More important, fear of leaks causes national security officials to think twice about what they are doing in secret with little direct oversight.
"The more spare capacity grows, the less important fear will become," said Leonardo Maugeri, a former senior executive of the Italian company Eni, who is now a fellow at Harvard University.
If we did not understand how important fear is in the business world, the "passive candidate" craze would make no sense.
Too many members of Congress, including Democrats, stifled their doubts out of political fear -- fear that Bush might be right about the evidence, but more important, fear that the war would go well and they would be on the "wrong" side of it politically, headed into the 2004 presidential election year.
Fleeing is a normal and important fear response to predators in the wild life, yet mice show freezing behavior, a passive coping behavior when strong footshocks are repeatedly applied in a fear conditioning test.
Another hypothesis is that psychopaths lack fear of personal injury and, more important, moral fear — fear of punishment.
As a science journalist, the insistent misconceptions of the scientific method and self-important fear-mongering of pseudoscience proponents can be absolutely infuriating.
Empathy is important; these fears should not be dismissed.
Two other important community fears that would need to be addressed in any change in organ donation policy include patient selection for donation, and harm associated with the procedures.
The development of techniques to reduce fear responses of captive animals is important because fear is generally considered an undesirable emotional state that is related to increased risk of injury and decreased biological functioning.
A famous quote from author Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (born James Neil Hollingworth) goes : Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
