#insecurity

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#cancer #chemotherapy #even #everything #going

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#being #black #confront #culture #demonic

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#been #corporate #declines #down #economic

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel. ↗

— Persis Khambatta

#always #awe #because #better #better actor

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#aspects #boasting #complacency #confidence #expression

The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are - flaws and all. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#don-t-give-up #insecurity #self-worth #self-worth

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me. ↗

— Wendy McClure

#self-loathing #self-worth #self-worth

Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you. ↗

— Rebecca O'Donnell

#hope #incest #insecurity #memoir #love

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#insecurity #much #people #sets #standing

There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hope you don't mind being disturbed by some mere wog and upstart.' The remedy for this was not to indulge it but to reply with bracing and satirical stuff which would soon get the gurgling laugh back into his throat. But I'm glad I didn't say, 'What, Edward, splashing about again in the waters of self-pity?' because this time he was calling to tell me that he had contracted a rare strain of leukemia. Not at all untypically, he used the occasion to remind me that it was very important always to make and keep regular appointments with one’s physician. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#edward-said #friends #friendship #insecurity #leukemia