Keyword: Confidence

A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter
Communication Reading/Writing

Confidence: What you have before you understand the problem.

Definitions

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

Characteristics Intelligence Situations Understanding

The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.

Characteristics Intelligence

When I was duck hunting with Bear Bryant, he shot at one but it kept flying.
"John," he said, "There flies a dead duck…"
Now, that's confidence.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

A church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

(1959 – ) Australian writer & television producer
Beliefs Things

If you act like you know what you’re doing, you can do anything you want… except neurosurgery.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair; but a confident bald man… there's your diamond in the rough.

(1947 – ) American comedian, writer, actor & television producer
Appearance

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Intelligence Success

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Intelligence Problems Understanding

I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Characteristics Insults

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Intelligence Life Stupidity Success

If confidence could be bought, all the rich people would have it and all the poor people would have to… make their own arrangements.

English football player & manager
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