Marion Milner Quotes

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

Most of the things I do are inspired by things that frightened me when I was young.

We all have fears! Don't lie! We all have fears.

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

Fear is the fatal killer of desire.

There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.