Deborah Meaden Quotes

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

I think all my videos suck.

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

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 definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

I'm never impressed with myself!

Throughout my life, whenever I thought I'm dancing welI, I'm not.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

When somebody used to compliment me, I'd spend 10 minutes trying to talk them out of it.

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.