I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Copy Quote View & ShareI do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
Copy Quote View & ShareCensorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Copy Quote View & ShareI write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.
Copy Quote View & ShareBad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
Copy Quote View & ShareWe are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.
Copy Quote View & ShareFear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
Copy Quote View & ShareDon't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Copy Quote View & ShareSuccessful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
Copy Quote View & ShareI've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.
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