George Brett Quotes

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.

A fearful child cannot learn.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

If you live with a certain amount of dread for your own personal safety every day, that is anxiety.

It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.

When you have a nightmare, you think, 'What caused this?' And then you can sometimes get the same scenario two or three nights, back to back. Or something really bad happens, and you feel absolutely sad and do not want it to be real. You don't want to fall asleep and get sucked back into that same dream.

All worry is fear-based.

Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.