My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.
By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
When you work and earn money as a child, you need to be confident, but it can make you a bit precocious, and I think I was a bit of a pain for a while when I was young.
When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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.
I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.
A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.
I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
I'm becoming more and more confident and am falling more and more in love with the whole world of comedy, and I think that's something that I really want to explore a lot more.
I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.
Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
I will always be confident in the direction of my dreams because that's the life I wish to live.
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
