Quotes About Self-doubt

Sie hat nie herausgefunden, ob der Jäger sie verraten hat oder sie sich selbst.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2 000 people.

jealous men only tormented themselves.

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

Io non ho il coraggio di alzare gli occhi e capisco che veramente sono peggio dell'edera, dove m'attacco muoio e forse c'ha ragione lui che non faccio altro che scaricargli addosso tutte le mie paranoie, cioè dire sempre, fai te che per me è lo stesso.

How often – even before we began – have we declared a task "impossible"? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate? . . . A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.

My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and talk about what it's like to be a writer. I often feel like I'm pretending, because it's still hard for me to believe it when I see someone holding a book that I've written.

I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can't even see myself standing in their shadow.

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

'Fix' - definitely, when I first heard the demo of that song, it was kind of intimidating because of the high falsetto parts. It was one of those things. I got into the vocal booth and wasn't sure I could do it or how well I could do it. There was something about the song that I really took to.

I'm not so vocal. I try to get loud, but my voice will just crack or something.

I don't have the vocal dexterity, nor do I have the desire to put myself in among the giants.

I didn't want to put out 'The Unseen' because I thought I would be criticized. I thought everyone would think the sped-up vocals were a gimmick. I had to be convinced to put it out.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

I have a pretty lousy voice.

I was holding my mum's hands and praying. Will people accept me with my pimples and hoarse voice?

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I used to hate the sound of my voice.

Everyone sort of has that voice of self-doubt in their head, but as an artist, you relinquish your right to have that voice.