Michael Ryan Quotes

But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure.

Michael Ryan

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• 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

• Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Sometimes

• My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Career
  • Failure
  • Repetition

• 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.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Fear
  • Violence

• I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

  

  Vash Young
  • Long
  • Real
  • Together

• You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Fear
  • Need
  • Anxiety

• Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Age
  • Future
  • Fear

• Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Best
  • Effort

• There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Progress
  • Motivational
  • Move

• I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts... And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Past
  • Fear
  • Present

• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Discipline

• 'What happened?''Let’s just say my efforts to reprogram the weapon were not an unqualified success, shall we, and leave it at that?' She hated discussing failure almost as much as she hated the thing itself.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • She
  • Success
  • Failure

• Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Opportunity
  • Failure
  • Missing

• I never get tired of talking about 'Galaxy Quest.' I am so proud of that movie. Our only fear was that we were having so much fun making the movie we got concerned it might not be as good as we thought it was going to be.

  

  Enrico Colantoni
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Fun

• War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • War
  • Imagination
  • Moral

• The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Trying
  • Fear
  • Rest

• Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

  

  James Northcote
  • People
  • Fear

• One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

  

  Criss Angel
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• ... no diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• I have been blessed to realize my dream of becoming an underwater photojournalist, but with that, I feel an obligation and sense of urgency to share what I have seen with others.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • Dream
  • Blessed

• But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure.

  

  Michael Ryan
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Move