Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop' I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.
Frances Moore Lappé
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
Author
Writer
Pendleton
Oregon
Frances Moore Lappe
Believe
Brain
Responses
Situation
Initially
Learn
Situations
Fear
Uncomfortable
Means
Putting
Might
Response
Come
Usually
Mean
Stop
Reprogram
More quotes by Frances Moore Lappé
We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.
Frances Moore Lappé
[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.
Frances Moore Lappé
For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.
Frances Moore Lappé
A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.
Frances Moore Lappé
Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
Frances Moore Lappé
I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
Frances Moore Lappé
What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said, I don't think there's a woman alive who would give up fighting for her child, or her mother, or her grandmother.
Frances Moore Lappé
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.
Frances Moore Lappé
Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.
Frances Moore Lappé
Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
Frances Moore Lappé
Relationships are the core message of ecology.
Frances Moore Lappé
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say no, thanks to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
Frances Moore Lappé
A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.
Frances Moore Lappé
What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.
Frances Moore Lappé
We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
Frances Moore Lappé
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
Frances Moore Lappé
Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
Frances Moore Lappé
Fear doesn't have to stop us.
Frances Moore Lappé
Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.
Frances Moore Lappé
We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
Frances Moore Lappé
