Fear Recognition Quotes

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

I know the signs of scaredness.

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.

You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!

When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion.

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

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

Seeing means that you don't condemn fear as bad from the very beginnings

A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.

I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

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