Quotes About Fear

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.