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“One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.”

People May Reality Process Leadership Common Company Trouble Stage Serious Behavior Late Blame Factors Data Enterprise Decline Frightening

Author:Susan Collins

“The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.”

Sometimes Creativity Fields Flow Frightening

Author:Mathew Tobriner

“Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.”

Should Long Ideas Matter Enough Seems America Grows Slavery Slave Radical Revolutionary Frightening Accustomed Removal Pernicious Yoke Slavery In America Revolutionary Ideas

Author:Gerry Spence

“It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.”

Thinking Want Persons Shows Kids Parent Teach Scary Violent Handle Frightening

Author:Gina Philips

“The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.”

Way Real Knowing Concepts Scary Frightening Not Knowing

Author:Mary McDonnell

“They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.”

Believe Mean Young Courses Scary Awe Frightening

Author:Ray Brown

“We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.”

People Ifs World Listening Internet Radio Scary Connected Frightening Downloading Music

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.”

Artist Watches Stones Scary Frightening

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“When you go on an audition it's very frightening.”

Goes On Scary Frightening Auditions

Author:Victoria Jackson

“It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.”

Knows Careers Groups Members Scary Breakup Frightening Solo

Author:Don Henley

“My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.”

Real Self States Creative Drink Drug Scary Frightening Real Self

Author:Ronnie Wood

“Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.”

Should May Beautiful Path Crosses Scary Frightening

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.”

Way Giving Real Subjects Scary Frightening

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.”

Figures Scary Fascinated Frightening Reassurance

Author:Rory Bremner

“The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.”

Years Has Beens Lasts Situation Comedy Happened Males Scary Frightening

Author:Bill Bixby

“It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.”

Done Lasts Desire Left Fiction Science Fiction Scary Frightening Insects Cockroaches Science Fiction Movie

Author:Michael O'Donoghue

“This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.”

Want Reason Hate Causes Horror Scary No Reason Frightening Cult Negotiation Diversion

Author:David Brooks

“At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.”

People Want Firsts Happens Given Bits Scary Frightening Realised Indignant

Author:Julia Ormond

“It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.”

Firsts Problem Felt President Clear Serious Involved First Time Notes Scary Frightening

Author:Fred F. Fielding

“The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”

“A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie.”

Frightening Zombie Lame

Author:Scott M. Gimple

“It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.”

Looks Dies Comedy Metaphor Combat Frightening Exhilarating

Author:Robin Williams

“When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we’re the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we’re unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream—and then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest.”

Source: Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being

“That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.”

Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

“Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.”

Revolution Election Campaigns Disgusting Frightening

Author:Nicolas Gomez Davila

“It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.”

Way Reality Energy Movement Waste Arguing Frightening Skepticism

Author:Graham Linehan

“Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our pain is too deep, too frightening, something to avoid at all costs. Yet if we finally allow ourselves to feel the depth of that sadness and gently let it break our hearts, we may come to feel a great freedom, a genuine sense of release and peace, because we have finally stopped running away from ourselves and from the pain that lives within us.”

Source: Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood

“Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.”

Men States Results Saws Affair Frightening Holding On

Author:Tamar Myers

“You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.”

Thinking Frightening

Author:Lily Tomlin

“It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”

Voice Realizing Answers Frightening

Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.”

Giving Feels Firsts Stories Fiction Encounters Native Frightening Native American Brutal Absorbing

Author:Salman Rushdie

“There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.”

Ifs Kind Running Black Feet Frightening Steel Black Women

Author:Maya Angelou

“Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a God whose love frightens us into His strong and powerful arms where He longs to whisper those terrifying words, 'I love you.'”

People World Bigs Strong Powerful Love You Arms Holy Longing Gentle Our World Frightening

Author:Mike Yaconelli

“Five Truths about Fear Truth 1. The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow. Truth 2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it. Truth 3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out… and do it. Truth 4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I’m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else. Truth 5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.”

Way Feels Long Feelings Grows Five Pushing Going Away Territory Frightening Feel Better Helplessness Unfamiliar Pushing Through Unfamiliar Territory

Author:Susan Jeffers

“Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, . . .”

Source: The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love

“I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of challenges. My training in the Royal Marines taught me to be professional at all times, even in dangerous and frightening circumstances. But fear can be dispelled by knowledge and preparation. Life hangs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.”

“Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.”

Writing Fiction Adventure Frightening

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.”

People Ifs Feels Firsts Ideas Soul Turns Culture Stronger Strategy Rate Encounters Abandon Betray Frightening Old Culture

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.”

World Looks Art Important Artist Talent Indifference Frightening Compelled

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant”

Source: Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue

“I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.”

Wanted Moving Decision Numbers Share Frightening Exceed Instability Wrong Move

Book:The Book of My Lives

Source: The Book of My Lives

“Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the mental work of releasing and forgiving, almost anything can be healed. The word incurable, which is so frightening to so many people, really only means that the particular condition cannot be cured by 'outer' methods and that we must go within to effect the healing. The condition came from nothing and will go back to nothing.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Matter Body Seems Healing Conditions Effects Particular Willing No Matter What Method Forgiving Illness Frightening Healed Predicaments

Author:Louise Hay

“A secret love is beautiful, sweet and sacred when it's just a light infatuation; but when that person reaches over and touches you in the heart, making it alive in a way it has never known, that secret love becomes frightening, because you can never make them love you, you would never want to make them love you...but all the same, no matter which way you view it, they don't love you...and your heart doesn't know how to beat the same.”

Knows Way Want Heart Persons Matter Light Beautiful Love Is Views Secret Known Know How Alive Love You Sweet Beats Sacred Frightening Infatuation Secret Love

Author:Stefanie Schneider

“Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.”

Littles Self Bits Little Bit Frightening

Book:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.”

People Wells Littles Bits Situation Fame Little Bit Cameras Very Good Frightening Arena Specialty

Author:Johnny Depp

“It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.”

People Way Cameras Ghost Frightening Wrong Way

Author:Bob Dylan

“I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come out into the light with the rest of us? They may be perfectly nice, but the hoods send an uncertain statement.”

People Want Believe May Light Young I Believe Nice Statements Hiding Frightening Uncertain Hood

Author:Roger Ebert

“If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.”

Ifs Want Matter Seems Might Strange Shore Frightening Sail Jungle Back And Forth

Author:Carl Jung

“The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.”

Men Enough Bigs Prove Desert California Endurance Good Enough Frightening Tested Constancy Mojave

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.”

Way Ends Matter Happens Chance Steps Possibility Tomorrow Not Sure Frightening

Author:Seth Godin

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