Mellody Hobson Quotes

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could control what happened in the ring. My heart turned icy.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.

'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories.

At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.

I grew up in constant fear of eviction.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

Fear," she says, "is more powerful than pain.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

The scalded head feares cold water.