"I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra."

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Source : Source: www.achievement.org

Denton Cooley

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“If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
“My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.”
“As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.”
“Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.”
“Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.”
“Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.”
“Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.”

Source : Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett
“I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.”

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