Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

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 honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

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.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

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

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.

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

I never talk about work in progress because once I talk about it I don't do it anymore.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!

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

I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.'