#confidence

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect. ↗

— George Saunders

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Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#daunting #eight #growth #just #sense

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken. ↗

— Ulrich Walter

#back #confidence #every #flew #i

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#care #clothes #confidence #gives #i

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life." (Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009) ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#creative-process #self-confidence #self-trust #writing #life

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ↗

— Colin Powell

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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience. ↗

— Alain Prost

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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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