Quotes About Confidence

I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

It is always difficult when there is a lack of confidence and a lack of belief but it can be good for me to see the reaction of the team in a difficult time.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

I am not a good cue card reader.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

When I joined Time Inc., one of the things that was important to me was ensuring that our content is where consumers want to read it. The Apple newsstand is an important place where a lot of consumers are. And Apple is really becoming a good partner to publishers. We are confident we can deliver a experience for our readers that 's really good.

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.

I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.

I know, normally folks on TV wouldn't readily admit their age, but since there's nothing you can do about it, you might as well own it and be happy.

I think we usually err on the side of giving players a lot of confidence and freedom within the motion to make plays and make reads and make decisions.

Whatever I see, I trust my eyes, trust my reads, trust the guys running routes and kind of just let it go.

I feel like I'm making the right plays and right reads each and every night, so if I keep doing that the assists are going to come.

I just got to be more aggressive. A lot of time, I just got to make the right reads. It's nothing major, just minor tweaks.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.

The more experience you have, the more confidence you get and the more ready you are.