Sentences with phrase «acting frightened every time»

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I would suggest to you that like denial — not the dishonest denial of the fake «skeptics», but the psychological denial of a problem to painful or frightening to face — defeatism offers false comfort, the false comfort of throwing up your hands, declaring «everything is lost, nothing can be done, nothing will be done, nobody cares, nobody will act, time to give up» and retreating into bitter, morose passivity.

The first, an extremely dangerous business - as - usual path, is one in which we fail to act, decisively and in time, and thus commit ourselves to disruptive, frightening, and extremely expensive near - future adjustments.