Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

I always imitated other people and thought, 'Well, maybe I'll do standup,' but I was too afraid for that.

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

I worry a lot about what people think. I worry people think I'm not helping them enough, that they don't like my music, that I'm playing a song too fast or talking too fast. I worry my wife isn't happy with our relationship... I'm afraid somebody's going to take my career away from me. That it's going to go away, or I'm going to get fired.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

I don't know if I'm brave.

When people have recently asked me my profession, I have not dared to reply.