Jo Nesbo Quotes

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.

From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat.

I'm afraid of animals.

I have an animal phobia, especially ones I don't know.

Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in.

Yeah, snakes. They're my fear factor.

In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

I don't want to die tomorrow knowing I could've had a piece of cake tonight.

Let him smell his way to Dover!

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

Where there's fear, there is power.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.