David Nicholls Quotes

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

I do believe I'm not good enough to be a professional dancer. I believe that in my heart.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee!

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I was wracked with insecurity.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

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 feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

I don't feel like I make sense in the world. I don't feel like I look right. I don't feel like I act right or do right. It's very frustrating to me that I just walk around with this all the time.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

I'm never confident about anything, especially with law.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

Boy, I feel more and more undeserving each moment !!

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.