Famous Quotes About fear

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.