George Monbiot Quotes

We'll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we'll just tell fear it can't drive. Sometimes we'll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, 'Enough. No words.' We're going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

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.

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.

I'm kind of emotionally dyslexic, and when I feel vulnerable or nervous, I laugh.

I grew up really timid, anxious kid, and I never really had to stand up for myself.

I think that even at my most anxious, if I have a job to do or a role to fill, I know on some level I can step up and complete it. I mean, I'm probably not going to go bungee jumping anytime soon... but pushing myself to weather some discomfort now and then feels healthy.

When I was younger, there weren't many people that were open about going through anxiety, so I never knew how to deal with it.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

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.