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Quotes About Doubts

I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
~ Gavin Rossdale
Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
~ Norman Lear
What we find within the Christian tradition is a beautiful way of remembering, embracing, being nourished by, and living in the light of this miracle despite all the legitimate concerns and doubts we may have concerning it. For Christianity, at its best, offers us a community of people who have likewise been knowingly marked by the miracle and who wish to celebrate it through shared rituals such as prayer, meditation, fasting, liturgy, serving the poor, fighting injustice, and so on.
~ Peter Rollins
There's also the "premortem," in which the team is told to assume a course of action has failed and to explain why—which makes team members feel safe to express doubts they may have about the leader's plan. But the superteams did not start with leaders and norms, which created other challenges.
~ Philip Tetlock
I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader candidacy was extremely energising and a terrific phenomenon in American life, and I hope he continues.
~ Norman Finkelstein
It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.
~ Mark Rutte
You work throughout the week to be prepared for the matches you're called upon to play. If you train badly you go into the matches with doubts.
~ Willy Caballero
So many articles said, ''China Beach' is uncancellable,' but when they dragged it on, I started to have doubts.
~ Robert Picardo
But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad. . . .
~ Jon Krakauer
There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.
~ Jon Krakauer
Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.
~ A. H. Boyd
I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward.
~ Leon Charney
Doubts of our conviction Follow where we go And when the world's compassion Ceases, still I know For your every touch, I Thank you so much For your every kiss, I I wish you love I wish you heaven I wish you heaven
~ Prince
And when what is near you is far, then your distance is already among the stars and very large; rejoice in your growth, in which you naturally can take no one with you, and be kind to those who remain behind, and be sure and calm before them and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with Your confidence or joy, which they could not understand.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
if what is near you is far off, then your distance is already among the stars and is very large; take joy in your growth, on which indeed you can take no companion, and be kind to those who stay behind, be steadfast and at peace before them, and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with your confidence or joy, which they could not understand.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Hell, he never had any doubts about his humanity -- that was left to his free offspring.
~ Ralph Ellison
Youth is insolent; it is its right—its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.
~ Joseph Conrad
Youth is insolent; it is it's right - it's necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.
~ Joseph Conrad
Youth is insolent; it is its right—its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence. He
~ Joseph Conrad
Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.
~ Wesley Morris
If you visit a courtroom you will observe that lawyers apply two styles of criticism: to demolish a case they raise doubts about the strongest arguments that favor it; to discredit a witness, they focus on the weakest part of the testimony
~ Daniel Kahneman
There is one thing you can do when you have doubts about the quality of the evidence: let your judgments of probability stay close to the base rate. Don't expect this exercise of discipline to be easy—it requires a significant effort of self-monitoring and self-control.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The poet John Keats noted that whereas great authors are 'capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason', the rest of us are 'incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge'.39
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
It is only in the philosophy of the seminar room that serious doubts are raised as to weather or not dogs and cats and other animals have consciousness. We all know how aware they are of their surroundings... and of us... they leave no doubt when they are in pain...
~ Daniel N. Robinson