Quotes About Self-doubt

Honest autoethnographic exploration generates a lot of fears and self-doubt and emotional pain. Just when you think you can't stand the pain anymore that's when the real work begins. Then there is the vulnerability of revealing yourself, not being able to take back what you 've written or having any control over how readers interpret your story.

I am bombarded not only with all the cultural expectations for professional success, but I also encounter personal ones—like the ones for a perfect home and perfect children. The digital age only makes this worse. When the web plasters perfection everywhere, it's easy to feel intimidated by the comparison. It makes me ask, am I doing enough?

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

She also wants the freedom to be able to act as she deems appropriate, without fearing or dreading the feedback, the sensing the disapproval and disappointment. Of always letting him down. Of having to check herself. She doesn't want any more cold air between them, but mostly she doesn't like to have to second-guess herself at a job that she knows she's more than capable of doing.

Du warst die Einzige, die mir in diesem Gespräch aufrichtig gestanden hat, dass sie keine Angst hat zu fliegen, sondern vielmehr befürchtet, es nicht zu können«

There's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't want to leave the dark behind.

She was afraid to be alone. She didn't know what to do; she couldn't spend another moment thinking about this, beating herself up about it, but she didn't feel it was right not to either.

She knew she was deliberately finding flaw with everything about herself, and finding very little to celebrate. She second-guessed everything she said and did.

She was feeling far from inspired and her self-belief was at an all-time low.

I want to get back to doing what it is that I love, what makes my world normal again. And I want people to believe in me again. I want you to look at me and listen to me without doubt that I can see so obviously. I'm second-guessing myself enough as it is. I don't need it from everyone else too.

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing

that gloomy kind of mood where you remember all of your mistakes and none of your good decisions

I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved.

When you are lacking in confidence, the last thing you want to do is perform.

I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

I feel like when I get into most rooms, melodies come really easily to me, and they sound good in my head. I never really know until I hear the song back and it's finished if it actually is good.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.

I put the most pressure on myself. I'm so critical and I think that's a hard mentality to live with. You're not really satisfied with anything you do.

Of course I'm happy when people mention his name and mine in the same breath. It's like a dream. But I know they are overpraising 'Your Name' because I am absolutely not at Miyazaki's level. Honestly, I really don't want Miyazaki to see it because he will see all its flaws.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.