Insecurity Quotations | Page 3

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I'm somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if I was going to have a roof over my head, all those types of things. And I know the impact it can have on you psychologically and emotionally.

One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.

Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ­extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.

And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.

He pushed himself, he pushed us, he made us better. One of the things that I think was very interesting about Peter is that he didn't graduate from high school, and this gave him a kind of insecurity that made him want to work harder, and learn more, ... He wrote like a dream. You would think that he was reading a script, and it was all ad-lib. He was an anchor in every true sense of the word.

When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes.

What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted?

Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

You're full of insecurities in your 20s - most of the time your heart's being broken, you're having a difficult time finding out who the hell you are, and I was trying to do that in the full glare of the public.

You have to trust the journey. That has become my motto for years: trust the journey. Because in the end, we're all kind of fearful. We all have fears and insecurities and ups and downs.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at the time where everybody is waking up with different opinions every day, and you're on this learning curve of who you are and who you want to be, and you're comparing yourself with every other male and female around you. There's no sense to it.

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

It's amazing to realize that a lot of the insecurities I had when I was younger have pretty much disappeared.

Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.

It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity

I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long time. Nobody knows actors and their insecurities and strengths and everything more than somebody who's done it before.

The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like? What I do is put that together.

I am no artist - please come and help me.

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

We all have insecurities but you have to know you’re beautiful.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.

Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry. I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.

The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.

The current administration is fostering a sense of insecurity so the public is more willing to accept the excesses of this administration. We need to stop that.

The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

All the documents possessed by the different (Iranian) organs show the intervention and cooperation of British military commanders in southern Iraq to create insecurity in Iran.

In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.

The longer the insecurity in the area persists, the more serious the situation will become. Most people affected by the recent violence have enough food for another month or two, but after that, things are far less certain.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well- received.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork

I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

I haven't met a woman without insecurities.

I want you to let go of all of your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that ever made you feel like you don't belong.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be eliminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.

It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Insecurity is love dressed in a child's clothing.

The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.

You made me insecure, Told me I wasn't good enough.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.

I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey Begins.

I was wracked with insecurity.

This is what I call understanding. If you understand, insecurity is an intrinsic part of life - and good that it is so, because it makes life a freedom, it makes life a continuous surprise. One never knows what is going to happen. It keeps you continuously in wonder. Don't call it uncertainty - call it wonder. Don't call it insecurity - call it freedom.

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could acomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself.

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it.