Quotes About Confidence

One just had to admire his deluded self-confidence.

You MUST know You to do YOU!

That was the point where she was supposed to sound tough, like she was someone to be reckoned with, like she was the sort of person witches should listen to. Was this really her plan? She sounded like a child.

Et, figurez-vous que je danse aussi! Et je me contrefiche d'avoir l'air d'un ours ou d'un hippopotame, vous devriez essayer. Même si on ne rattrape jamais le temps perdu, on peut décider de ne plus en perdre.

Fond as [Naomi James] was of her faraway fiancé, another solo sailor, 'I'm a natural loner because as long as I know [my fiancé] is alive and well, I don't really worry about him. He has his life to live and I've got mine, and if I can survive then I'm sure he can.

Our true selves, the selves from our "times before," are waiting for us. Where to find them? In the places and activities that make us hate ourselves the least. Do you hate yourself less than usual while mountain-climbing, singing, studying, discussing lab results, visiting France? Wherever you hate yourself less is where your true self lives, where he or she feels safe to work and play.

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.

Ein Kennzeichen davon, daß man noch auf eigene Werke vertraut, ist, daß sich bei einem ?Fehltritt die Hoffnung vermindert.? Worte der Weisheit HIKAM ? von Ibn Ata'Allah al-Iskandari

You can do whatever you want if you don't care what people think

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

Forcing ourselves to express how sure we are of our beliefs brings to plain sight the probabilistic nature of those beliefs, that what we believe is almost never 100% or 0% accurate but, rather, somewhere in between.

When we work toward belief calibration, we become less judgmental of ourselves.

Incorporating uncertainty into the way we think about our beliefs comes with many benefits. By expressing our level of confidence in what we believe, we are shifting our approach to how we view the world. Acknowledging uncertainty is the first step in measuring and narrowing it. Incorporating uncertainty in the way we think about what we believe creates open-mindedness, moving us closer to a more objective stance toward information that disagrees with us.

If our only options are being 100% right or 100% wrong, with nothing in between, then information that potentially contradicts a belief requires a total downgrade, from right all the way to wrong. There is no "somewhat less sure" option in an all-or-nothing world, so we ignore or discredit the information to hold steadfast in our belief.

An accurate picture of the odds is important when you're choosing a path. But once you've already made your choice, then you should switch into irrational optimism for the execution phase.

Skepticism is about approaching the world by asking why things might not be true rather than why they are true. It's a recognition that, while there is an objective truth, everything we believe about the world is not true. Thinking in bets embodies skepticism by encouraging us to examine what we do and don't know and what our level of confidence in our beliefs and predictions. This moves us closer to what is objectively true.

We would be better served as communicators and decision-makers if we thought less about whether we are confident in our beliefs and more about how confident we are. Instead of thinking of confidence as all-or-nothing (" I'm confident" or "I'm not confident"), our expression of our confidence would then capture all the shades of grey in between.

In addition to making precise (bull's-eye) estimates, offer a range around that estimate to express your uncertainty. Do this by including a lower and upper bound that communicate the size of your target.

No" is a complete sentence.

My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.

MickeyMize your life, because it is better than to MinneyMize, or MaxiMize, or OptiMize, or PessiMize, or PhantoMize. MickeyMize is the way to go!

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because its safe or certain.