Quotes About Self-doubt

I thought I was smart," I said all of a sudden. "I really thought I was smart. But after the last couple of months, I'm not sure. And that's paralyzing, isn't it? to discover you're bad at the one thing you thought you had going for you?

none of us can stop listening. Because what is more transfixing than the sound of people hating you? In the darkest part of our hearts, we used to think that maybe they were right. We don't think that anymore.

Preferir o medo de estar com a pessoa errada por não ser capaz de lidar com o medo de ficar sozinho.

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. Actual formal considerations are almost beyond my capacity. Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately you are always bad before you can get a little better.

What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.

I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search the train station for a serial rapist and I cover my face with a newspaper, wondering if maybe I did it in my sleep. The last thing I stole was an eight-track tape, but to this day I'm unable to enter a store without feeling like a shoplifter. It's all the anxiety with none of the free stuff.

Still, there were moments when, against all reason, I thought I might be a genius. These moments were provoked not by any particular accomplishment but by cocaine and crystal methamphetamine — drugs that allow you to lean over a mirror with a straw up your nose, suck up an entire week's paycheck, and think, "God, I'm smart.

I looked from face to face, exaggerating flaws and reminding myself that these boys did not like me. The hope was that I might crush any surviving atom attraction, but as has been the case for my entire life, the more someone dislikes me the more attractive he becomes.

as I really don't think I draw all that well, but it was interesting to see that some of the drawings worked better than others, and why.

And as she locked the door behind her, a deeply hidden part of her wondered uneasily if she was locking the wolf into its cage . . . or herself safely outside it.

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you.

Don't mask self-doubt with contempt.

Don't let your mind set limits that aren't really there.

Ive definitely got a sense of not being very good at stuff. Its sort of absurd because, you know, Ive done really quite well for myself, but I still really doubt myself. Its just the way I am.

Sometimes I ask myself if I'm accepting too many films.

I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'

I don't think I have achieved anything that I can really be proud of.

It's really hard for me to be around people I admire.

I wasn't that good at football aged 14 or 15. I didn't take it too seriously.

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

All my life I've had this belief that other people are better than me.

Personally, do I feel like an All-Star? I don't think so.