Quotes About Confidence

You become an artist once you start saying that you are an artist

Decisions are crazy. Sometimes all it takes to get over the hump is a friend who gives you permission.

Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as an indicator of aspiration. It reflects love, love of something we dream of doing, and desire, desire to do it. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist? chances are you are.

I believe with unshakeable faith that there will always be something in the box.

Start before you're ready. Good things happen when we start before we're ready. For one thing, we show huevos. Our blood heats up. Courage begets more courage. The gods, witnessing our boldness, look on in approval.

Start playing from power. We can always dial it back later. If we don't swing for the seats from the start, we'll never be able to drive a fastball into the upper deck.

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be—and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway. How do we achieve this state of mind? By staying stupid. By not allowing ourselves to think. A

The inner critic? His ass is not permitted in the building.

The inner critic? His ass is not permitted in the building. Set forth without fear and without self-censorship. When you hear that voice in your head, blow it off. This draft is not being graded. There will be no pop quiz.

Suspending self-judgment doesn't just mean blowing off the "You suck" voice in our heads. It also means liberating ourselves from conventional expectations—from what we think our work "ought" to be or "should" look like.

Every morning you wake up and the dragon's there and you'd have to slay that dragon anew every morning. The only difference is that after you've done it enough times you, you now are confident that it can be done, but it never goes away, And there's no magic bullet.

The artist is grounded in freedom. He is not afraid of it. He is lucky. He was born in the right place. He has a core of self- confidence, of hope for the future. He believes in progress and evolution. His faith is that humankind is advancing, however haltingly and imperfectly, toward a better world.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment.

This doesn't mean that the professional doesn't throw down a 360 tomahawk jam from time to time, just to let the boys know he's still in business.

Do not be afraid; only believe" (Mark 5:36).

Faith dissolves fear and makes us courageous.

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. PSALM 118:8

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1).

Genesis 15:1, Psalm 56:11, Mark 5:36, and Mark 9:23.

Whatever you say, Stone.

If I were asked to rate my looks on a scale of one to ten, I wouldn't.

In her presence, I felt as dainty and feminine as a side of beef. When I opened my mouth, I was worried I would moo.

Pam is petite, a bristly little chihuahua of a human being. She is the only woman I ever met who claims to be ten years older than she actually is so everyone will tell her how young she looks.

I hid the fold of paper in my bra, where I knew it would remain undisturbed.