Top 50 Quotes About Impostor
#1. If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.
Tucker Max
#2. If you wish to be thought a good estate manager, or a good horseman, or a good physician, or a good flute player without really being one, just imagine all the tricks you have to invent just to keep up appearances. You might succeed at first, but in the end you're going to be exposed as an impostor.
Xenophon
#3. This is where someone who does his job competently and effectively believes that he's just an impostor; that he doesn't really know what he's doing.
Russ Harris
#4. It is shame to be an impostor ... it only means u gave up! ... it is impossible to be perfect ... but it is possible to believe in your self ...
Woody
#5. I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!
Auguste Laurent
#6. We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.
Walter Kirn
#7. I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
Errol Flynn
#8. Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.
J.G. Ballard
#9. Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
John Milton
#10. This phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt has a name---the impostor syndrome.
Sheryl Sandberg
#11. When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#12. Men love a prop so well, that they will lean on a pointed poisoned spear; and such was he, the impostor, who, with fear of hell for his scourge, most ravenous wolf, played the driver to a credulous flock.
Mary Shelley
#13. Lila knew what it felt like to want something, knew the way it whispered and sang and screamed in your bones. And this felt like that, but wasn't. An impostor of longing.
V.E Schwab
#15. What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorant and the uneducated?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.
John Oliver
#18. The beauty of the impostor syndrome is you vacillate between extreme egomania, and a complete feeling of: 'I'm a fraud! Oh god, they're on to me! I'm a fraud!
Sheryl Sandberg
#19. While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.
Brennan Manning
#20. I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.
Philippe Starck
#21. The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor.
H.P. Lovecraft
#22. A loon thought he was Frank Sinatra and every time Frank came on TV or radio the loon would go mad, impostor!
Stephen Richards
#23. An impostor would not have the same value as the original person in society.
Saaif Alam
#24. fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you "really" are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome.
Megan McArdle
#25. And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.
Thomas Paine
#26. I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
Damon Galgut
#27. It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.
Andres Segovia
#28. ...Yes... I am perfect. A perfect 'impostor'. B-ko
Suzumu
#29. Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
David Frum
#30. Thorne's voice pitched high in imitation of the queen. The impostor of my beloved niece is vanquished ... Let us put this messiness behind us while we go forward with the coronations ... I am a psychotic, power-hungry nut basket and my breath smells really bad under this veil.
Marissa Meyer
#31. This man, this impostor of a man, can kill my body but he can't touch my soul.
Cynthia Hand
#32. Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.
Brennan Manning
#33. The impostor syndrome. I know it well. Inside every self-assured professional lives a frightened neurotic who prays that he can somehow succeed before his clients discover the fraud. It's the guilty secret that drives us all.
Richard North Patterson
#34. But the impostor syndrome doesn't allow any success to go unpunished.
Joyce M. Roche
#35. Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors
Alphonsus Liguori
#36. Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.
Thomas Merton
#37. There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.
Dinah Washington
#38. The reality is you must realize that this was a choice made by the impostor. We all have choices, and there is always a better solution than to steal. They have chosen to sacrifice you for their own needs.
Linda Foley
#39. I may change my opinion on the same subject, the same event, ten, twenty, thirty times in the course of a single day. And to think that each time, like the worst impostor, I dare utter word "truth"!
Emil Cioran
#40. He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#41. Once you've been loved by a man like Damian, once you've been branded and molded in the fires of that possession, you will never be moved by tepid, impostor kisses.
Leylah Attar
#42. In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
Xavi
#43. A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.
Anthony Liccione
#44. Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.
Vernor Vinge
#45. Remember who you are. Realize what you are. Do both those things, or you'll either be completely useless-or too dangerous to help anyone.
Sarah Fine
#46. You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...
Nava Atlas
#47. He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
John Updike
#49. Relentless criticism in childhood can internalize a parental scorn that no amount of success will silence.
Bruce Watson
#50. Don't ask, don't tell. Keep your head down. Don't lie - just keep them talking about themselves and pretty soon they'll see their reflection. It's easy to be liked that way: people love themselves.
Mitty Walters
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