Jimmy Chin Quotes

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

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

Fear is natural. Be with it.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a time of emergency, you've got to become deliberately calm.

We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

We must stop feeling fear.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.