Brad Feld Quotes

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

The fears we don’t face become our limits.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn't want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you'll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don't let it keep you from doing important tasks.

I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

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

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

The fears you run from run to you.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.

You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.