Joseph J. Ellis Quotes

I'm really scared of failing.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

I just don't want to fail, to be honest.

I have trust issues.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.

There's really kind of nobody we can trust.

The fearful are the failing.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.