“You will thus understand that what you fear is either insignificant or short-lived.”

“If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money”

William Gaddis book J R

“You live in an age that is dominated by science and engineering. …Thus if you wish to be effective in the world and to achieve the things that you want, it is necessary to understand both science and engineering”

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

“You don't fear so you live, you live so you fear.”

James Miller

“Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”

Natalie Babbitt book Tuck Everlasting

“Understanding is not such that we either enjoy it or lack it altogether. To be human and to be aware is to encounter only what is in some manner understood. Thus, it may be said that understanding is an unsought condition; we inexorably inhabit a world of intelligibles.”

Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) British philosopher

“Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations