Quotes About Self-doubt

I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicious I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer.

I didn't really see why people should look at me

Orice lucru în via?? e subiect de scris, dac? ai îndr?zneala s? o faci ÅŸi imaginaÅ£ie s? improvizezi. Cel mai mare duÅŸman al creativit??ii este îndoiala de sine.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt....

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

And indeed there will be time To wonder, Do I dare? and, Do I dare? Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair— (They will say: How his hair is growing thin!) My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin— (They will say: But how his arms and legs are thin!) Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn't poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren't.

I don't know what my greatest fear is; maybe just that I'll be caught and discovered, accused of being a child in an adult's body.

She felt stupid, though she knew she wasn't. She was intelligent, had always been an A student and an overachiever. The fact that her short-term memory came and went didn't make her less intelligent. It just made her feel that way—which made her think other people would feel the same way about her. They would think of her as brain-damaged.

Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of genius, I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

Kate immediately felt like a worm.

I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born.

What did she see in me? What does she see that I don't?

This was just too improbable, a man who didn't think he deserved a prize.

Maybe. Maybe I'm just talking out of my exhaust pipe, and it wouldn't be the first time.

A voice in my head said, can't be helped. Why do I listen to those voices? Common sense dictates that any voice you hear inside your head must be just you, thinking; so, if you know it's just you and you know you're basically an idiot, what possesses you to do what the stupid voice tells you?

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

He was frustrated essentially because he wanted to be Niels Bohr or Albert Einstein, and he knew he wasn't." Weil