Quotes About Doubt

There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.

That night when I went to the bathroom I only pretended to brush my teeth, for I feared that I would somehow rinse the prayer out as well. I wet the brush and rearranged the tube of paste to prevent my parents from asking any questions, and feel asleep with sugar on my tongue.

She believed that he would be incapable of hurting her as Graham had.

She believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

The reality is you have to do your work and maybe you don't know everything. Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm doing! But most of the time you can't even admit that, though.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

If you need to know in advance that everything will 'work out' before you jump in, you'll never jump into anything.

And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

I'm sure. But it doesn't work with me. for one thing, you won't look me in the eye. As for the other...I don't know. I can just tell.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.