Quotes About Self-doubt

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

He'd worn himself ragged with second-guessing until his head felt like a tinful of bees.

people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.

What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

But where is the brilliant research, the enlightening books, the masterpieces I used to dream of producing? Nowhere. Instead I write notes about the shortcomings of others. Easy. So easy. What about my own?

He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I.

You need to trust that your art, once created, has a value apart from you, just as a child, come into the world, has a value separate from the parents who gave it life. When you give in to self-loathing, insecurity, or stage fright, you are looking at your work from the outside, and the outside is a shapeless darkness that contains all your self-doubt and fears.

It is quite possible that I have underestimated you, Gwyneth. But that's no reason for you to overestimate yourself.

Nu te increde in nimeni . Nici in propriile-ti sentimente .

Fear of success can be as paralyzing as fear of failure.

Almost always, the work an author thinks is their worst turns out to be quite good. Sometimes it's even considered their best stuff.

The only part of her that she had to leave behind was the part of her that doubted what she was capable of.

What if it isn't good enough? What if this is the book that will make everyone hate me?

He would teach himself to dislike what he actually liked, to approve of what he did not totally understand, in the hopes that he would come out the other side with something that resembled inspiration, something that would make him more famous than Chris Burden or even Hobart Waxman.

Know the difference between its and it's, between lay and lie: you lay the form rejection slip on the table; you lie on the bed filled with the anguish of self-doubt and feelings of utter worthlessness.

but I couldn't decide if I was a courageous person in real life or whether I could only sing onstage. In that way I haven't changed much in thirty years at all.

Fear of failure is an insidious thing. Leads people to pretend they never wanted a medal in the first place.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

So now you be facing me for ideas, eh? What makes you think a simple, brainless woman like myself would have any idea on how to accomplish men's work? Why, I feel faint just trying to think any thought at all. (Cat)

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

The world doesn't hate you as much as you think it does.

Do not entertain the enemy's questions about how valuable you are.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad ' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.