"Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get."

-- Shirley Conran

#Self Confidence Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.”
“Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.”
“Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.”
“I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
“All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.”
“The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.”
“It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.”
“I kind of wish people didnâ€™t know who I am, that I could just lie, say Iâ€™m a speechwriter for Obama. This is what I said before Twilight. And then Obama came along and picked up all these young writers. I found out this guy, Jon Favreau â€” whoâ€™s not the actor Jon Favreau â€” is writing for him. And I was like, Wow, I wonder if the people who thought I was bullshitting at the time are like, â€˜Oh my god. That guy! That kid who was drunk in some bar actually wrote the health care bill!â€™”

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