Ed Weeks Quotes

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Fear will make you stingy.

I'm not really much of a risk taker.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.

I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.'

My default state is wariness.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.

People think I'm crazy and reckless but I'm absolutely not... I'm soooo safe and soooo careful and I won't do anything that feels like I could break something.