5,361 Quotes About Confidence

The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything.(attrib: E. Tancarville)

...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)

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

I am unshakable.

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Sometimes the most important thing a person could do was to simply show up.

I always hated myself when at the end of a dream I realized that my soul was the one that started it and my logic the one that ended it

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

Grounding is most effective when you have some place to go. When you know where you are going, grounding brings strength and confidence, when you’re stagnant you get caught in the past.