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- He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
- The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
- Angela L. Wozniak
- Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
- Jason Fried, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think about things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is no reason to fear this.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-23-06
- Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- Feel the fear and do it anyway.
- Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
- If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 8, 08-22-04
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