Quotes About Self-doubt

Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

I always thought I was really thick.

I go to sleep every single night thinking I'm not good enough. I really do. I don't know if that's healthy or not. But I really do have a fear of not being good, and I don't like that.

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

Amy, honey." He rubbed my arm gently, as if telling me bad news. "You shouldn't listen to me. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

At times Leonardo was troubled by his lack of achievement. As a young man he appears to have developed a reputation for melancholia. "Leonardo," wrote a friend, "why so troubled?" A sad refrain runs through his notebooks: "Tell me if anything was ever done," he often sighs. Or in another place: "Tell me if ever I did a thing.

It's amazing — and poignant — to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.

I was overstating my case. I wasn't at all sure I had a case and I was overstating it. I have a tendency sometimes to start saying things I don't necessarily actually think, because I don't want people to leap too soon to conclude that I can't possibly think what I think they think I can't possibly think.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.