Quotes About Self-doubt

hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can't trust your brain

One of the hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can't trust your brain anymore.

The Identity Conversation looks inward: it's all about who we are and how we see ourselves. How does what happened affect my self-esteem, my self-image, my sense of who I am in the world? What impact will it have on my future? What self-doubts do I harbor?

Many people have a secret fear that they are bad.

Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?

I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person.

Isn't it natural that I should try to belittle all the things I can't offer you?

What I had instead was the ache of waiting and the fear I wasn't worthy.

I wanted power so badly that I had convinced myself I already had too much of it, that I was an evil schemer who might destroy everyone around me through the poison seeping out of my pores. I was appalled by my own majesty. I wanted someone to betray.

Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other: do I have to swallow it?

I quite cold-bloodedly reached the conclusion that I would never be able to accomplish anything useful so long as I was worried.

Necesito prepararme. Y tengo que hacer artículos como si ya estuviese preparada. Por eso esta perpetua sensación de estar engañando.

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

The problem is I don't have respect for the films I make after I've made them. I detach myself and get embarrassed when I watch them later.

I don't think any actor really thinks they're good. I watch my own work and I'm like, Oh God, this is terrible, that's terrible.

I watched artists who blew up before me become parodies of themselves. I wasn't listening to people when they told me that I had nothing to say, and I can't listen to people now when they tell me I'm the bomb, even though I want to.

Sometimes I'll be watching a movie then think to myself that I could do a better job.

Going to a theatre and watching yourself on the big screen is a nightmare.

A player checking Twitter at halftime? I've seen it. A player tweeting out a grievance with an organization about playing time or how he is being utilized? I see it far too often. But the most concerning? Watching a really talented player corrupt his mind and confidence by reading all the critiques from anonymous football experts around the world.

I have never bought a swim suit because of my fear for water.

On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.