Louis Aragon Quotes

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

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

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

Maybe I think too much.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

The monsters are in your own head.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

I'm the kind of person who can paralyze myself very easily by over-thinking decisions.

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?

I am scared to answer questions. I do not think and answer. I say whatever comes to my mind.

I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.

This constant feeling of, 'I have to have everything figured out' is not going to get anyone anywhere.

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.