#confidence

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. ↗

— George McGovern

#capacity #confidence #faith #intellectual #kind

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#challenge #confidence #down #dumb #feeling

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#friends #gave #i #insecure #kid

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#building #confidence #constructed #enter #gate

I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#confidence #considerable #debt #europe #germany

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#confidence #cost #flight #lighter #materials

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#carry #confidence #criticisms #crystallize #deadline

I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?' ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#am #been #benjamin #blessed #confidence

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song. ↗

— George Michael

#anything #before #confidence #dinner #done

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. ↗

— David Miliband

#battle #battles #bigger #bottom-up #confidence