A Quote by Mason Cooley

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

Mason Cooley

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Causes Fear Only Paralysis Sweating Trembling Trying

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

Laozi

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

Jane Jacobs

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

W. Edwards Deming

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

Chrysippus

Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined.

Avicenna

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Sheryl Sandberg

India has no shortage of deserving causes or good leaders; there is only short supply of activists and people who are willing to support their causes.

Sucheta Dalal

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Shelley Winters

I'm trying to figure out where I'm going with my life and that causes a lot of anxiety.

Vogue Williams

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

Shelley Winters

poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.

Jane Jacobs

There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’

Madsen Pirie

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

James Hillman

Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like... every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make.