Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

When people have recently asked me my profession, I have not dared to reply.

… we would move forward in jerks, become scared, and retreat.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

I'm not great at trying new things.

You do have this circumstance in Karachi that because people know things are changing, the stakes are higher. Everyone is thinking, "My home is threatened, my job is threatened, my identity is threatened, my world is threatened." And that creates a very particular sort of climate, that is linked.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. 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.

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

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

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.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

I'm anything but confident.

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

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

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.