It’s after college that I started to tell myself that you have to persevere, and you have to sit in discomfort and let all the doubts and questions you have… they sometimes just have to sit around you, and you can’t answer them.
Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.
There isn’t one celebrity I’ve worked with who doesn’t have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn’t the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets.
I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.
If you read Keats’s poems, they’re often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
You can’t imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.
I don’t have any doubts about how to play at the Bernabeu.
In Ronald Reagan’s chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.
It is strange: I love to be in front of the audience, but I have this opposite side that is afraid of meeting people, that doesn’t want to talk. I feel it’s like having a little hard stone inside me of problems, doubts, and shyness.
For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one.
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
You will be hard pressed to read another book that understands you as well as ‘Leaves of Grass’ does. It was made for you in the way that the constellations were made for you. It understands and makes space for your doubts, your love, the guilt and passions of your life and waits for you.
Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading ‘The Naked and the Dead’ made him despair of his own ‘confined talents.’
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
You have to be smart on your feet. It will be hard on wickets where the ball will keep low. Hopefully, you can get one to fly, and that puts doubts in the batsman’s mind.
Every win that I’ve been going through, it’s been securing anyone’s doubts or even my own doubts about whether I belong with these guys, playing these high-level tournaments.
People believe in Bernie, people trust him, people respect him, they know he says what he means, he means what he says, so if you’re trying to defeat him in an election, what you’re trying to do is create doubts about that.
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
If you’ve not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that’s when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing.
Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can’t answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
Finally, ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’ happened. The director had doubts if a city-bred, fair-looking boy would fit the role of a village kabbadi player.
In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.
I create doubt in the reader’s mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
I have never had doubts about the courage of the young men and women we sent overseas wearing the uniform.
I just always knew that’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician. I never had any doubts.
Every player has their doubts in their self, but they need support.
I did my first series lead back in 1991 on a show called ‘Reasonable Doubts’ and have done many shows with other actors who are deaf. But ‘Switched at Birth’ is the first TV show where there is more than one actor who is deaf or hard of hearing and who are series regulars.
When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you’ve developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.
Hmm… at some point when I was making ‘Postcards,’ it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it.
I’ve seen ‘Hamlet’ many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts – all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
When I got cut from Cleveland, they weren’t one of the best teams in the NBA at the time, so I had some doubts. I didn’t think I was going to get back into the league. I wasn’t sure it was going to happen for me.
Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts.
I love what I’m doing most of the time, but it’s hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don’t know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I’m different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.
After the 1960s and ’70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country’s highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.
Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does.
Admitting the truth would have meant exposing us all. We spent our first decade in the country learning the ways of the new land and trying to fit in. Having a slave did not fit. Having a slave gave me grave doubts about what kind of people we were, what kind of place we came from.
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players’ minds the next time out.
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.
Mr. Gonzales’ failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
You’re going to have doubts when you get cut. But you can use those moment to light a fire under yourself.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
It’s one thing for a foreign partner to doubt a president’s judgment; it’s entirely more debilitating when that partner doubts the president’s word.
To me, Virat Kohli is the greatest batsman to have ever played one-day cricket. I have no doubts after seeing what he has achieved for India.
If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.
I’m no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don’t get to do that very often.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
I had no doubts I wanted to be a footballer because that was the only option.
Everyone has those insecurities, everyone doubts themselves but it’s how we handle that as humans and as people and how we support one another and how we really embrace the things that make us unique.
