Quotes About Confidence

The paradox is that those students who employ the least effective study strategies overestimate their learning the most and, as a consequence of their misplaced confidence, they are not inclined to change their habits.

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.

I may have done some other things as good but I am sure none better. I haven't matured, progressed, grown, become deeper, wiser, or funnier. But then, I never thought I would. (Peter Cook about Beyond the Fringe)

I need a place to let go and fall back from my familiar patterns and trust God to catch me.

In the spiritual life, the opposite of fear is not courage, but trust.

Believing is easy. It gives us wiggle room to think our way out of a tight spot. But trust doesn't have any wiggle room. It explodes it. Trust is about being all in.

trust—not clarity, not certainty, but trust in God. And all of that poured out to the people around her.

Probably for the first time in my life I was beginning to comprehend that trust was a habit I would need to cultivate.

For a moment he regretted not using the original configuration, a wormhole wide enough to swallow a gas giant. This was only a kilometer across. But it did extend for twenty-eight thousand light-years. It works. I was right. I was right about everything. The Anomine, the Raiel. Everything. "I win," he said softly, then shouted it. "I fucking win! And the universe knows it.

Only one way to be sure.

Always trust in proven survivors.

We must know that we can do what we have to do.

Troblum, darling, are you going to make a run for it? Tell you what, I'll give you a five-minute head start. Do you think your fat legs can reach the bottom of the stairs by then? Will you need to sit down and take a breather?

Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?" "I'd be dead if it wasn't." "Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence.

You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay

Hmmph! I can make a better dot than THAT!

Well, maybe I can't draw, but I CAN sign my name

Er zijn vrouwen die een soufflé kunnen maken. Die op het juiste moment een recept van mokkaparfait in hun sportbeha hebben zitten. Die met de ene hand hun eigen bruiloftstaart kunnen bouwen en met de andere pepersteak Nossi Bé maken. Daar moeten wij ons allen over verheugen. Als het maar niet betekent dat wij een slecht geweten moeten hebben omdat we de eerste beginselen van het brood roosteren nog niet onder de knie hebben.

I'm wearing a pair of high boots, a red turtleneck sweater, a sealskin coat from Groenlandia, and a skirt from Scottish Corner. I've learned that it's always easier to explain things if you're nicely dressed.

You could get my father to state, in all seriousness, that one of his problems is that he isn't half as pleased with himself as he has every reason to be.

Det ser ut som en krypta. - Döden är förtroendeingivande. Alla banker är inredda som gravvalv.

No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

Charisma often flows from total self-confidence.

Tucker is on a roll. It usually takes two beers for him to like himself but tonight he only needs half a can.