Fay Wray Quotes

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.

Self-doubt kills talent.

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'm too neurotic to ever feel good. If I ever felt good, I think something horrible would happen.

The only person holding you back is you.

I was just unhappy - and lonely at times. There was always that other side of me nagging away, bringing me down. The anger. Even after good games, I just went home and looked at the bad points. It was just nuts.

For me, I've always been the guy who self-sabotages.

I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.

Nobody can pull you down more than you.

I don't know about the totally happy album, though. I don't know if that will ever come from me.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

From what I came from, all the negative criticism - that keeps me from embracing that title of being the best. Because I always feel like there is another level I have to get to.

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.

After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.

A lot of people don’t just go ahead and try things. They’ll have an idea and they’ll say — they’ll convince themselves or other people will convince them that it can’t be done. You know, one or the other. Actually I think that the first is even more dangerous and more serious. It’s convincing yourself that it can’t be done.

Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel.

Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

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

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.