Insecurity Quotes - Page 22

• Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

  Bruce Schneier

  Lying, Law, Secret

  "NSA secrets kill our trust" by Bruce Schneier, www.cnn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own.

  Jessie J

  Thinking, Way, Have Confidence

  "The Very Colorful Jessie J". Interview With Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. April 10, 2012.

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• During these unstable times, let go of any fear or insecurity in your emotions. Look for new ways that you can be rewarded for your efforts. Believe in yourself and your ability to create new streams of income. Rather than continuing in a season of fear, let this be a time to transition into a season of creative success!

  Barbara Wentroble

  Letting Go, Believe, Effort

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• I think that some people from other regions expect us to be like that so I think they overcompensate for that sometimes and they're victims to their own insecurity.

  Immortal Technique

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

  John Lennon

  Jobs, Boredom, Life Is

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• My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

  Felicity Kendal

  Mother, Father, Jealous

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• Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

  Delta Goodrem

  Cancer, Radiation, Operations

  "'I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed'". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

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• I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

  Barry Gibb

  Insecure, People, Fame

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• Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get that, more and more. You'll start to see a little bit more of Dirk's backstory, why he behaves the way he does, and why he's doing what he's doing. I see a lot of his vulnerability, his sensitivity and his insecurity.

  Samuel Barnett

  Agency, Littles, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of ISIS. His assuredness of his own correctness seems also rooted in arrogance reflecting his fundamental insecurity. This insecurity and his belief in his own rightness, when combined with his success at making money, leads him to be self-reliant in his decision-making, which could result in his taking risks with threatening or using nuclear weapons.

  David Krieger

  Military, Self, Isis

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  Lake Bell

  Issues, Tragedy, Skins

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• I was surprised how much Andy Cohen reveal about his insecurities and your personal life.

  Anderson Cooper

  Personal Life

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• My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

  Ai Weiwei

  Scared, States, Angst

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

  James Van Der Beek

  Thinking, Appreciate, Facts

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• I think that might also be part of the life of a creative person - those sort of ups and downs and security and insecurity. It's just part of the lot in life when you're pushing yourself and hoping to always keep growing and expanding. It's emotionally tricky.

  Emma Stone

  Thinking, Creative, Growing

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

  Tony Blair

  Views, Fragility, Entering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in a future that portends zero opportunities and zero hopes. This is a generation that has become the new register for disposability, redundancy, and new levels of surveillance and control.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, Zero, Real

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

  Tony Blair

  Fall, Keys, Order

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.

  Brian Chippendale

  Fall, Singing, Energy

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Princess, Fragility, Position

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Love fulfilled sees where we could have gone the way of love before, if we'd known how, and how insecurities limited many of our choices. Love fulfilled perceives new meaning and higher reasons behind many of the mysteries of why things happened as they did. Living from the heart is business - the business of caring for self and others.

  Doc Childre

  Love, Heart, Caring

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• When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

  Melanie Martinez

  Song, Baby, Writing

  Source: nocountryfornewnashville.com

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• Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Years, Balance

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• I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

  Drew Carey

  Missing, Economic, Paychecks

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie, Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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