Scott Adams Quotes

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

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

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

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.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you.

Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.

For a long time, I had this constant feeling that I just wanted to look behind me. The hairs on my neck were standing up all the time, I didn't know where was safe.

People want to protect their way of life, and when they think it's in danger they start grasping for more extreme-seeming alternatives.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

Threatened men live long.