Keith Olbermann Quotes

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Don't do anything for fear, because fear will never do anything for you.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Fear is the mind-killer.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.