Quotes About Doubt

I have plenty of good people around me I can talk to and for me it's the man in the mirror that gives the answers if I have hard times or if I doubt.

I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that yet.'

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?

There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I know one thing for sure that Salman Khan has crazy pointers about everybody and he has a very different point of view about things. He would think from every angle and I am always scared of those people who would control my mental balance and just make me doubt myself.

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'

When I got cut from Cleveland, they weren't one of the best teams in the NBA at the time, so I had some doubts. I didn't think I was going to get back into the league. I wasn't sure it was going to happen for me.

I have a very close relationship with God. I even fight with Him at times.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.

I was always in my mind that for the top-six clubs in England my name was not big enough.

When you hear coaches say your son is good, sometimes you think they are just saying it because it's you.

Am I going to be good enough, because I don't have head-coaching experience outside of high school football? I've been around a lot of great head coaches in my career, but you begin to doubt. And, for me, it was the doubt of, 'Are the players going to believe me?'

Coaches from Celtic actually came to my door but I wasn't interested. I thought I'd get lost in the system. I wasn't ready for it.

I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.

I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'