Courtney Barnett Quotes

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

'What if?' is just about the worst question I can ask myself, and I want to avoid it at all costs for the rest of my life.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

I worry too much.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

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

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 am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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?

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

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

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.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

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.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.