No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.
I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.
I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.
The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.
It's hard when you get down. You start pressing a little bit trying to get back in the game.
What we resist persists.
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.
When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
People who think about the past have no future.
I've got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I'm working - and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.
I didn't want to get caught up in the mind-set that, 'Wait a minute, I'm ahead of Magic. I better slow down.'
Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
I find it very difficult when, due to a lack of confidence, I don't produce and lose matches I could have won.
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
My biggest enemy is typically me.
