Quotes About Confidence

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith

Providence," he argues, "is not a theory about some activities of God; it is the religious symbol of the courage of confidence with respect to fate and death.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Norman believes in his own abilities. He believes what his parents taught him, that a clever man will rise like yeast if he is careful. He

Entrer chez les gens pour déconcerter leurs idées, leur faire la surprise d'être surpris de ce qu'ils font, de ce qu'ils pensent, et qu'ils n'ont jamais conçu différent, c'est, au moyen de l'ingénuité feinte ou réelle, donner à ressentir toute la relativité d'une civilisation, d'une confiance habituelle dans l'ordre établi.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

If writers had a little more guts, maybe they wouldn't be writers.

By all means continue to call me names. I daresay I have far too much confidence.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

I'm happily single.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

I is what I is.

Everybody's intrigued by someone comfortable in their own skin because most of us aren't.

Danny had figured out a long time ago that he'd get further in life if he didn't spend time worrying about being embarrassed about stuff. This night

We're all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren't your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy.

I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

We're all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren't your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy." She was referring to Jock, but her words made me think of other things, too. "Are you happy, Karen?" "Not yet. But I mean to be.

I wasn't raised to acknowledge my own feelings, let alone stick up for myself like that.

The world needs an army of Wandas—strong, sarcastic, unafraid women who say what they think and act straightforwardly, without apology or permission. Women who roar instead of flinch.

They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms—not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.