Quotes About Fear

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

la clave en la vida es, por un lado, tener el valor de adentrarse en lo desconocido,

When we feel pain in one time zone—meaning past, present, or future—we just switch to another time zone rather than change, because change brings so much uncertainty and so much instability and so much fear to people.

Once you assess your own skill and the situation, often things change. As long as you stop and really look, I think people's lives will change kind of radically, especially for women. Women are very, very quick to say they're scared. That's something I really want to change.

Usually, the answer is, "You can die." Then I answer back, "I'd rather die doing something I feel is great and amazing rather than be safe and comfortable living a life I hate.

There have been several points in my life—among them, just before I was fired from TrueSAN and just before I escaped the U.S. to avoid taking an Uzi into McDonald's—at which I saw my future as another fat man in a midlife-crisis BMW. I simply looked at those who were 15–20 years ahead of me on the same track, whether a director of sales or an entrepreneur in the same industry, and it scared the hell out of me.

As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.

just like most nightmares, it's not that big a deal and is reversible.

busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness: Obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day. All this noise and rush and stress seem contrived to drown out or cover up some fear at the center of our lives.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can." —Yoda, from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

If you can't come up with 10 ideas, come up with 20 ideas. . . . You are putting too much pressure on yourself. Perfectionism is the ENEMY of the idea muscle . . . it's your brain trying to protect you from harm, from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain. The way you shut [this] off is by forcing [the brain] to come up with bad ideas.

Kristen is the author of The Art of Fear: Why Conquering Fear Won't Work and What to Do Instead.

If you push the fear away, the only version of fear available to you will be its crazy, irrational, or contorted version. If you're willing to feel it, and merge with it, its energy and wisdom will appear.

He had realized something while arcing in slow circles toward the earth—risks weren't that scary once you took them. His

Cubrir los inconvenientes: «Cada una de estas [personas] está obsesionada con no perder dinero. Pero

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Economists typically attribute excessive bidding to risk aversion, or the joy of winning. What we found is that the actual cause of overbidding is a fear of losing, a completely new theory from past investigations.

risks weren't that scary once you took them.

To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not. Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty

Dejar de hacer algo por el mero hecho de que puedes hacerte daño es una razón nefasta para no actuar.

Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do.

In the end, a lack of focus is usually just fear: fear that whatever project I'm attempting will go nowhere or fail miserably.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I

El perfeccionismo genera indecisión, lo cual conduce a la parálisis.