Quotes About Doubt

We all go through the phase where the work is slow and aren't sure if what we are doing will have returns in the future or if it'll reach people at all. You can't fight that.

I go through different phases where there's times of self-doubt, but when the bell rings and it's time to throw down and I get another opponent in my face, I just go to work my best. I fight and usually it turns out well for me.

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

I wanted to go to grad school in philosophy... Nobody was like, 'You should!' You know, they were all like, 'you could?'

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

Phoenix Nights' was really starting to take off. But I was scared to leave my job in case things didn't work out.

I live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore.

Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.

The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.

At certain times, you start to - maybe not lose the faith - but just wonder how long it will take until someone picks me up. I was thinking, 'Is it just me? Do I think I'm better than any manager does?'

Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

Faith is never identical with piety.

I don't always sleep for too long, but I sleep well. Sometimes when you have a doubt about team selection, you talk to your pillow, but in the morning, you have an idea.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

What I've learned is Twitter is only a bubble - take it with a pinch of salt.