Being Afraid Quotes - Page 7

• I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.

  Christopher Rice

  Thinking, Discovery, Feelings

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• The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.

  Christopher Rice

  Sex, Gay, Trying

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• I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

  Jack London

  Song, Heart, Years

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.4442, Delphi Classics

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• Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.

  Janice Galloway

  People

  Janice Galloway (2010). “The Trick Is To Keep Breathing”, p.48, Random House

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• Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

  Willow Smith

  Being Yourself, Mean, Hair

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.

  Rosa Parks

  Girl, Sleep, Night

  "Standing Up for Freedom". Academy of Achievement, October 31, 2005.

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• What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've turned a corner as filmmakers of color and that we're moving forward in our confidence and in the film industry not being afraid of our telling these stories and in giving us the opportunity to bring our vision to the screen.

  Amma Asante

  Moving, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: aalbc.com

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• What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it.
  What if we were taught to ponder it and reflect on it and talk about it and enter it and rehearse it and try it on?What if, rather than being cast out and defined by some terminal category, you were identified as someone in the middle of a transformation that could deepen your soul, open your heart, and all the while-even if and particularly when you were dying-you would be supported by and be part of a community?

  Eve Ensler

  Heart, Talking, Ifs And

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• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Country, Animal, People

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• I'm a big believer in trying to challenge yourself to step outside of your comfort zone and try new things. I was petrified of sharks in the ocean so I got certified in scuba because I don't like settling for being afraid of things and being uncomfortable with things.

  Nick Lachey

  Ocean, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Book, Acceptance, Winning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

  India.Arie

  Exposed

  "India Arie Talks Vulnerability, Meditation And The Creative Process (PHOTOS)". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.

  Marie Colvin

  Courage, Bravery

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• I was the youngest of the house that I grew up in, so I feel like as the youngest you have it pretty good. At the same time, I guess I required a lot of attention, being afraid of so many different things. So I was never seeking attention; I wanted the opposite. I just knew that when I saw Michael Jackson on the television screen once, it was, like, "That's it! That's what I'm doing for the rest of my life." I never questioned that.

  Keiynan Lonsdale

  House, Attention, Different

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

  Laozi

  Trying, Forget, Should

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• You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

  Erol Alkan

  Live Life, Ambition

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, "You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything."

  Neko Case

  Moving, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.

  Rory Vaden

  Attitude, Overcoming, Energy

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• Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.

  Karrine Steffans

  Live Life, Judgment, Sinner

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Cutting, Government

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". LIFE magazine, October 27, 1972.

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• Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Knowing, Healthy, Age

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• I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

  Herb Ritts

  Gay, Thinking, Names

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• Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

  John Dryden

  Courage, Whistling

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq. in Six Volumes: Volume the sixth. Containing Don Sebastian, King of Portugal. Amphitrion: or, The two sosia's. Cleomenes, The Spartan heroe. King Arthur: or, The British worthy. Love triumphant: or, Nature will prevail”, p.193

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• Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.

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  Ram Dass

  Beautiful, Art, Loneliness

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• No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Giving, Trying, Failing

  Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.208, Hachette UK

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