Scott Carpenter Quotes

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

Scott Carpenter

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• 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

• It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • 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

• The fear that goes with the writing of verse has nothing in common with the fear one experiences in the presence of the secret police. Our mysterious awe in the face of existence itself is always overridden by the more primitive fear of violence and destruction.

  

  Nadezhda Mandelstam
  • Fear
  • Violence
  • Existence

• When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Cold
  • Angry
  • Clam

• The best money can procure for thee is freedom to live in thy true self. It is more apt however to enslave than to liberate. It is good also when thou makest it a means to help thy fellow men; but here too it is easier to harm than to benefit: for the money thou givest another is useful to him only when it stimulates him to self-activity.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Good
  • Men
  • Live

• The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Good

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

  

  Scott Carpenter
  • Fear
  • Curiosity