Frank Abagnale Quotes

I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.

Frank Abagnale

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Clothes
  • Someone
  • Mask

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Fear
  • Growing
  • Tyranny

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Fear
  • Social

• We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Fear
  • Nothing
  • Course

• Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Today
  • Fear
  • New

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Pain

• Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Fear

• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fear

• Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Fear
  • Place
  • Funeral

• Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Reality
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Birth

• Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Fear
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Fear
  • Stage
  • Scared

• I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fear

• Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Free

• Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Fear

• I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • God
  • Mind
  • Perspective

• Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple: When Im put under pressure, I cant perform. Even the phenomenon Im most known for. When Im on stage, Im not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, its very hard for me.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Important
  • Simple
  • Answers

• And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Lust
  • Machine
  • Humanity's

• I think I'm going to improve a team the day I get there, honestly. I think I can be the guy who can play right away, the guy who can sit if I need to and learn.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Guy
  • Team

• I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Fear