Quotes About Self-doubt

Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

To be honest, I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface of where I want to be. If someone asked me for an autograph, I'd be like, 'Me? I haven't done anything yet !' I have much more to offer the world.

I always wanted to do something with music, but to be honest, I never thought I'd be good enough.

We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

Elliot Rawley was a drinker, Cy's mother had been right. And he was a poor drinker. One that let the demons of the bottle into his head when he tipped it back, demons that went about unloosing all the trouble they could find stashed in the catacombs of his mind. Every tragic thing that had ever happened, every self-doubt, every delusion, freed itself from bondage and revisited him when he drank.

You look at your face in the mirror. You wonder if you'll ever be able to use your body again for more than basic living.

She says she's proud of me. I think she might say it only to reassure herself that she's a good mother.

Some days I think I'm too stupid to be let out on my own, and then there's the days that prove it.

Circe]: What is the matter? Does my kiss offend you? Do I have bad breath from hunger? Have I neglected to cleanse my sweaty armpits?

you said I like to be admired, do you remember? You said I would love anybody who admired me. Dont hate this hard thing I am about to say my darling but sometimes I think its you that would love anybody. Sometimes it seems so astonishing that you should love me that I think you must only want me because you lost so many other things. It isnt just that, is it?

Am I really mentally ill? Disordered? Defective? Or am I just weak of character and just not trying hard enough?

APRIL 19 I LOVE YOU regardless of how well you are performing. Sometimes you feel uneasy, wondering if you are doing enough to be worthy of My Love. No matter how exemplary your behavior, the answer to that question will always be no. Your performance and My Love are

Many women feel that no matter how competent others think they are, or no matter how much they achieve, they are really just fooling everyone.

These women often believe they are fooling anyone who thinks well of them because without any warning the switch inside their heads could turn off and their feelings of inadequacy would be exposed. They worry that they won't have enough time, that their systems won't work, or that people will drop in unexpectedly. Any minute things could fall apart.

I think Vaughn has Social Anxiety Disorder but he's too much of a control freak to give in to it.

Artists are often victims in a way of their own perceived quality gaps. They struggle to match the ideas in their minds to what they can manifest in the world.

One of his sayings is, 'When the walls fall down, all we have left is the enemy within.

I typically avoid looking in the mirror for fear I will accidentally intimidate myself.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.