Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

It's easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things.

I see the bad in everything I do.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream…you!

Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey.

Worry is negative goal setting.

The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.