Kristan Higgins Quotes

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

I sometimes should be more decisive.

Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.