Jess Phillips Quotes

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, 'You're not good enough.' 'There's always someone more popular.' 'There's always someone more gifted in music.'

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

There's a difference between feeling nervous and feeling: 'I'm not worthy of taking the ice.'

I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.

I understand that feeling of insecurity, like you're not good enough as you are, and you need to change.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.