Graeme Simsion Quotes

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

I love the fast lane.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

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.

I can't waste more time worrying unless something surfaces that should legitimately cause fear.

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

There are a lot of challenges we are facing, like how you are supposed to react to emotional stress.

I was living a dangerous life before I started boxing.

Short-circuit racing is full of health and safety, but the reason I ride a motorbike is because of the danger, and there is no place more dangerous than the TT.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

Fear is the mind-killer.

My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to remember we were doing eighteen miles an hour and I was really concentrating - because some of the time I just felt normal and then, before I knew where I was, it was all crazy again. Anyway, we got home safe and sound, and somewhere down the line John and Cynthia got home. I went to bed and lay there for, like, three years.

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.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

No one ever swung too slowly.