What one must fear, moreover, is not so much the sight of the immorality of the great as that of immorality leading to greatness.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Quote by -Marianne Williamson
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
Quote by -Marianne Williamson
There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.
Quote by -Yukio Mishima
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.
Quote by -Will Durant
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
Quote by -Willa Cather
It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
Quote by -Willa Cather
When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.
Quote by -William Godwin
The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding
Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got." (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University)
Quote by -William Shatner
I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.
Quote by -Winona Ryder
Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.
Quote by -Terry Goodkind
Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.
Quote by -Thomas Aquinas
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
Quote by -Thomas Harris
Pachelbel’s Canon filled the sun-drowned room where they learned each other and even then the fear flickered across him like an osprey’s shadow: This is too good to live for long.
Quote by -Thomas Harris
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
Quote by -Thomas Mann
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.
Quote by -Thomas Merton