Peter Hook Quotes

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

I very strongly dislike fear. I always say fear keeps us from living our lives and doing the things we want to do.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

I came across the idea of running towards the things that frighten you. Once you go and do it, you realise that the fear of it is far more powerful than actually doing it.

I have always said that I am one to look forward rather than back; what has happened in the past I can't change now. What is forward, I can.

I used to be really afraid and anxious of taking on too much, and the older I'm getting, the more fearless I'm becoming. Life is so much more relaxed when you're like that.

I'd spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

It's like, if someone asks me to do something and it seems like a really exciting project, but I maybe really frightened about it, nine times out of then I'll say yes imminently because then I can worry after I've said yes!

Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating.

I'm the sort of person - for example coming off 'Strictly' - I make decisions, then I just deal with them and I go with them 100 per cent.

To ask for help does not make you weak. And that was something I felt after I was carjacked. I felt shame. I felt embarrassed. I felt weak about it. That's not the case at all. Once I did get help, I managed to overcome it and make something special with it, instead of not doing anything about it.

I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.

You don't want to live your life in fear.

I never feel bad. You can't feel bad - you have to just make the best decision you can at the time you're in and be like, 'That's the decision I believe in.'

Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.