Quotes About Fear

The amygdala doesn't use language. It learns by association, and that's how it remembers

something bad happens and I hadn't worried about it, I'll feel guilty. This belief leads you to treat worry as a duty, or maybe even a beneficial activity. If you shirk your duty, bad things will happen and they'll be your fault.

And, like every other trait, it's distributed in different proportions among the population, just like height. Some people have a lot of this tendency, and some just a little. It helps the tribe to have some of both types of people—aggressive warriors who have so little fear that they will go out and bring home a mastodon for lunch, and cautious members who won't have any part of that, but will also live long enough to raise a new generation, and feed it by growing corn.

When you treat worry as a danger that must be stopped or avoided, you're fighting fire with gasoline. Your gut instinct is actually pretty much the opposite of what would help. This is what gives the worry trick its power.

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We are too frightened of shadows. We cannot abide our vulnerability, our utter dependence upon a world that can eat us. Vast in its analytic and inventive power, modern humanity is crippled by a fear of its own animality, and of the animate earth that sustains us.

And then the roar. That roar. The roar of the end of all hope.

She was a nightmare of beauty and menace living right there above them, a being part raptor, part human, part divine. She knew without question that she could sweep down on them and inflict upon all of them a terrible vengeance if she wished. She had the capacity for violence within her, residing beside her heart.

Before fighting," she said, "we learn pain. Only once we learn how to control pain, can we overcome our fear of it. Once we overcome fear, we can learn to fight freely without the crippling weight of apprehension. That is when we will move on to fighting.

They want to subject society and the economy to a prolonged period of stress and fear, right?

He stared at me like he wanted to shoot me. It happens to some young men when you give them a uniform.

told you, man, if you find out who they are, they kill you. I think he wants to meet you so he can look you in the eye before you die!

I shuddered and the wind threw a couple of wet, bronze leaves at my ankles. I kicked them off

Give the world a common enemy, and they will happily surrender their liberties," Gary said softly. "That was one of the things Kissinger said.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.

fear of his little sister's safety. "Don't go too near the water!" Ruby stood up. She was, in fact, standing right by the water. In quite a lot of mud. "I'm just trying to catch— Oh!" she said. She'd been about to say – and this may be obvious – "Spock". She'd been leaning over the river, trying to catch Spock.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

fears about yourself prevent you from doing your best work, while fears about your reception by others prevent you from doing your own work.

To require perfection is to invite paralysis.

Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.

catering to fears of being misunderstood leaves you dependent upon your audience. In the simplest yet most deadly scenario, ideas are diluted to what you imagine your audience can imagine, leading to work that is condescending, arrogant, or both. Worse yet, you disregard your own highest vision in the process.

What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit. Each step in the artmaking process puts that issue to the test.