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Quotes About Confidence

Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has. Do you take it I would astonish? Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods? Do I astonish more than they? This hour I tell things in confidence, I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
~ Walt Whitman
Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...
~ Walt Whitman
Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded, I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no, And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
~ Walt Whitman
What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my good will, Scattering it freely forever.
~ Walt Whitman
Here is what sings unrestricted faith.
~ Walt Whitman
I know I am august, I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood, I see that the elementary laws never apologize
~ Walt Whitman
It is time to explain myself—let us stand up.
~ Walt Whitman
I am larger, better than I thought, / I did not know I held so much goodness
~ Walt Whitman
Micsoda érzés: ma vagy bármelyik napon azt érezni, hogy úgy, ahogy vagyok, kielégítÅ' vagyok!
~ Walt Whitman
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood
~ Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying that didn't happen. People aren't born with I'M GREAT! flashing on their foreheads.
~ Walter Dean Myers
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)
~ Walter Isaacson
I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class. From really knowing you're more awesomely intelligent than anybody else, but also being the guy who got beaten up for being Jewish.
~ Walter Isaacson
So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality.
~ Walter Isaacson
thus isolated, he became known for his brashness.
~ Walter Isaacson
Rather than try to conform, he made a point of being different, dressing and carrying himself as a dandy.
~ Walter Isaacson
Bushnell agreed. "There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve," he said. "He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, 'Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
~ Walter Isaacson
poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.
~ Walter Isaacson
There can be something he knows absolutely nothing about, and because of his crazy style and utter conviction, he can convince people that he knows what he's talking about
~ Walter Isaacson
One useful leadership talent is knowing when to push ahead against doubters and when to heed them.
~ Walter Isaacson
So, you've uncovered the fact that I'm an asshole. Why is that news?
~ Walter Isaacson
Eve in Foothills Park, Palo Alto: "She's a pistol and has the strongest
~ Walter Isaacson
that whatever he was touting was the best thing he
~ Walter Isaacson
I was way too shy ever to be a business leader like Steve.
~ Walter Isaacson