Colin Wilson Quotes

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

There are a lot of people who don't believe I deserve to be recognized as one of the top-10 best and I don't necessarily disagree with them.

I think everybody is always selling me short, and then I always prove them wrong.

I don't feel like I have anything to prove to the fans in England - but I know that in England they did not see the best of me.

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

I feel I have to earn everybody's respect.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

I'm different. Like, I recognize that, and I need to make sure that I am as prepared, that I understand, that I've done everything I can, knowing that people are gonna wanna say, 'She doesn't belong.' I wanna prove to them I do.

Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

I believe in myself, especially with how hard I've worked. I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself.

In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become anything. It is because we will never believe in ourselves. We will always listen to the mass majority. If everybody's making fun of you and criticizing you, then you know you're on the right track. 'Cause most people ain't got it.

I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.