Quotes About Self-doubt

Emotional Reasoning. This involves reasoning from the way you feel, such as: "I feel like an idiot, so I must be one" or "I feel hopeless, so things are never going to get better." Or in the case of panic attacks, "I feel like I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown, so I must be in a lot of danger.

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

If I'm hanging out with you, I can't even tell whether I like you or not because I'm too worried about whether you like me.

The weird thing is that I cared about him at the same time I found him gross. He grossed me out... And that I was so deep in my problem that I couldn't accept real, genuine, nonsexual or nonromantic or non-prettiness-type interest in me even if it was offered to me.

In short that 99% of the head's thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself.

potential may be worse than none, Jim.

Worship your intellect, being seing as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge og being found out. And so on.

It is at once too noisy and too quiet to do any real work, and I have no ideas that do not seem to me shallow and overwrought.

STREITFELD: Scared is a word that you often used to describe yourself. WALLACE: Writers tend to be shy, bookish people. We're always on the fringes of the party, resenting the attention paid to others. And then finally when attention is paid to you, it is great and yet part of it sucks you liver out. Deep down it was the thing you always felt would make everything OK, and then you get it, and find everything isn't OK, and you're still scared.

But jealous souls will not be answered so. They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

He will fence with his own shadow.

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

What if I've been wrong all these years? he thought. What if the infinite universe does not have a personal grudge against me?

A publicidade moderna procura promover não tanto a auto-indulgência, mas a autodúvida. Ela procura criar necessidades, não satisfazê-las, gerar novas ansiedades, em vez de atenuar antigas.

Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same as the writer you become.

Stupid. He was stupid. He was tired of being stupid.

Ainda que eu seja mais uma ninguém a vagar sem rosto pelas rodas de livros, pelas prateleiras, tenho a sensação de ser uma penetra. Tanta coisa escrita, tanta gente escrevendo. Por que eu escrevo? O que eu tenho a dizer que já não tenha sido dito de milhares de maneiras diferentes? A quem interessa o meu corpo de letras?

I am afraid to be who I am. There is a total silence within me. I get scared.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Es horrible pensar, como me pasa cada vez que empiezo un libro, que ya no tengo, que nunca he tenido talento alguno.

AÈ™a-i de când lumea, c? cine se introspecteaz? prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine însuÈ™i, în cele din urm?, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine însuÈ™i, acela nu-i capabil s? ia o hot?râre.

I remembered the young man with his broad white smile and his ashen hair streaked with gold; the basted perfection of his firm flesh, and the grace of his hand clasping mine. I slotted the notes back inside, slid my purse away, and wondered: which of my defects did he notice first?

You have no right to assume that you'll be able to write because you could write yesterday.