Quotes About Self-doubt

I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.

J'ai l'impression de me trouver là par erreur. Ça a toujours été comme ça. Déjà quand j'étais étudiante ou lycéenne, et déjà bien plus tôt à l'école primaire, j'avais toujours ce sentiment.

I do still get intimidated by certain things.

I don't actually get that many DMs. I tell myself that it's because guys might be intimidated, but I'm not that sure.

The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you hear people laughing and you're not, you start to question if maybe there's something wrong with you for not getting it.

I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.

I was 18 and had an inverted light bulb moment where I thought that nothing I could do or say or how I looked was ever going to be good enough.

You might have a worry that's so stupid it just peters out by itself, like a bad investment.

Part of the job involves thinking about things and eliminating them. You spend a lot of time coming up with ideas that are terrible and hating them and hating yourself.

I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

That's the downside of total creative control: You're isolated and after a while you can lose a little perspective. But I've taught myself not to listen to my own self-doubt.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

When I fought Benson Henderson for the first time, or Jamie Varner, it was always like, 'Oh man... I'm in here fighting these guys. Do I really belong here?' That's all changed now.

From January to December of 2019, I crumbled, to be real, and I think by the end of 2019 I had beaten myself up in every possible way to the point where I wasn't even a person. I was fully at rock bottom.

What's so crazy is I always looked at Jay Z and guys on the caliber of Jay Z like they just the big dogs. I didn't think they listen to my music or even know who I am.

I keep asking myself if my joints are going to hold up.

I don't like the pressure to try to tell the best jokes. I'm not good at jokes.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

there's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing it, or immediately after. This, coupled with the chorus of critical reaction from those privileged to take a first look, is almost enough to discourage further work entirely.

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

The self-care and wellness movements are simply contemporary manifestations of Rousseau's vision of the "plenitude" of the inner self. That self is good, and its recovery is the original fount of human happiness. But it has been polluted by an outer society that feeds us unhealthy foods full of pesticides and artificial flavors, that sets goals and expectations that build anxiety and self-doubt, and by competitive urges that undermine our self-esteem.

no me atrevo a mirarme en los espejos, por si es verdad que no tengo oreja, y me peino el pelo para ese lado, por ocultar lo que no sé si no existe." Fragmento de: Francisco Umbral. "La belleza convulsa". iBooks.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.