Dennis Lindley Quotes

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

People will feel the way they feel.

I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.

I don't know what people think of me.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?

I am what I feel and think and do.

No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.

There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you’re insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, “Hey, I’m a pretty smart guy and I’m pulling it together …”

I'm never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Yes, I'll go out and meet people.' Most of the time, you wake up, look in the mirror, and want to give up. And that doesn't change. It isn't awful; it's just the way I feel.

Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.

I don't know if I'm 'normal.'

I fall more on the insecure side of things.

Confidence is a fragile thing.

My confidence sort of comes and goes very quickly.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

I'm also not sure that I look up to others as knowing what the hell is going on, except maybe Andre Agassi, who, when I interviewed him, while covering the U.S. Open, seemed to know what was going on. My basic assumption is that we're all confused all the time. Some people do act more confident, though. Maybe they aren't confused. I am. I'm confused.

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

I think I may well be a Jew.