A Quote by Meryl Streep

Fear focuses the mind. — © Meryl Streep
Fear focuses the mind.

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A woman's mind focuses on feelings, while a man's mind focuses on problem-solving.
When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.
Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.
If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.
Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. 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.
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary.
Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.
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