A Quote by Sylvia Plath

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
American - Novelist
October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963

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

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

Stephen King

The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

David Rakoff

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

Eric Maisel

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy, and I don't even have a worst enemy.

Gary Coleman

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

Nick Hornby

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

Andre Dubus

Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

Blaine Lee Pardoe

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Ray Bradbury

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

Victoria Moran

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

Don Roff

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

Michael Strahan

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Aldous Huxley

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Helen Keller

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

Wes Fesler

The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

Seth Godin

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