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  • When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

    Hate   Lying   Hard Times  
  • Being an entrepreneur is sexy... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.

    Sexy   Reality   Self  
  • 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."

    Book   Writing   Self  
    "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.
  • A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

    Self   Doubt   Process  
  • I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

    Thinking   Self   Doubt  
  • If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  • Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.

    Crush   Exercise   Men  
    "Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, The Archipelago of Arrogance". www.tomdispatch.com. April 13, 2008.
  • I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.

    Girl   Thinking   Self  
  • Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

  • I'm just funnier when I'm drunk. Not falling-down drunk, just drunk enough to lose the self-doubt.

    Fall   Self   Drunk  
  • I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.

    Thinking   Self   Ideas  
  • Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.

  • Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

    Elephants   Self   Doubt  
    "I'm 16, lonely and depressed, with nowhere to turn" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2014.
  • After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well.

  • Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

    Insecure   Men   Self  
  • Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.

    Self   Soul   Doubt  
    "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2002.
  • If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.

  • It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"

    Writing   Self   Doubt  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.

    Hurt   Recovery   Fate  
  • 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.

  • Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

    Men   Self   Feelings  
  • You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

    People   Giving   Credit  
    Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Professor T S Eliot (2011). “Letters of T. S. Eliot: 1898-1922”, p.482, Yale University Press
  • Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo is so different than the one I see in a mirror - not to mention the "self" that I see in my mind's eye? Pondering it can pretty easily cast me into a vortex of self-doubt, wondering how the me that people experience - my voice, my personality, my creative expression - is regarded without my knowledge.

    Eye   Mirrors   Self  
  • I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

    "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.
  • What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

    Real   Self   Long  
  • In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.

    Real   Caring   Self  
  • The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're not paying attention. Your body's going to go with the self-doubt and make you feel worse, so by making the adjustments - pulling your shoulders back, standing up straight, walking in a more sort of expansive way - all sorts of little things will help pull you out of that self-doubt.

    Self   Play   Feelings  
    Source: www.marieclaire.com
  • Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  • The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

    Learning   Self   Growing  
  • This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...

    Self   Doubt   Moments  
    "Boris Johnson is NOT running to be the next British prime minister — here are the candidates still in the running" by Adam Payne, uk.businessinsider.com. June 30, 2016.
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