What counts as appropriate entails harnessing fear for good or honorable ends.
By harnessing fear and ignorance selling organizations are always getting the unsuspecting to buy stuff they don't need to buy in a manner not advantageous, or to sell stuff they shouldn't sell to get the money to buy stuff they shouldn't buy.
Why are Newt Gingrich and other politicians who aim to harness fear of Muslims directing their message toward evangelicals with, apparently, some success?
Only the last option allows you to harness fear and turn it into the strength to lead with love.
They feel no compunction about harnessing the fears and unarticulated yearnings of small children, and nor shall I. "Ronald smells bad," I say every time he shows up on television or [on a sign] out of the car window.
Think of the clandestine plastic civilisation operating throughout American society in the Toy Story franchise, or the nightmare-industrial complex harnessing the fears of human children in Monsters, Inc.
And politicians, cable networks, and Web headline writers will have time to harness those fears for their own agendas.
But if harnessing the fear of death for political gain is a grotesque tactic, it may also be a savvy one.
I figured out how to make it work for me, harnessing my fear of failure to create success.
Hinkle also feels that she's learned to harness her fears and use her memory as fuel for inspiration, rather than just a source of anxiety and stress.
