Quotes About Fear

By removing blame, you remove fear; by removing fear, you enable honesty; and honesty enables prevention.

the Fourth Ideal of Psychological Safety. No one will take risks, experiment, or innovate in a culture of fear, where people are afraid to tell the boss bad news,

To achieve market orientation, we won't do a large, top-down reorganization, which often creates large amounts of disruption, fear, and paralysis. Instead, we will embed the functional engineers and skills (e.g., Ops, QA, Infosec) into each service team, or provide their capabilities to teams through automated self-service platforms that provide production-like environments, initiate automated tests, or perform deployments.

Rejections are not obstacles to a career. They're simply things that don't work and can do us no harm. Fearing rejection can do harm. It stops you from continuing.

Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression. That abandonment or control of fear is a key element in destroying the power of the dictators over the general population.

want to see you get hurt, Marylou. Or maybe killed." "Don't worry about me, Buck.

Gilda, if your marriage is so bad why don't you get out of it?" "I'm afraid to be alone.

After ten months of no diagnoses or incorrect diagnoses—with her tummy distended as if she were hiding a small balloon under her dress—she finally heard it: "You have stage four ovarian cancer." Gilda grabbed my face in her hands and sobbed, "No more bad news, no more bad news. I don't want any more bad news.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

And at that moment the alligators burst into the room.

Paranoia was one of the few habits that was worth keeping.

Then the howling started. It was either hellhounds or teenagers, and she suspected the former.

The problem with paranoia was that if you let it rule all your decisions, then you would miss some perfectly good opportunities.

global thermonuclear war

was the fear of death and everything that went with it in this place:

Okay, that's it. I'm sleeping with my clothes on. Who wants to face a convicted felon in your pajamas?

The unknown is scary. It's unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.

Do you know what body armor says about a guy? It says he needs body armor.

There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror