09.29.06
New Ideas
I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones.
-John Cage (1912-1992)
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Teddy Roosevelt Quote- Mighty Things
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
-Teddy Roosevelt
07.30.06
Fear - Fear Quotes
” I don’t think there are seven deadly sins, there is just one: fear. Fear is the foundation of all negativity in the world. Where there is fear, there is discontent. Where there is fear, there is jealousy, disloyalty, hate, anger. When you are afraid, love is absent.”
- Erykah Badu in the Feb. issue of VIBE magazine
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Fear Worry and Hate Quotes
Fear Worry and Hate Quotes
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
- Bo Bennett
01.13.06
Fear Quotes
Fear Quotes
I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified.
- Anita Weiss
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
- Sir Walter Scott
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Eric Hoffer
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
- Sir Francis Bacon, Essays [1625], “Of Seditions and Troubles”
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
- Louis E. Boone
Fear Quotes
Fear Quotes
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
- Sir Francis Bacon, Essays [1625], “Of Death”
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
- Cyril Connolly
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Nelson Mandela
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
- Titus Lucretius Carus [99-55 B.C.], De Rerum Natura, bk. III, l. 87
