Quotes About Insecurity

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

I'm saying she looks fine on the outside, but inside is somebody who's going to need a man a lot more than he's going to need her.

Imagination is a cruel master to the jealous man.

Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's.

He doesn't hate you, Thomas, he admires you. And we're often frightened and jealous of what we admire.

Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

We "overvalue performance," as one psychologist put it, "and undervalue the self." We're afraid of being just okay at things. This is a trap. "For to permit yourself to do only that which you're good at," writes the legal scholar Tim Wu, "is to be trapped in a cage whose bars are not steel but self-judgment.

cultivation, of that spirit of the novice: the naïve optimism, the hypervigilant alertness that comes with novelty and insecurity, the willingness to look foolish, and the permission to ask obvious questions—the unencumbered beginner's mind.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

Have you ever used Diet Shampoo before? It's for people with Fat Heads.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

She thought she must be ill, though she had no idea what was wrong with her. All she knew was that the world had become a frightening place.

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

We were scared. I guess when you're in your twenties, that's how it is. You've got an adult body, but you're trying to make it work with a kid's emotions. With Marilyn and me, it was worse. Our kid emotions didn't even work. We'd been treated too poorly.

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

But belief resides within the shadow of doubt. It only functions effectively in direct proportion to the suppression of the doubt that it seeks to override.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

And I fear my fear is greater than my faith.

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

But most of all I'm talking about myself and my fears, even if I know that's not done. I know that everything will turn out badly. I think about that all the time. Even while I'm washing my carpet. Do you understand that? Do you feel the same way?" (p.61)