Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

I'm my own worst enemy.

I think I'm my own worst enemy.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

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.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.