Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
Respect all. Fear none.
You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.
Hit the delete button every time fear appears.
We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.
My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.
Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.
It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up.
Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Everything that is fear cannot be love, and everything that is love cannot be fear.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me personally, this is what creativity is about. It will express itself less in the fear of doing the same thing over again than in the desire not to go where one has already been.
Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
