David Mamet Quotes

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.

I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make.

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.