Daniel Goleman Quotes

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway.