Alan Greenspan Quotes

People motivated by fear do not act well.

I operate off of fear almost exclusively.

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

Human psychology is attuned to the negative. It’s called the negativity bias. We dread bad things more than we savor good things.

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

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

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

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

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

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.

Fear–fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague and famine, that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees, or even planting next year's crops...

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time.

Fear is a great signal. It's like a pain signal. Hey, look at me, look at me. Get your focus right over here, at the pain.

Closer to a fight, I can really feel my heartbeat in my chest. I can hear it beat through my mouth, this 'gunk, gunk, gunk' rhythm.

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

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.

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.