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

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • 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

• I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Never

• I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fear
  • Chance
  • Same

• 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

• I could almost smell her fear... Why did it bother me so much? Because she and I were the only women here, and we had to be better than the men. Braver, quicker, whatever. It was a rule for playing with the big boys.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Brother
  • Stronger
  • My Sister

• As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Growing
  • Practice
  • Road

• One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Kind
  • Complicated
  • Optimism

• 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