Quotes About Doubt

When working at Women's Aid, I met countless women whose families had not believed them when they spoke of their abuse at the hands of another loved one.

I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

I'd love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I've made get a wide release. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen.

I'm really not convinced I want to be a manager at all. Managers are just wide open to abuse.

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

We wrote 'Fly' in such a vulnerable place where we weren't sure if we had what it took or we would ever make it. Now to have that song on country radio and have our fans singing it back is just wild, because we remember that exact moment, feeling that way.

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

I have a tendency to become very self-critical.

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

When we introduced 10-and-under tennis - when we shortened the courts and had smaller rackets and low-compression balls for trying to introduce the sport to youth - a lot of people said we weren't going to succeed.

Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.

I conquered my phobia of camping, although I doubt I'll be pitching my tent at a muddy festival any time soon.

I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.

You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.