Fear
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I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Those who own much have much to fear.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
To fight fear, act. To increase fear — wait, put off postpone.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.