Konrad Lorenz Quotes

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

Every match that I have, I always feel like I'm more nervous than the last one.

Any match you face, you know, you can be nervous.

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.

Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

After being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.