Quotes About Confidence

Don't worry, old thing," Sophie said to the face. "You look quite healthy. Besides, this is much more like you than you really are.

As an old woman, she did not mind what she did or said. She found that a great relief.

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frighteningly is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

Howl se compra ropa carísima, porque dice que nadie querría contratar a un mago con pinta de no ser capaz de ganar dinero con su oficio.

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

Pudgy is comfortable," said Julia. "It must be a nuisance to look like a china doll, the way you do.

Mallard, can you make nets? I made the best nets in Shelling, Duck said. Nothing will ever make Duck modest, but he does make good nets.

Deep play arises in such moments of intense enjoyment, focus, control, creativity, timelessness, confidence, volition, lack of self-awareness (hence transcendence) while doing things intrinsically worthwhile, rewarding for their own sake…It feels cleansing because when acting and thinking becomes one, there is no room left for other thoughts.

Carry the confidence.

Belief as such always has doubt at the bottom. It's knowing that makes wizardry work. Only knowing can banish doubt.

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

Her knowledge of her own mind was what he admired about her. To expect her to bend to his wishes would be to expect her to be other than herself.

Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I'm getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.

you have to trust a TRUE compliment as muc as a critique.

Majorities, no less than minorities, need the assurance that they are being treated fairly, otherwise they are sure to mobilize through democratic channels to affirm their interests. By not only tolerating but enshrining it in law, proportional representation is rapidly balkanizing the country along racial lines, destroying the confidence of citizens that the law will treat them equally and provoking a strong and largely justified backlash.

I feel confident that I could persuade a millionaire on Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.1 —Saul Alinsky

Parting message: Don't be afraid of shining a light. Don't be afraid of being powerful. Don't be afraid of being more special.

Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.

I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls.

Aren't you going too far?" "I'm from New York.

Once you're a made man, you don't need the constant living influence of sources outside yourself.

Let us consider, then, how the crisis of confidence in the professions has been interpreted by professionals who have given serious thought in their own fields to the adequacy of professional knowledge. On the whole, their assessment is that professional knowledge is mismatched to the changing character of the situations of practice—the complexity, uncertainty, instability, uniqueness, and value conflicts which are increasingly perceived as central to the world of professional practice.

If you are going to worry about it, I won't.