Quotes About Fear

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Fear is faith that it won't work.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.

I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.

We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

I work with my dreams or nightmares.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.