Quotes of: Confided Keyword

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

Zig Ziglar

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

Atom Egoyan

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

Dick Cavett

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

Marisa Berenson

I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Ariana Grande

Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can't keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York and Paris - the way they carry themselves and put themselves together are always so unique.

Christina Hendricks

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Dawn French

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. Yet a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful son...

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Nay, we sometimes proceed so far as to trust in ourselves, and depend on our own power, strength, and abilities. Then it is that God in mere mercy interposes, and breaks us in pieces; humbles, and confounds us, and so empties us of ourselves, that we...

True Christianity

... he will seek vainly to the right and to the left and in the newspapers for a guarantee that he has actually been amused. For a sophisticated person, on the other hand, who is still unembarrassed enough to dare to be amused all by himself, who has...

Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.

Cosmic Ordering Guide

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

Conversations With Myself

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

Coraline

My life is an adventure." she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. "I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore.

Cress

The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.

Ender's Game

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Fear of Flying

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

The Flinch