Facing Fear
I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane to lose pressure, and the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. We felt the plane dropping; the pilot was taking it down to regain cabin pressure. My heart was in my stomach. I found out after landing that her mom was in labor. I did the show and came back to New York. By the time I walked into the hospital, my daughter was being born. She was waiting for me. She’s a sweet daddy’s girl. She’s premed. She has her own pie company. She works for Habitat for Humanity.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Daughters, Experiencing, Facing Fear, Famous, Humanity, Job, New York, Quitting
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world – you’re insecure if you’re successful, you’re insecure if you’re not. A tightrope walk without a net. It’s a miracle I’m still standing!
Author: Kabir BediTopics: Career Anxiety, Facing Fear, Failures, Famous, Insecure, Job Uncertainty, Miracles, Profession, Professional Risk, Rollercoaster, Standing, Successful, Unstable Employment
The worst of all fears is the fear of living
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Acceptance, Experiences, Facing, Facing Fear, Fact, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Living, Living Being, Meaningful, Worst
Active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one’s life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Topics: Action-Oriented, Actions, Active, Active role, Daydreams, Days, Experiences, Facing, Facing Fear, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Looking, Looking forward, Meaningful, Science, Sciences, Scientific, Stage, Stages of adulthood
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Topics: After-life, Facing Fear, Fact, Factor, Habit, Nothing, Notice, Real release, Real-Life, Realistically, Sudden, Suffer
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Topics: Anything, Anytime, Attainment, Attempt, Courage, Course, Course of action, Facing Fear, Fact, Life Cycle, Life Experiences, life lesson, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions
I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form
Author: Freddie MercuryTopics: Facing, Facing Fear, Fact, Factor, Famous, Happiness, Happy, Inspirational, Life, Love Letter, Loved, Lovely, Meaningful, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Becoming, Diminished, Facing Fear, Factor, Facts, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Author: Elbert HubbardTopics: Ability, Able, Artist, Artistic expression, Beautiful, Economic, Economic arguments, Facing Fear, Factor, Facts, Lesson, Letting go, Science, Things, Thinking
I stay ready so I don’t have to get ready.
Author: Conor McGregor
Topics: Facing, Facing Fear, Fact, Factor, Reads, Ready, Real, Stay, Stay focused
I’m a journalist who writes novels on the side, so it’s not like I’m prohibited from expressing my opinion, it’s not like I’m running for office. And also, I think the fact that I’ve lived on both sides of the Atlantic has given me a slightly different perspective
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Differ, Difference, Experiences, Facilities, Facing, Facing Fear, Fact, Famous, Feelings, Giving, Giving back, Life, Live, Lived, Meaningful, Upside, Uptown