Winston Churchill Quotes

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

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.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

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

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

I've struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a 'prison of perfectionism,' holding myself to a standard I couldn't possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure.

I am very hard on myself. I know the slightest loss of concentration, the slightest mistake will be punished. I try to limit it as much as possible.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward. It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

Fear too often spells failure.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

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

He who considers too much will perform little.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.