Tobin J. Bradley Quotes

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

If you follow this policy you're going to have the deaths of some brave people on your conscience.

I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

I cannot afford to make mistakes.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.

A first impulse was never a crime.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.