Karl Marlantes Quotes

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally.

I don't believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn't mean you don't feel afraid or frightened. I think it's normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I watched the first people walk on the moon, and to me, it was just an obvious thing - I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real question is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger?

'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.