Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens of corporate scandals. It was the third consecutive annual decline, the first time that has happened in 60 years.
I’ve dealt with bigger things than the odd performance, dealt with a hell of a long time out of the game from an injury which shouldn’t have kept me out for that long. I’ve had to deal with fears of not playing again, I’m a bigger man for it and I will be better for it in the future.
Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
We get bored because we don’t want to sit with our fears. We don’t want to sit with our anxiety. We don’t want to sit with our stress because it’s uncomfortable.
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
My worst fear is to not able to understand what my director wants me to do. I might not be able to reciprocate to his idea or vision. I may not be able to perform before the camera. Those are my worst fears.
Being alone on stage without a character to hide behind has always terrified me but I’ve always been one for facing my fears.
As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner – the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It’s like opening Pandora’s box.
When I talk about movies like ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘Stepford Wives,’ I really noticed that these movies were able to address fears surround the women’s lib movement in a way that was engaging, not preachy, but fun.
One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.
The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.
After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.
I’m reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I’m prey to embarrassment – the dread that everyone’s sort of sniggering at you, that you’re going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.
While being a parent has been the most fulfilling experience of my life, it comes with a price. Besides the onslaught of worries and fears that can be paralyzing, more personally there is a struggle with identity, or the fear of loss or usurpsion of identity, if that makes sense.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
When you’re recording a ninth studio album, you can’t fail. You don’t really have any fears. You just make the best record that you like. You hope your fans are gonna like it, but if they don’t, they have eight other ones to listen to.
I debuted in Bollywood without inhibitions, and I don’t want to develop any fears now. Nothing is more detrimental to an actor than the lack of total surrender.
Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a reasonable place. Many attempts to make it so have failed because of selfish individual and national interests.
We get older, and we get more wrinkles, but fundamentally, we stay the same… You have the same fears and doubts and concerns and dreams and passions and all those kinds of things, so I feel like you don’t change as much as you think you do.
It’s okay to have fear – we’re all human; it happens – but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.
In many ways, Trump appeals to people’s smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.
The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people’s deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse – that our leaders ‘can’t do anything right,’ that things are utterly falling apart.
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I’m having right now being gone.
I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I’ve never gotten over it.
The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.
I would say that fears of the euro area breaking up are unfounded.
Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
Never take counsel of your fears.
Feminists say no-fault divorce was a large hurdle on the path to female liberation. They apparently don’t consult the deepest hopes or greatest fears of young women.
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
That’s what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it’s the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director – they’re not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.
My biggest fears aren’t with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we’re trying to think about.
For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you’re doing the same thing, every single year.
Love is full of anxious fears.
I miss the fears. I miss that. I miss going over the middle and not knowing if I’m going to make that play. I think that’s the part of the game you miss the most, that excitement of it. Then you think of the physical part as a retired player and I’m like, ‘hell no.’
People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that’s not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.
Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.
I don’t have any fears.
I don’t fear nobody, and that’s how I live my life. I live my life with no fears.
Ibrahimovic is certainly a great player, but during a match, I don’t waste any thoughts on who is opposing me, and you never have any fears on the pitch.
It is true I’ve written songs for other performers; I’ve worked with Tricky, Tears for Fears, A1, HearSay among others.
I’m not real good at surfing, and I’m terrified of sharks. That’s, like, one of my main fears. Snakes, sharks, deep water, and commitment. I think those are my four big ones.
The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I’m home alone.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves – their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance – into the lives of young people.
I started doing motivational tours. I’ve seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don’t introspect as much as we should.
Asking your children about their fears or worries about going back to school will help them share their burden.
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it’s a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
