Use your fear. Harness it. Let them underestimate you. In the end, don't vanquish your critics — prove them wrong.
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Brad Meltzer
University of Michigan Commencement 2024, 2024
When the fear comes from a place of wanting to follow through with a passion, something you believe in — it's real good. If you aren't scared, be worried.
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Josh Groban
High Point University Commencement 2018, 2018
The real version of this was that I was heartbroken, and I was scared, and I had no idea if I was doing the right thing.
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Ronan Farrow
Loyola Marymount University Commencement 2018, 2018
My fear of failure never approached in magnitude my fear of what if. What if I never tried at all?
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Will Ferrell
University of Southern California Commencement 2017, 2017
The opposite of love isn't hate. It isn't even indifference. It's fear.
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Mary Karr
Syracuse University Commencement 2015, 2015
Fear is cheap. Fear is easy. Fear gets attention. Fear is spread as fast as gossip and is just as glamorous, juicy, and profitable. Fear twists facts into fictions that become indistinguishable from ignorance.
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Tom Hanks
Yale University Class Day 2011, 2011
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
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Steve Jobs
Stanford University Commencement, 2005
When we experience our fear, when we say the words 'I am scared,' we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being scared is not who we are. It is not our identity.
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Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004
We need our fear in order to find our love. They go together.
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Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004