"Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe. The success of a man who deals with reality augments his self-confidence. The success of a con man augments his panic."

-- Ayn Rand

#Self Esteem Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Small pitchers have wyde eares.”
“If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.”
“People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.”

Source : Jay Heinrichs (2011). “Word Hero: A Fiendishly Clever Guide to Crafting the Lines that Get Laughs, Go Viral, and Live Forever”, p.72, Three Rivers Press
“Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.”
“For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.”
“But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.”
“Yeah, except that when I write pop songs I have pretty strict constraints that I impose on myself. 69 Love Songs is a constraint. That the titles have to begin with "I'"s is a relatively strict constraint. Charm of the Highway Strip is all travel songs. And I am free to change the plot slightly to accommodate something that happens to rhyme conveniently.”

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