Jack Dee Quotes

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

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

'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'm afraid to fail again.

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.

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.

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

Always think the worst. That way you will avoid too much disappointment in life.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

To a certain extent, I think I've tried to train myself to not dive too deep into things or get my hopes too way up, because the fear of disappointment and whatnot is only natural.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the next thing right.

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?

If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.

Worry is negative goal setting.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

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