Quotes About Doubt

Really?" Professor Skullface blinked at her in confusion. "Why ever not?

When self-doubt awakens, it feeds on itself. . . .

Even the most complex financial systems can thrive or fail depending on whether people believe they will thrive or fail.

Skepticism is always a good first response.

Him? Make the trip twice? I might have believed it if I'd seen it, but I didn't, so I won't.

He told me that people whose default is fear tend to second-guess everything they do. They tend to be indecisive, and many end up leading very safe lives. They are not interested in risk or adventure—

Scepticism is a girl's number six

It is significant, for example, that the moment when churchmen began to doubt the existence of the black man's soul was the same moment the black man's body was fetching high prices in the marketplace for their mercantilist cousins and parishioners.

but my biggest worry was that he would

To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.

My constant companions were fears, not God. I convinced myself he was simply on vacation, out carrying someone else on that beach with all the footprints. My heart had shriveled, and my soul was as wrinkled

People let their feelings push them away from God or away from believing that their life makes a difference. They think that because they don't see God working the way they think He should work, He's not there. Or they think He doesn't care and they get discouraged." When

She'd wondered what she'd ever do if God would actually speak to her while she was praying. Some of her friends, particularly one over in Point Pleasant, had encouraged her to get slain in the Spirit as if that would change things between her and God. She'd already been slain as much as she needed as far as she was concerned.

I mean, do you believe in God or what? " "Not the name-brand God they serve here." Tim said. "That old guy with the beard, granting wishes out of the clouds to whoever says the most rosaries. That's bullshit. I believe in everything.

When you're not getting minutes, you're doubting every shot you take.

I have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they've maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money.

I don't believe in miracles.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

I wake up in the morning, and I look in a mirror, and I go, 'Is this really all I got? Is this all the universe has given me?'

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

I once missed an appointment because I left my house, I locked the door. And then I thought, like anybody else, you know, 'I don't think I locked the door.' I just kept going back to the door. And I couldn't stop myself from checking and checking.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.