Quotes About Fear

All violence here is born of fear.

Eure Lippen haben sich gestreift, sind auseinander dann, Als sei euer Anteil am Glück bereits verbraucht und als hättet ihr Angst, vom Glück der anderen schon zu kosten. Ihr wart unschuldig? Wovor hat Unschuld je bewahrt? Selbst der Schöpfer sagt uns, wir sollen zu Festen Lämmer schlachten, Nie aber Wölfe...

Êtes-vous prêts à considérer que la mort est votre seule ennemie ? Oui, la mort, la mort seule. Pas les puissances rivales, pas les autres peuples, pas les autres races. Pas nous. Uniquement la mort. Le seul ennemi qui mérite d'être combattu, pourchassé, vaincu.

Baz?lar?, geleceÄŸe olan inançlar?n? kaybetmedikleri için sabrederler. Baz?lar?, iÅŸi bitirmeye cesaret edemediklerinden. Korkakl?k hiç kuÅŸkusuz hor görülesi bir ÅŸey, ama gene de yaÅŸam?n düzenine dahil. T?pk? boyun eÄŸmek gibi, o da hayatta kalman?n bir arac?.

The reckless open their arms & topple into love, as do dreamers who fly in their dreams without fear or danger. Those who know that all love must end in loss do not fall but rather cross slowly from the not knowing into the knowing.

Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive.

The glass dwellers were terrified of the cloche being lifted. They treated the suffering of others as something exceptional, something that required treatment, when what was exceptional was all this.

The sole purpose of terms such as spirit and immortal soul was to allow unscrupulous and corrupt clergymen to frighten men and subject them to their will.

in a land without a sovereign, Hobbes learned, every man lives in fear and makes war upon his neighbor.

in the absence of political order, human life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

At the base of her ankle is a deep, ugly scar she got when a car ran over her foot when she was six years old. That was in a small town in Bangladesh. Thus, even today, she hesitates superstitiously before crossing the road, and is painfully shy of walking distances. Her fears make her laughable. The scar is printed on her skin like a radiant star.

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is sprouting, and fermenting the second group and roasting the first group.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

I live in fear of making an honest mistake in conversation followed by some kind of Maoist-style recrimination session.

The New Yorker magazine's cartoons of the plump, terrified Wall Streeter were accurate; business was terrified of the president. But the cartoons did not depict the consequences of that intimidation: that businesses decided to wait Roosevelt out, hold on to their cash, and invest in future years.

When we traveled for two and half days, we reached the Deads' road from which dead babies drove us, and when we reached there, we could not travel on it because of fearful dead babies, etc. which were still on it.

But I don't know these Muslim people. They seem ... what if she brings a bomb inside the house? What if she blows up my house like all those suicide bombers in Israel?" he demanded.

This has the whiff of August 1945," said former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden, referring to the emergence of the atomic bomb. "That's a big deal."105

Hierarchy (or, more specifically, the fear it creates when not handled well) reduces psychological safety.

In one study investigating employee experiences with speaking up, 85% of respondents reported at least one occasion when they felt unable to raise a concern with their bosses, even though they believed the issue was important.

My short answer? No. I don't think you can have too much psychological safety. I do think, however, that you can have not enough discipline. Psychological safety is about reducing interpersonal fear. Making it less heroic to ask a question or admit an error. It doesn't mean you automatically have a good strategy for getting the work done. It also doesn't mean

But for jobs where learning or collaboration is required for success, fear is not an effective motivator. Brain science has amply demonstrated that fear inhibits learning and cooperation.

neuroscientists have discovered that fear activates the amygdala, the section of the brain that is responsible for detecting threats.

Fear inhibits learning. Research in neuroscience shows that fear consumes physiologic resources, diverting them from parts of the brain that manage working memory and process new information. This impairs analytic thinking, creative insight, and problem solving.15 This is why it's hard for people to do their best work when they are afraid.