I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.
Every journey starts with fear.
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and - most of all - accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.
I don't fear nobody, and that's how I live my life. I live my life with no fears.
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.