I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
I think what makes someone beautiful is confidence and a kind heart.
Never dull your shine for somebody else.
Chuck Neiderman: A 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown could give the Colts a false sense of confidence going into the second minute of play.
Naomi Hyman: If you want me to like you, stay true to yourself. If you're Caucasian, don't try to act like an African-American. If you're Asian, don't try to act Caucasian. Just be whoever you are. I want to see the confidence you have in yourself. That's it. Then I'll like you. The Twinkee: But again, what is being "Asian?" I don't know how to be "Asian." If I was raised in a white community all my life and I have no sense how to be Asian, even if I look it, what do you think that makes me? For the generation of Asian people raised in this country, I think this a problem that all of us have.
[Solon draws his bow and arrow in Medusa's lair, and notices a statue in exactly the same posture] Solon: Not exactly confidence inspiring...
FBI Team Leader: It's an interesting setup, Mr. Ross. It is the oldest confidence game on the books. The Spanish Prisoner. Fellow says him and his sister, wealthy refugees, left a fortune in the home country. He got out, girl and the money stuck in Spain. Here is her most beautiful portrait. And he needs money to get her and the fortune out. Man who supplies the money gets the fortune and the girl. Oldest con in the world.
Al Gore: Unemployment around the country has gone up; the number of jobs has gone down. The trade deficit has gone up; personal income has gone down. The budget deficit has gone up; consumer confidence has gone down. Poverty has gone up; the number of jobs has gone down. Bankruptcies have gone up, jobs, down; fear, up; hope, down; everything that oughta be down is *up*, everything that should be up is *down*; they've got it upside down, and we're gonna turn it right side *up!*
Coach Orion: [picks hockey puck up off the ice and addresses the Ducks] What's the one thing all great teams have in common? Lester Averman: Great coaching. Coach Orion: [unamused] Don't try to suck up to me, Averman. [pause] Coach Orion: Defense. See, unlike scoring, defense never quits. But to play great defense you need one thing above all else. Lester Averman: [sarcastically, to Goldberg] Bet it starts with a W. Coach Orion: Confidence. Listen, if you learn nothin' else when you're here, you learn this, all right? This is not just about hockey. It's easy to be confident when you have control of the puck. It's very, very difficult to keep that confidence when you gotta take whatever strange bounces life throws your way. Don't be careless, but don't be too careful either. You cannot be afraid to lose! That's how you gain the confidence to attack the game when the puck isn't yours. That's how you attack life... even when you think you don't have any control. And that's how you play real defense.
I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
How are you feeling, man?
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.
Self-consciousness kills communication.
You Determine your own worth not anyone else, only yourself.
Inman: Come out of there. Bosie: No, sir. Here's fine. Inman: I'll just have to shoot the horse from under you. Bosie: Shoot her. She's not mine. You riding Mr. Teague's mare? Inman: I am. Bosie: He dead? Inman: I hope so. Look, how old are you? Give me your gun and ride home, I'm done fighting. I'm sick of it. Bosie: I give you my gun and you'll shoot me dead. Inman: I will not shoot you, but nor am I walking down that mountain looking over my shoulder for you. Bosie: That's what you call a conundrum. I tell you what I've got on my side. Inman: What have you got on your side? Bosie: The confidence of youth.
Bartleby Gaines: Schrader, come on. Don't be scared. Sherman Schrader: Scared? I'm not scared. You're scared. Hands: Schrader, you were scared to try the new flavor of Dr. Pepper. Sherman Schrader: I told you that in confidence Hands! Bartleby Gaines: Schrader, you were afraid when you're tooth fell out because you were terrified of the Tooth Fairy. Sherman Schrader: That's actually a legitimate fear. She was rifling through my shit.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Sebastian: You amaze me. Kathryn: Eat me, Sebastian! It's okay for guys like you and Court to fuck everyone. But when I do it, I get dumped for innocent little twits like Cecile. God forbid, I exude confidence and enjoy sex. Do you think I relish the fact that I have to act like Mary Sunshine 24/7 so I can be considered a lady? I'm the Marcia fucking Brady of the Upper East Side, and sometimes I want to kill myself. So there's your psychoanalysis, Dr. Freud. Now tell me, are you in... or are you out?
Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
Cmdr. William Riker: Captain, why we are we out here chasing comets? Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Let's just say Starfleet has every confidence in the Enterprise and her crew - they're just not sure about her Captain. They believe that a man who was once captured and assimilated by the Borg should not be put in a situation where he would face them again. To do so would introduce "an unstable element to a critical situation." Cmdr. William Riker: That's ridiculous. Your experience with the Borg makes you the perfect man to lead this fight. Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Admiral Hayes disagrees.
A shell in the pit,
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.
Accept who you are; and revel in it.
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting,
A great man is always willing to be little.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.
Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.
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