Quotes About Doubt

But whenever you think, 'this is an exciting idea' and immediately follow that by thinking, 'this is a very stupid idea' then you know you are on to a good thing and that you will regret it if you wimp out.

It's called optimism — but I'm losing the hang of it fast.

You're confident he'll have found him, then?" "Well, no. I didn't sat that." "If there's one thing I hate," Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism.

She would worry, just as you worry. It's the people who don't worry—those who never have any doubts that what they're doing is good and right—they're the ones that cause the problems.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

I'm a total pessimist.

I'm a pessimist.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

I'm very pessimistic.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

I was petrified about 'I'm in You.' I couldn't wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.

While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.