Quotes About Confidence

Or maybe there's one thing to say, about the capitalism of the heart, the belief that the essences of life too can be seized and hoarded, that you can corner the market on confidence, stage a hostile takeover of happiness. It's based on scarcity economics, the notion or perhaps the feeling that there's not enough to go around, and the belief that these intangible phenomena exist in a fixed quantity to be scrambled for, rather than that you can only increase them by giving them away.

Take note of all the good you have done in the past, and celebrate your accomplishments. Sometimes no one is going to tell you that you are doing a good job except yourself. So tell yourself that! It's important to concentrate on the direction you are going in and to believe with all your heart that you can get there.

And for a moment—only a moment, mind you—I felt my confidence slip.

I asked Thomas what his special technique for sales was as a kid. He said he didn't have any. It was simply that "I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected." It

It disturbed me, however, to have felt so confident about what had happened that day and to have been so wrong.

Doctors with high confidence in a judgment they made proved no more accurate than doctors with low confidence.

In the end what he gave Eleanor and her father was mainly confidence, from what I could see.

he relied on me for surgical expertise.

She envied the confidence and poise of the women she saw behind the desk.

the encounter somehow made the goal seem attainable.

I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson.

It may seem odd that such a person would place herself in front of a camera.

And he let me go ahead.

After a couple of weeks, she grew only more convinced

I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.

asked Thomas what his special technique for sales was as a kid. He said he didn't have any. It was simply that "I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.

I wouldn't be a surgeon if I thought otherwise.)

At times, they made her wonder if she had the right doctors

expectations about their

Here? I asked with my eyes, not wanting to undermine my patient's confidence any further.

Your competence gives you a secure sense of identity.

In surgery, as in anything else, skill and confidence are learned through experience

I didn't see much likelihood that an error would be found. Today

You cannot, you cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.