Trepidation Quotes

• Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Firsts, Innocence, Film

  City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1988.

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• We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

  Jason Biggs

  Skepticism, Taxi, Sequels

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• The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

  Moby

  Mirrors, Worry, Looks

  "What I see in the mirror: Moby". www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Relief, Favors, Abandoned

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Fear, Opportunity, Challenges

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• It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Lakes, Decision

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• To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those in their 40s, with fear and loathing by those in their 30s, and with complete indifference by anyone younger. An icon to baby boomers, who will never concede that when something is over, it is really over (Clapton, McCartney, Santana, the 1960s), Allen has not made a truly memorable film since Bullets On Broadway back in 1994.

  Joe Queenan

  Baby, Memorable, Past

  "Proles in a pickle" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Betrayal, Writing, Destiny

  Ann Kidd Taylor, Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “Travelling with Pomegranates”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

  Michael Chabon

  Lying, Heart, Firsts

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• I certainly don't mean to leave the impression that anxiety can be waved away with a simple pep talk. In fact, for some, God's healing will include the help of therapy and/or medication. If that's the case, do not for a moment think that you're a second-class citizen of heaven. Ask God to lead you to a qualified counselor or physician who'll provide the treatment you need. This much is sure: It's not God's will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It's not his will that you face every day with dread and trepidation.

  Max Lucado

  Healing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.

  Randy Shilts

  Stories, Answers, Telling The Truth

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• Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

  Georges Bataille

  Love Is, Sick, Nervous

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• If you knew everything was really was all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Believe, Positivity

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• Every mile marker can be met with some measure of trepidation, in a race or in life. Am I on target? Do I have what it takes to finish strong? Am I taking care to stay nourished so I can endure? Is my training proving to be sufficient? Am I prepared for the hills? It is impossible to fathom the full distance, so we make our way to the next mile marker, and the next, checking in with ourselves as we go.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Strong, Distance, Race

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• And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.

  Sarah Dessen

  Lying, Giving, Guy

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.97, Penguin

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• Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Country, Thinking, Alarms

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.126, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I definitely enjoy liturgical work and choral work from the 15th century and 16th century, but I play in churches with a bit of trepidation, and it's not something I enjoy because there are all these problems. It's an implication that you're part of the theological apparatus, like for atheists or something, and I don't like that. I like playing with the form, inhabiting the tropes of religious music without that promise of angels at the end. It can be awkward, you know?

  Tim Hecker

  Religious, Atheist, Angel

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Home, Writing

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose.

  Theodora Goss

  Self, Conscious, Poetry Is

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors. I just said, "This is something to get on board with."

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Interesting, Directors, Boards

  Source: collider.com

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• There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Giving, Creative, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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• Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy something that theyve been told is good, make an unsuccessful attempt to read it, and when they have accumulated half a dozen unread books, feel so bad that they are afraid to buy more. In contrast, the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Desire, Half

  Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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• I don't live my life as a Christian with trepidation, feeling that perhaps I've failed to give the best gospel possible on each occasion, but realising that God's taking care of a lot through his Holy Spirit.

  Larry Norman

  Christian, Giving, Feelings

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• It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated.

  John Pfahl

  Art, Sublime, Trying

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