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Quotes About Confidence

It did not eliminate the tumor, but it did restore her missing self-esteem, and that made all the difference in the way she felt.
~ David D. Burns
Depresyondaki bireylerin büyük bir çoÄŸunluÄŸu asl?nda çok sevilen insanlard?r, fakat bu hiç iÅŸe yaramaz; çünkü, kendilerini sevmezler ve kendilerine güvenleri eksiktir. Aslolan, ancak kendinize verdiÄŸiniz deÄŸerin nas?l hissettiÄŸinizi belirlediÄŸidir.
~ David D. Burns
Make sure you believe in your rebuttal to self-criticism. This rational response can take into account what was illogical and erroneous about your self-critical automatic thought.
~ David D. Burns
You should always listen to your woman, and then make your own decision. If you choose to go with your woman's suggestion even when deep in your heart you feel that another decision is more wise, you are, in effect, saying, "I don't trust my own wisdom." You are weakening yourself by telling yourself this. You are weakening your woman's trust in you: why should she trust your wisdom if you don't?
~ David Deida
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
~ David Eddings
Trust me. - Silk
~ David Eddings
If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.
~ David Eddings
What I'm trying to say, Garion,' Durnik continued seriously, 'is that you can't go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who'll misunderstand, and you'll have to do something to show him that it's not him that you're afraid of.
~ David Eddings
What am I going to do? asked Ce'Nedra. First you ought to go wash your face, Polgara told her. Some girls can cry without making themselves ugly, but you don't have the right coloring for it. You're an absolute fright. I'd advise you never to cry in public if you can help it.
~ David Eddings
As long as I know that my motives are good, however, I'm seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.
~ David Eddings
Your Highness could never be silly,' Adara told her. Ce'Nedra lifted her chin. 'Oh yes I can,' she declared. 'I've got as much right to make a fool of myself in public as anyone else.
~ David Eddings
Don't explain it to me, please," Anheg said. "As long as somebody I know and trust understands, that's all that's really important.
~ David Eddings
It's always best in the long run to be what you are. It isn't proper to behave as if you were more, but it isn't good to behave as if you were less, either. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
~ David Eddings
investment success requires sticking with positions made uncomfortable by their variance with popular opinion. Casual commitments invite casual reversal, exposing portfolio managers to the damaging whipsaw of buying high and selling low. Only with the confidence created by a strong decision-making process can investors sell mania-induced excess and buy despair-driven value.
~ David F. Swensen
Casual commitments invite casual reversal, exposing portfolio managers to the damaging whipsaw of buying high and selling low. Only with the confidence created by a strong decision-making process can investors sell mania-induced excess and buy despair-driven value.
~ David F. Swensen
Market studies focusing only on returns for securities in the United States miss important information. Recent academic work by Will Goetzmann and Philippe Jorion on investor experience in other countries reduces confidence in the long-run superiority of equity investing.
~ David F. Swensen
You'll stop worrying what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
~ David Foster Wallace
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.
~ David Foster Wallace
basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.
~ David Foster Wallace
Fackelmann claimed to have started a Log just to keep track of Kite's attempted pickup lines -- surefire lines like e.g. 'You're the second most beautiful woman I've ever seen, the first most beautiful woman I've ever seem being former Bristish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,' and 'If you came home with me I'm unusually confident that I could achieve an erection,' and said that if Kite wasn't still cherry at twenty-three and a half it was proof of some kind of divine-type grace.
~ David Foster Wallace
That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
~ David Foster Wallace
had numerous pairs of dress chinos and blue blazers and Topsiders, and a smile that looked as though someone had plugged him in.
~ David Foster Wallace
THE MAN WHO KNOWS HIS LIMITATIONS HAS NONE.
~ David Foster Wallace
La vostra preoccupazione per ciò che gli altri pensano di voi scompare una volta che capite quanto di rado pensano a voi.
~ David Foster Wallace