Quotes About Confidence

Steve remembered clasping his hands together, amazed that they weren't shaking. If ever they should shake, he thought, it would be at a time like this. But they were as steady and still as a kitchen sink.

Who cares about my cock? It'll fend for itself.

I disapprove of this text now, but when I was little it bespoke the awesome oracular intentionality of prophets whose courage and confidence allowed them to scrap the old ways and start fresh: urban renewal architects; engineers of traffic flow; foretellers of monorails, paper clothing, food in capsule form, programmed learning, and domes over Hong Kong and Manhattan.

This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad.

We can't go on apologizing all our lives, you know.

The difference between these people and me is that they finished college and I didn't; as a consequence, they have smart jobs and I have a scruffy job, they are rich and I am poor, they are self confident and I am incontinent... they have opinions and I have lists.

She and Duncan had ended up together because they were the last two people to be picked for a sports team, and she felt she was better at sports than that.

if I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have.

This thing about looking for someone less different… It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

It wasn't that he made her feel incompetent and unsure of herself and her tastes. It was the reverse. He knew nothing about anything, and she'd never really allowed herself to notice it until now.

Self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers—small bookshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafés. I'm happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and PizzaExpress, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are.

Hal tentang mencari seseorang yang tak jauh berbeda darimu... Itu hanya berfungsi, ia menyadarinya, jika kau mempercayai bahwa kau tidaklah terlalu buruk sebelumnya.

There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.

When you fight to be taken seriously, you don't smile in photos.

Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

I was considered attractive in those days, some people even called me beautiful, though my skin was never good and it was this that I noticed when I looked in the mirror

You have to stick up for yourself,he told me. But it's bad to throw rocks, I said. I know, he said. You're smarter than me, you'll find something better than rocks.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

go for what you want if it doesn't want you back, so be it, it doesn't deserve you

This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in man, indeed the will to man. Now the sight of man makes us weary. What is nihilism today if not that?

I am not afraid of the devil, and you are just a man.