Self-doubt Quotes - Page 5

• The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize.

  Stephen Colbert

  Self, Doubt, Enormous

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• The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That's how you break away from the pack and leave the rest of the sickly herd for the hungry wolves of shame and self-doubt. And for all I know, actual wolves.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Self, Doubt

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• Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

  Wallace Stegner

  Father, Writing, Self

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

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• Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

  David Brock

  Journey, Sight, Self

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• I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.

  Mary Harron

  Ambition, Thinking, Self

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

  Saul Bass

  Self, Challenges, Feelings

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• Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

  Rebecca Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Emotional

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• Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help young children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome overcome their struggles with the really tough issues blocking their positive growth and development. Therapists, educators and parents caring for autistic children who endure a heavy load of anger, distrust, difficult interpersonal relationships, poor self-esteem and self-doubt need this excellent book.

  Liane Holliday Willey

  Children, Self Esteem, Block

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• Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

  Don Roff

  Fear, Creativity, Self

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• [My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

  John le Carre

  Real, Self, Doubt

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• I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

  Robert Sheckley

  Hard Work, Writing, Self

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• We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

  John McCain

  Self, Doubt, Assets

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• Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dream, Self, Skills

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• When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

  Jennifer Lee

  Self, Doubt, Criticism

  "Super Inspiring Graduation Advice From Frozen Director, Jennifer Lee" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)

  Anton Yelchin

  Mean, Emotional, Self

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

  Joan Osborne

  Self, Doubt, Suffering

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• I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

  Anthony Doerr

  Jobs, Writing, Opportunity

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

  Joe Mantello

  Self, People, Doubt

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• At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

  William Ivey Long

  Self Confidence, People, Insecurity

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• I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."

  Lizz Winstead

  Book, Writing, Self

  "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Spiritual, Fire, Self

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.

  Will Smith

  Self, Keys, Doubt

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• Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Self, Profound, Doubt

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• The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Editing, Self

  "Foer play" by Clark Collis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Humble, Self, Profound

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