Quotes About Confidence

I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.

My sister tried to clarify things. She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a "superior position" that she wouldn't need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

Everything can't be low self-esteem, can it?

I don´t want to be somebody´s crush, if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

I'm going to do what i want to do. I'm going to be who i really am. And i'm going to figure out what that is. -Sam

If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.

Frost's early years were spent finding out who he was. But his later years were spent increasingly being who he was on purpose. As he himself said, the story of his life is the story of someone becoming more and more himself. He later wrote: They would not find me changed from him they knew— Only more sure of all I thought was true.

But these matters did not annoy him. It is almost certain that if the boat capsized he would have tumbled comfortably out upon the ocean as if he felt sure that it was a great soft mattress.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road untill I am conpelled to beleive differently.

Although both men were full of resolve, the defender could not keep his doubts out of his mind, while the attacker refused to entertain any doubts. (Rommel vs. Eisenhower)

To a certain extent," he explained, "a man must merely believe in his luck and figure that a certain amount of good fortune will bless us when the critical day arrives."30 Throughout the war Eisenhower trusted in his luck along with his preparations, and it never failed him.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

Over the years however, my nose grew and grew and it became apparent by the time I was fourteen that, like its owner, it was not growing straight.

He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was the Adrian he had always been, casting a guilty look over a furtive shoulder, living in eternal dread of a grown-up striding forward to clip his ear.

People (even Americans) often find it difficult to talk about themselves.  Poetry gives them a kind of verbal costume in which they can express themselves with more dignity and confidence than the common dress of everyday speech will allow.

Everyone else new you ever meet, and this continues through life, is stronger than you are, knows the system better and sees right through to the back of your brain and finds what they see to be wholly inadequate. Everyone you encounter carries, as it were, a huge club behind their back, while all you hold behind yours is a weedy cotton-bud.

When a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, he retorted, "If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!

philosopher of science Karl Popper has emphasized, a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions, the theory survives and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory.

As philosopher of science Karl Popper has emphasized, a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions, the theory survives and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory.

Tiap kali percobaan baru memberi hasil yang cocok dengan prediksi, teori harus bertahan, dan keyakinan kita terhadapnya meningkat; tapi jika ada pengamatan baru yang didapati tak cocok, kita harus tinggalkan atau ubah teori itu.

Cada vez que observamos novos experimentos coincidirem com as previsões, a teoria sobrevive e nossa confiança nela aumenta; porém, se em algum momento uma nova observação a contradiz, temos de abandonar a teoria ou modificá-la. Pelo

I'm far too intelligent to be brave, thank you very much.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.