Sheila Heti Quotes

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

My personality is a personality where I get really, really nervous and doubtful about almost everything, which is always a work in progress to build up my confidence a little bit more.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

Even when I become a regular, I don't feel comfortable and try to always improve more.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.