"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 ... self-confidence, and I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra. So that sort of lack of confidence helped me, I think, to make a good record when I was a student."

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Denton Cooley

#Self Confidence Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone passing him on the street raised his hat and said, 'Good day,' Litvinoff often paused so long to weigh evidence that by the time he'd settled on an answer the person had gone on his way, leaving him standing alone.”
“Her, Me, whipped cream, handcuffs. Any questions?”
“My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.”
“I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace,”
“Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldnâ€™t change because then I wouldnâ€™t be the person that I am today. The past is the past. I just want to focus on the future, and getting better, not making the same mistakes and just becoming a better person, a better artist. Just a better everything.”
“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”

Source : Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.”

Source : John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.245
“O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.”

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