Self-doubt Quotes - Page 6

• There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

  Al Pacino

  Self, Doubt, Events

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• It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

  Jacqueline McKenzie

  Self, Doubt, Growing

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• As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Motivation, Self, Doubt

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• I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Pain, Believe, Self

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• 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.

  Anna C Salter

  Hurt, Recovery, Fate

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• When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Art, Strong, Sex

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• 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.

  John Galt

  Men, Self, Feelings

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• 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.

  Amy Cuddy

  Self, Play, Feelings

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Careers, Self

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

  Garson Kanin

  Self Confidence, Doubt, Arrogant

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• Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

  Adam Brody

  Self, Insecurity, Doubt

  "The O.C.: The Chrismukkah That Almost Wasn't". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Doubt, Poison

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• I learned that I was able to focus. I've always thought of myself as somebody who is like either it's there or it isn't there. I really worked at this, and I focused, and I was able to replace self-doubt with focus. That was something new for me to say self-doubt is there, but it does not need to be in the front row. You can ask it to take a back seat and replace that front row seat with focus.

  Jenny Slate

  Self, Focus, Doubt

  Source: collider.com

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• I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Decision, Doubt

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• 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.

  Deborah Reber

  Girl, Thinking, Self

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• 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.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Assessment, Self

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'

  Jack Canfield

  Disappointment, Self, People

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• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

  Albert Bandura

  Cutting, Self, People

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• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Learning, Self, Growing

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• Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

  Mason Cooley

  Courage, Self, Doubt

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• A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

  Robert Sheckley

  Self, Doubt, Process

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• Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

  Monica Raymund

  Self, Rejection, Doubt

  "Making ‘A Better Holiday’" by Monica Raymund, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Giving, Credit

  Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Professor T S Eliot (2011). “Letters of T. S. Eliot: 1898-1922”, p.482, Yale University Press

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• Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

  Aimee Mullins

  Self, Doubt, May

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• Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Doubt, Enemy

  Brian Tracy (2006). “The Psychology of Selling: How to Sell More, Easier, and Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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