Overshooting Your Confidence Quotes & Sayings

I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio. — Blake Lively

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles. — Mason Cooley

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. — Henry Ward Beecher

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid. — Andrew Keen

It is a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize. — Jodi Picoult

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one. — Charlie Kimball

I live my life out loud. Turn down the radio and you'll miss out on the true beauty of the song. — Shantaye Brown

They talk as an English butler might after several years in a Chicago grand-opera company. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I never change, I simply become more myself. — Joyce Carol Oates

I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I'm really badly equipped to be an actress. — Romola Garai

Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV. — Paolo Bacigalupi

There are things you don't notice until you accompany someone with a wheelchair. One is how rubbish most pavements are, pockmarked with badly patched holes, or just plain uneven. Walking slowly next to Will as he wheeled himself along, I noticed how every uneven slab caused him to jolt painfully, or how often he had to steer carefully round some potential obstacle. Nathan pretended not to notice, but I saw him watching too. Will just looked grim-faced and resolute. The other thing is how inconsiderate most drivers are. They park up against the cutouts on the pavement, or so close together that there is no way for a wheelchair to actually cross the road. I was shocked, a couple of times even tempted to leave some rude note tucked into a windscreen wiper, but Nathan and Will seemed used to it. Nathan pointed out a suitable crossing place and, each of us flanking Will, we finally crossed. — Jojo Moyes

All this security and prospects are different for different people. Somebody is happy playing music and with a less pay, somebody is secure in the corporate world with a high pay with headache. We have individual tastes, tastes are not universal. — Ravindra Shukla

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. — Graham Greene