It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.
Zadie SmithTags: writing confidence writing-process
As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee, I'll beg friends to assure me I'm fascinating, that my soul is complex so I can once more conduce to irony. An abyss opens up.
Maryse HolderTags: self-esteem confidence despair loneliness irony assurance
It is only when we see the worst that Man can offer, that we begin to see the best that Man still holds. If they are blinded by greed, then it’s time to pick up our virtual stones so we can start knocking sense into ‘em...
Faith BrashearTags: life liberty justice confidence life-lessons good-and-evil strength-of-character criminal-justice defrauded-nations
People shouldn’t be ashamed of what they are. And it will help them, to gain self esteem and confidence.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: self-esteem confidence ashmed
Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.
Peter TremayneTags: confidence sin pride competence pride-in-office
I know nothing of being a wife, but I have learned much about the running and maintenance of an estate. It may be that you will find my manner too straightforward for your tastes, but, my lord, it is just that - my manner. Would that I die before I give up that part of me.
Denise DomningTags: confidence feminism gender-roles straightforwardness manner
Do not just believe in God and neglect the fact that He has an unprecedented belief in you.
Johnnie Dent Jr.Tags: confidence motivation self-confidence
I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke emotions and images and smells and sensations, and that is what I set out to do.
Erin M. TruesdaleTags: writing confidence
What I find powerful is a person with
the confidence to be her own self.
Tags: power self-esteem confidence
...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say "Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156)
Jack KerouacTags: confidence indifference eating indecency
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