Doubt Quotes - Page 31

• If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.

  Rob Payne

  Cells, Trying, Connections

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  California, Secret, Trying

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Past, Vision, Training

  "Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 1, 1911.

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• I know the way, what I have to walk. I know the spiritual power, world-creating energy, what I have to lay its account with. There's no doubt: we come out into a better still world part and we will be delighted in unfailing fairnesses.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Spiritual, Creating, Energy

  "The Otherworld". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,

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• You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.

  Meryl Streep

  Talent, Boring, Horrible

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• Every job I take, within minutes Im thinking, I cant do this. I think its what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. Its what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

  Ray Winstone

  Jobs, Hard Work, Thinking

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• It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

  Claire Danes

  Self, People, Judging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Honor

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.

  John Zorn

  Way, Knows, No Doubt

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.

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• Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Perfect, Soul

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.91

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• When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.

  Ben Feldman

  New York, Simple, Play

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• Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Children, Spring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Acting, Film

  "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.

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• If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.

  Jaime Murray

  Hate, Actresses, Known

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Catholic Religion, World, Uniting

  Godfrey Higgins (2014). “Anacalypsis”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

  Peter Straub

  Character, Men, Vices

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.

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• It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.

  Maud Younger

  Stranger, Pleasant, Respectability

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• In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Passion, Conceited, Men

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.

  Rajneesh

  Waiting, Psychology, Body

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.

  Anushka Sharma

  Cameras, Feels, Fronts

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• It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

  George W. Bush

  Disappointment, Humor, Political

  Speech at Annual National Prayer Breakfast, www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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• It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wise, History, Heaven

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.217

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• There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

  Aristotle

  Men, Tyrants, States

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.98, Aristotle

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• I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Suffering, Would Be

  "Studies on Hysteria". Book by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, as translated by Nicola Luckhurst (2004), 1895.

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• I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

  Roger Federer

  Thinking, Pressure, Coaches

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