William Butler Yeats Quotes

Lord help me to begin to begin.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

I hope to God that I know what I am doing.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

I find it tricky to make plans.

Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

I'm the worst tweeter ever. I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

This is not a fix; it's a prayer.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overpowering conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day

Why do I always have to be the one to bring the bad news to the people?

I doubted myself for a long time.

When someone says, 'How long do you see yourself captaining for?' you don't really know.

I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.

I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders.

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.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.