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“Every job I take, within minutes Im thinking, I cant do this. I think its what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. Its what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.”

People Thinking Jobs Doubt Minutes Hard Work Harder Granted Cant Work Harder Swagger

Author:Ray Winstone

“A deity who remains silent and invisible should not get angry or surprised at doubt of his reality.”

Should Reality Doubt Remains Angry Silent Invisible Deities

Author:Graham Kendall

“It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.”

People Self Difficult Doubt Judging Extremes Attractive Self-doubt Reassuring

Author:Claire Danes

“I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.”

Would Be Space Doubt Ashes

Author:Scott Bakula

“Im going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.”

May Doubt Rise Above

Author:T.I.

“... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.”

May Book Able Suffering Literature Doubt Mere Contribution Usual I May Not Be

Book:The Journals of George Eliot

Source: The Journals of George Eliot

“Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.”

Heart Soul Individual Perfect Brain Doubt Philosopher Satisfied No Doubt Proportion Seats Contentment Murmuring

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.”

Source: Selected essays

“I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.”

Ifs Men Doubt Vanity

Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.”

Feels Play Shows Actors Easy Simple Walks Doubt New York Scene Hollywood Nervous Auditions Adjustment Intimidated Doubting Yourself

Author:Ben Feldman

“If you face just one opponent, and you doubt yourself, you're out-numbered”

Ifs Faces Doubt Opponents Just One

Author:Dan Millman

“I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.”

Needs Doubt Anxious Realised Nagging

Author:Catherine Tate

“Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Actors Felt Acting Behinds Doubt Changed Industry My Way Fraud Inappropriate

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Self Matter Turns Doubt Projects No Matter What Commit Ships Self-doubt

Author:Spike Jonze

“Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.”

Ifs Children Character Felt Support Doubt Streets Childhood Couple Spring Towns Our Family No Doubt Flaws Jersey Payment New Jersey Love Of Money Character Flaws I Love Money

Author:Michael Ian Black

“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”

Ifs Children Grows Imagination Growing Up Doubt My Imagination Children Imagination Eggplant

Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.”

People Film Acting Doubt Late Music Is Sincerity Being Myself Film Acting

Author:Riz Ahmed

“I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.”

Self Doubt Stem Self-doubt Self Deprecating Self Deprecation Self Deprecating Humor

Author:Charlie Cox

“If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.”

Ifs Hate Known Doubt I Hate Actresses

Author:Jaime Murray

“Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.”

World Has Beens Whole Language Doubt Universal Catholic Empires Governing Uniting Catholic Religion

Book:Anacalypsis

Source: Anacalypsis

“Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.”

Wells May Has Beens Done Government Form House Speak Results Accepting Doubt Position Regard No Doubt Rejects Resolution Documents Treaties Proceeding Propriety Quebec

Author:Thomas D'Arcy McGee

“There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.”

Ifs Doubt Fire Revolutionary No Doubt Continents

Author:Mikhail Tukhachevsky

“It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.”

Doubt Stranger Pleasant Respectability

Author:Maud Younger

“You will find that free advice about your money is always available. It's usually those who lean back and give you the most 'positive' advice whose finances are bordering on catastrophe. They are often wrong, but never in doubt.”

Giving Money Doubt Advice Available Finance Catastrophe Free Advice

Book:The power of money dynamics

Source: The power of money dynamics

“When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.”

Doubt Paragraph When In Doubt

Author:Grace S. Richmond

“In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.”

Men Faces Certain Passion Doubt Figures Divine Tests No Doubt Slips Conceited Test Of Time

Book:First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky

Source: First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky

“Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of others. Although each of us is unique, there are familiar responses and doubts and joys that let us know we have kin. We are not, after all, too strange to live.”

Knows Seems Beautiful Joy Family Doubt Strange Friends Unique Lonely Response Painful Familiar Hopeful Shocking Family Friends

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.”

Ifs Trying Stills Felt Responsibility Doubt Media Protect Newspapers No Doubt Assault Royal Eighty Monarchy Royal Family Broadsheet

Author:Max Hastings

“Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.”

Character Evil Doubt Crime Cold Terrible Prove Landscape Novelists Heat Reasonable Good And Evil Brutal Nurture Frozen Vivid Blunt Reasonable Doubt Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Author:Lee Child

“I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.”

Feels Doubt Fronts Cameras

Author:Anushka Sharma

“Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.”

Knows Men Character Doubt Males Vices No Doubt Vice Versa Understand Me

Author:Peter Straub

“If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.”

Ifs Knows Should Mind Looks Important Self Hate Party Doubt Crazy Exercise Madness Size Refuse Pursuit Judged Regimes Never Ending Dieting Arses

Author:Arabella Weir

“Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.”

People Character Doubt Personality Suspects Fascinated Anguish Flawed

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.”

Faces Leader Doubt Imagine Duty Disappointment Pursue Palestinian Hostility Port

Author:Shimon Peres

“Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.”

“At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.”

Ifs Knows Littles Whole Helping Use Growth Know How Doubt Mankind Danger Produce Mortals Consumption Technological

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.”

Persons Different Moments Humor Today Political Doubt Disappointment Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.”

People Humor Evil Religious Numbers Doubt Wise Blind Demon Deaf Plague Malice Fever Large Numbers Crippled Blind People

Author:Martin Luther

“So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.”

World Should Different Humor Eye Heaven Religious Doubt Heard Angel Deserve Ears Tempted Syllables

Author:Martin Luther

“It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?”

Men States Government Doubt Supreme Wealthy Tyrants Multitudes Supreme Power

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.”

World War Doubt Fronts Position Europe Army War Of The Worlds No Doubt World War 2

Author:Joseph Stalin

“I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Suffering Common Doubt Fate Easier Succeed Misery Unhappiness Hysterical

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.”

Thinking Hard Doubt Pressure Coaches No Doubt

Author:Roger Federer

“In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.”

Should Humans Turns Causes Doubt Effects Gold Weight Instruments Vain Wheels Gravity Quests Perpetual Remedy Seekers Ingenuity Speculators Chimera Perpetual Motion

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.”

People Men Trying War Bigs Levels Doubt Wonderful Men And Women Soldier Lots Of Money Wounded Do The Best Angst Big Business

Author:Jon Anderson

“Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.”

Loss Doubt Poison Faith In Yourself Loss Of Faith

Book:Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel

Source: Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel

“Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.”

Doubt

Book:Just One Year

Source: Just One Year

“Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.”

Doubt Player Guitar Vans Guitar Player Van Halen

Author:Zakk Wylde

“I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.”

Way Looks Littles Different Home Sides Doubt Seeing Goes On Holiday Backwards

Book:Underdogs

Source: Underdogs

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