Quotes About Confidence

Tall and lissome, Dr. Brooks moved with the assertive gait of an athlete. Even in shapeless scrubs, she had a willowy elegance about her. Despite the absence of any makeup that Langdon could see, her complexion appeared unusually smooth, the only blemish a tiny beauty mark just above her lips. Her eyes, though a gentle brown, seemed unusually penetrating, as if they had witnessed a profundity of experience rarely encountered by a person her age.

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

belief in the product may be the single most compelling factor in that exchange of trust we call a sale.

The recruiter is confident that the transformation will take place. He can cast a wide net because of his faith in the best training in the world.

Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

master…Fear

Now," she said. "Look at the tree again and create this expectation: 'I can hit the tree with ease.'" So I said it again---"I can hit the tree with ease." I felt a line of energy stretching from me to the tree and I knew the stone would follow that line to it's target....I took a breath and threw the stone. I saw it fly, attracted to the tree like a magnet. The stone hit the tree dead center.

Those who believe they can and those who believe they can't are both right. — Henry Ford

Do you think it's ready? I [Silenus, The Poet] asked. It's perfect... a masterpiece. Do you think it'll sell? I asked. No fucking way.

When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in it probably hold for you and you go looking for it. If it's not there, you sense it earlier and leave to go about your business. You just know more about what is, what isn't, and how little time there is to learn the difference.

shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

The whiskey never seemed to compromise the man's competence

Mis primeros poemas eran lamentables. Como la mayoría de los malos poetas, yo no me daba cuenta de ello, seguro en mi arrogancia de que el simple acto de crear daba cierto valor a los indignos abortos que alumbraba.

I've gotten to the point where I'm not even a little apologetic about this business of not eating stuff that's bad for me. No one else has to live with my fat, work through my energy and mood swings, pay my doctor bills, fight my cravings, for face my family history of diabetes and cancer. If people insist, I can get a little testy.

I totally bought you as a girl, says Marisol. I'll double check with Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls.

If a young women once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for if she believes herself charming charming enough to captive him, 'tis natural to expect the effects of it.

Albert Bandura, a Stanford psychologist who has done much of the research on self-efficacy, sums it up well: "People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong."24

Hope, in a technical sense, is more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right. Snyder defines it with more specificity as "believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be." People

The problem gets compounded by what's called the "illusion of explanatory depth," where we feel confidence in our understanding of a complex system, but in reality have just superficial knowledge.

El afecto actúa como antídoto del miedo. «Si me demuestras un afecto genuino –señaló el Dalai Lama–, entonces y automáticamente siento que esa persona está siendo muy amable conmigo, y por eso confío en ella. Si no tienes miedo, te relajas, te sientes seguro».

Desarrollar algún tipo de habilidad fortalece la sensación de eficacia y predispone a asumir riesgos y problemas más difíciles. Y el hecho de superar estas dificultades aumenta a su vez la sensación de autoeficacia

las creencias de las personas sobre sus propias habilidades tienen un profundo efecto sobre éstas. La habilidad no es un atributo fijo sino que, en este sentido, existe una extraordinaria variabilidad. Las personas que se sienten eficaces se recuperan prontamente de los fracasos y no se preocupan tanto por el hecho de que las cosas puedan salir mal sino que se aproximan a ellas buscando el modo de manejarlas».

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong."24 FLOW:

The truth is, if we become comfortable with who we are rather than who we think we should be, then we will be less insecure.