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Social control is best managed through fear. -- Michael Crichton
Do what you fear most and you control fear. -- Tom Hopkins
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives. -- Helen Mirren
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. -- Javier Bardem
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. -- David Allee
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. -- Noam Chomsky
I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that. -- Jordi Molla
My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it. -- Mollie King
To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang. -- Adam Arkin
I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt. -- Taylor Swift
In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control. -- Michael Leunig
I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. -- Pat Brown
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear. -- Hunter S. Thompson
With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life. -- Kevin Whately
We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear. -- Bernard Werber
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. -- Amelia Earhart
Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect. -- Matt Smith
To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most. -- Jenson Button
I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. -- Lauryn Hill
I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life. -- Robert Crais
The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear. -- Charles Eisenstein
Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear. -- Mason Cooley
The loss of control you fear is already in the past. -- Clay Shirky
But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control. -- Veronica Roth
Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty. -- Henry Mintzberg
You have got to control your fear, get in control of your emotions. -- Joe Teti
I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me. -- Toks Olagundoye
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. -- Erica Jong
People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else. -- Joss Whedon
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it. -- Robert Jordan
There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control. -- Judith McNaught
It was alright to be afraid of something, as long as you didn't let the fear control you. -- Katie MacAlister
Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me. -- Michael Treanor
One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go. -- Elliot Kay
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change. -- James Frey
The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective. -- Hamza Yusuf
Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it. -- Rickson Gracie
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. -- Lynda Barry
Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed. -- Steve Berry
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it. -- Veronica Roth
When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life. -- Ali Vincent
Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear -- E. F. Schumacher
We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility. -- Angeles Arrien
True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things -- Alex & Brett Harris
Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control. -- Reza Aslan
I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening. -- Veronica Roth
You build walls & boundaries when you give into your mind. Fear nothing & take control of who you are & who you are meant to be -- Joel Brown
You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all. -- Iyanla Vanzant
My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions. -- Mamnoon Hussain
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result. -- Byron Katie
A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion. -- Frederick Lenz
All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world. -- Bryant McGill
Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle. -- Kano Jigoro
Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life. -- John C. Danforth
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power. -- Deepak Chopra
Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out. -- Prentice Mulford
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. -- Cecil Beaton
[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened ways to create boundries with my child. -- Shefali Tsabary

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