Internal Doubt Quotes

Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.

I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.

You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.