Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out.

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.