#confide

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#secrets #sharing-secrets #words

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. ↗

— Bernard M. Baruch

#be-yourself #confidence #fitting-in #individuality #those-who-matter

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#confident #cunning #directors #extra #feel

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ↗

— George Washington

#before #confidence #courteous #few #give

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#been #behaving #changes #confidence #economy

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. ↗

— Jerry West

#confidence #game #lot #think #won

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist. ↗

— Kim Weston

#art #artist #confident #i #myself

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#acknowledge #acknowledging #confident #does #gratitude

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#become #confidences #recipients #silent #those

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way. ↗

— Tana French

#confidence #intelligence #ugly #beauty