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In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
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Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
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At first I wasn’t sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
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I like to do something I fear.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I’m not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
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Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
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I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: ’OK, I’m getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.’
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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
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Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
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So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it’s uniform color versus skin color. We have - we’ve overcome that level of racial fear.
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Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that’s just in the suitcase when you’re an actor.
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I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I’m always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!