Edie McClurg Quote: 'Self-doubt kills talent. ...' @FEELquotes

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

J. Cole

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Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Mariella Frostrup

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The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

Robert Lopez

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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.

Claire Danes

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

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I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

Emily Mortimer

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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Kobe Bryant

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The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.

Louis Theroux

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As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Jo Nesbo

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I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

Hugh Laurie

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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.

Fatema Mernissi

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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

Jack Canfield

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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

Hannah Kent

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I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

Elaine Stritch

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I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Shiloh Fernandez

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I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

Angela Bassett

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No talent lies in my dancing.

Emilia Clarke

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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Joseph Addison

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