#afraid

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anxiety #blame #fear #fears #hate

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. ↗

— Edwin Land

#aspect #being #being afraid #creativity #essential

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected? ↗

— Chastity Bono

#else #everyone #how #i #life

I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy. ↗

— Chris Brown

#also #basketball #care #classy #cool

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#afraid #else #king #play #played

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary. ↗

— David Byrne

#anyone #become #fit #i #place

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same. ↗

— David Byrne

#everything #get #homogenized #i #same

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. ↗