THE “SKIN” OF THIS SCULPTURE HAS
QUOTES ADDRESSING FEAR
1. Jane Austen: “There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
2. Christian Nestell Bovee: “We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
3. Cher: "The scariest thing is to accept oneself completely."
4. Paulo Coelho: “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
5. Cyril Connolly: “Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it.”
6. Marie Curie: “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
8. Marilyn Ferguson: “Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.”
9. Arianna Huffington: “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”
10. Luvvie Ajayi Jones: "People think about the word ‘fearless’ to mean without fear. I see it to actually mean ‘with fear but you do it anyway’.”
11. Franz Kafka: “My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
12. Helen Keller: “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
13. Queen Latifah: “Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.”
14. Audre Lorde: “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
15. Nelson Mandela: “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
16. George R.R. Martin: “Laughter is poison to fear.”
17. Marilyn Monroe: “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
18. Thich Nhat Hanh: “Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.”
19. Georgia O’Keeffe: “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
20. Michelle Obama: “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
21. Chuck Palahniuk: “Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
22. Rosa Parks: “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
23. Shonda Rhimes: “A crazy thing happened — the very act of doing the thing that scared me undid the fear.”
24. Eleanor Roosevelt: “Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.… Do one thing every day that scares you.”
25. Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
26. Babe Ruth: “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”
27. Sonia Sotomayor: “The greatest obstacle to your own success is your own fear.”
28. Baruch Spinoza: “There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
29. Dorothy Thompson: “Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
30. Henry David Thoreau: “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
31. Lao Tzu: “There is no illusion greater than fear.”
32. Malala Yousafzai: “I say I am stronger than fear.”
THE “SKIN” OF THIS SCULPTURE HAS
WORDS ADDRESSING FEAR
1. Alarm
2. Angst
3. Ants in Pants
4. Anxiety
5. Apprehension
6. Bone-Chilling
7. Butterflies
8. Chicken Out
9. Cold Sweat
10. Cowardice
11. Cower
12. Creeps
13. Dastardly
14. Discomposure
15. Disquiet
16. Dread
17. Faint Heartedness
18. Fear of the Unknown
19. Fight or Flight
20. Foreboding
21. Fright
22. Get Cold Feet
23. Goose Bumps
24. Heebie-Jeebies
25. Hyper Concern
26. Jitters
27. Lily-Livered
28. Loss of Courage
29. Nail-Biting
30. Nerve
31. Nervousness
32. Painful Agitation when Anticipating Danger
33. Panic
34. Petrified
35. Phobia
36. Pins and Needles
37. Pusillanimous
38. Quake in your Boots
39. Scare
40. Scream
41. Screaming Meemies
42. See a Ghost
43. Shake Life a Leaf
44. Shriek
45. Shudder
46. Spineless
47. Terror
48. Timidity
49. Tremble
50. Tremor
51. Trepidation
52. Turn Yellow
53. Want to Wimp Out
54. Willies