Scott Carpenter Quotes

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

Scott Carpenter

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• 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.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Revolution

• I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• I don't fear anything now.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Fear
  • Now
  • Anything

• Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Rules

• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Fear
  • Now

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

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

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Birth

• With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Small

• Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Curiosity

• 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

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Fear

• Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Bad
  • Fear
  • Thoughts

• Acquisitiveness – the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods – is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Wish

• The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Fear
  • Hand
  • Powerful

• He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Words
  • Fear

• You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.'

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Pain

• I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

  

  Jim McDermott
  • America
  • Reality
  • Fear

• By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result-fudoshin, the "immovable mind".

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Future

• I liken Sleater-Kinney to a freight train. It felt like this incredible, forward-moving, powerful energy.

  

  Janet Weiss
  • Energy
  • Moving
  • Powerful

• The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

  

  Matthew McGrory
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Cool

• Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Rate
  • Selfishness
  • Principal

• Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

  

  Scott Carpenter
  • Fear
  • Curiosity