Bob Goff Quotes
Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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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.
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We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.
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The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.
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The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
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There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
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Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
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I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn’t have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.
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The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper
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As a child, every North Korean is very happy. We were very happy because we learned horrible things about the outside world, like in America and Japan. We thought they were suffering; that's why we were very happy... but in reality, we were living under fear.
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I didn't understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn't a coffee shop. It was really a way of life... we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won't work in New York, that it won't work some other place. That's a discipline we keep trying to improve.
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From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.'
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Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are two of my favorite writers; they're the kind of writers who make you feel like, 'I can do this. I want to do this.'
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Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
