Robert Sapolsky Quotes

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

I don't like change that much.

I am absolutely terrified to move... I truly, truly believe that success lies outside of your comfort zone, and my house has been the greatest comfort zone for me.

I don't like change.

Any time you're comfortable or familiar with something, it's easier than something you're not familiar with.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.