Quotes About Confidence

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

I was really scared when I went to Oregon State. I wasn't sure I could play at the college level.

It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic.

Seeing them all on Twitter, see it happening at shows, audiences getting bigger. I can't believe I'm doing Brixton. But it's all happened organically, that's why I love it. I've never been a beggar, and I don't think I've begged it at all.

People need to trust you: that you're going to pull them out and that they will follow you when you pull them out. If they don't get that comfort, they're going to drop you. This is true of organizations. It's true of countries.

When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.

I highly doubt that many people are as organized as me.

I was a big kid who never played any organized sports. You played a lot of sports in the streets and I excelled at that, but I was never confident enough to go out for Little League. I was afraid I might get cut, or I might not be able to hit the ball.

At the end of the day, I say, 'You do you.' You shouldn't be focusing on convincing people what your sexual orientation is.

Embracing my origin has made me the confident and grateful person I am.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

People believe in my originality more than anything else.

I originally invested in Dropcam because I foresaw what the company and their products could do for consumers and the industry. I've been deeply impressed with what they've done in such little time, and I'm confident that they'll continue to exceed my expectations.

My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

I had long eyelashes and the other kids used to say I wore mascara.

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.