Action cures fear inaction creates terror.

To overcome a fear here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there and do the action you fear anyway.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly it would be a kind of defence.

Other famous men those of much talk and few deeds soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.