Fear Driven Quotes

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

We see unreasoning fear driving a certain amount of public policy, perhaps more in Europe than in the U.S.

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

We are governed by our hopes and our fears.

If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I find it easier to approach things from a critical angle that otherwise may seem daunting because I'm used to being scared.

Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren’t worth a goddamned thing.

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

In the beginning, fighting was fun - I wasn't concerned with the outcome. At some point, I started training out of fear and anger. I wasn't really happy.

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it's out of fear that they're going to lose control or that they're not good enough, so I think anything done out of fear or motivated by fear is often unhealthy.

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

I like to be scared. I don't like feeling like "Oh, this is going to be a walk in the park". If I ever get to that place, I'll just stop acting.