Quotes About Confidence

One advantage to being overweight is that it enhances stomping.

Anyone who wears a tiara and sequins is always going to be the winner.

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

Distrust any speaker who speaks confidently about "we," or speaks in the name of "us." Distrust yourself if you hear these tones creeping into your own style. The search for security and majority are not always the same as solidarity; it can be another name for consensus and tyranny and tribalism. Never forget that, even if there are "masses" to be invoked, or "the people" to be praised, they and it must by definition be composed of individuals.

The human mind is readily swayed this way or that in times of doubt, especially when hope and fear are struggling for the mastery, though usually it is boastful, over-confident, and vain.

People assert themselves out of an unquenchable sense of dignity.

The most arresting thing about Palin, indeed, is the absolutely unbreachable serenity of her ignorance. She already has all the information she requires.

The great reward, if that's the right word, lies in the people you will meet when engaged in the same work, the lessons you will learn, and the confidence you will acquire from having some experiences and convictions of your own - to set against the received thirdhand opinions of so many others.

Science combines a massive contribution, in volume and detail, of what we do know with humility in proclaiming what we don't. Religion, by embarrassing contrast, has contributed literally zero to what we know, combined with huge hubristic confidence in the alleged facts it has simply made up.

I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain, but you'd be surprised if you knew what it had meant to me, at critical moments of my life, to be dressed exactly in accordance with my mood. It gives one such confidence, I think.

Charlotte, meanwhile, has peeked into the oven and then closed its door again, announcing, 'twenty more minutes' with the absolute confidence of a great chef, which by God she isn't.

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

Man's collective mastery of nature— even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion— can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it coexists with centralizing forces that have deprived individuals of any mastery over the concrete, immediate conditions of their existence. The collective control allegedly conferred by science is an abstraction that has little resonance in everyday life.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab as occasion serves.

All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.

Which is why you chose to wear that delightful ensemble from the skank-wear collection at Hoes-n-Thangs? -Tommy

She can be a whirlwind of tits and terror when she puts her mind to a purpose, can't she, sir?

You sure about this writer thing son?

My skin cleared up! I don't have a single zit. -Tommy Ding, ding, ding, Jody onomatopeed, signaling that Tommy had hit on the correct answer.

He's not dumb, Biff, he just has a talent for belief.

I'm very insecure, actually, but I have found that if you roll up screaming like a madwoman, hair on fire, guns blazing, no one is going to mention the zit on your forehead." Which

I'm not scared, Daddy. I just need some crunchy Cheese Newts up in this bitch.

So safe," Coyote said, "that you can lose it in a day? To be safe is to be afraid. Is that what you want: to be afraid?

I'll be fine. The ready kit you packed covered everything, I think. In fact, I may not even need the fire extinguisher.