Quotes About Self-doubt

I can never look at anything I do subjectively - whether it's a Stone Sour record or a Slipknot record, I can never really have my own opinion of it, 'cos in my opinion it's all crap.

I bombed in front of 5,000 people. Anybody that's ever stood in front of 5,000 people that don't like them can tell you, it's an energy associated with that. You don't want to feel that. You ask yourself, 'Do you really really want to do this?'

After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distraught. But now, looking back on it, I think it was the biggest blessing. I was going into every fight thinking I have to win because I am Olympic champion and putting too much pressure on myself. I lost my hunger and stopped enjoying my taekwondo.

I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your best. Onstage, I am good. But talking to someone in the grocery store? Forget about it.

One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

It is strange, but directors have always shown more confidence in my abilities than I've in myself.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

you think it's great, or at least important, or at least the best you can do, or at least the only thing you can do? You can't paint for the judgment of the future. I

We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it." You embrace it. You trust yourself to handle whatever you're dealing with, and don't allow your fear to escalate into uncontrollable doubt. If you ever see me at a game, you'll see no emotion from me.

So everything I do is to minimize the risk of that happening. That helps me fight the mental urge to doubt myself, to create problems that haven't happened and overthink everything that could go wrong.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for 'realistic' goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.

you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-and energy-consuming.

Too much free time is no more than fertilizer for self-doubt and assorted mental tail-chasing. Subtracting the bad does not create the good. It leaves a vacuum. Decreasing income-driven work isn't the end goal. Living more—and becoming more—is.

El perfeccionismo genera indecisión, lo cual conduce a la parálisis.

And when—despite your best efforts—you feel like you're losing at the game of life, remember: Even the best of the best sometimes feel this way.

Miller, BJ: "'Don't believe everything you think.

The crisis with all creative work is that it requires us to trust that generative voice inside us while also silencing the negative ones. It's so easy to mix them all up and end up quietly abandoning our ambitions.