Kate Adie Quotes

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

It's a human desire to be scared. On some level, that's how we survived - that sense of fear and danger. Our lives are much safer, so we gravitate to those stories that makes us feel those things and learn lessons, even if it's just, 'What are you doing? Don't go in the basement!'

My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response, like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.'

When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.

When you get hit to the body, you don't even worry about your face no more.

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.