Quotes about Fear
The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.
— Seth Godin
Fear of living without a map is the main reason people are so insistent that we tell them what to do.
— Seth Godin
Eye contact, all by itself, is enough to throw your lizard brain into a tizzy. Imagine how scary it must be to set out to do something that will get you noticed, or perhaps even criticized.
— Seth Godin
The connected economy of ideas demands that we contribute initiative. And yet we resist, because our lizard brain, the one that lives in fear, relentlessly exaggerates the cost of being wrong.
— Seth Godin
If you seek to become indispensable, a similar question is worth asking: "Where do you put the fear?" What separates a linchpin from an ordinary person is the answer to this question.
— Seth Godin
Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we're afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.
— Seth Godin
We're so obsessed about the risk of shining brightly that we've traded in everything that matters to avoid it.
— Seth Godin
Those who fear risk also begin to fear movement of any kind.
— Seth Godin
When you learn to listen to your fear, you've found a compass that can show you what matters.
— Seth Godin
The old stories of what happened to Joe or Bob or Sue thirty years ago are told over and over. We use them to stoke our fear, to rationalize our desire to hide.
— Seth Godin
The Two Reasons Seeing the Future Is So Difficult Attachment to an outcome combined with the resistance and fear of change.
— Seth Godin
It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.
— Paulo Coelho