Andy Mineo Quotes

The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your own worst enemy.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

Most of us talk ourselves out of our own ideas, because we're our own worst enemy.

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.

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

If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

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.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

As women, we can over-think things so much that we silence our intuition and only focus on the reasons something won't work.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

The only person holding you back is you.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

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

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?

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.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

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.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Self-doubt kills talent.

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.