Famous Quotes & Sayings

Investors are taking the easy way out ? they're sitting on their hands. The main confusion is a lack of confidence in just when the economy will turn up and the economy will improve. The prime mood in the market is one of no conviction.

Jerry Stackhouse

In the second half, we didn't play well offensively and couldn't get into a good posture defensively either. They got their confidence and we started pressing a bit. They escalated and we went on a downslide.

John Gavin

In the long term, improving investor confidence is a marathon, not a sprint.

Louis Orr

In the second half, a few turnovers hurt us. We have to sustain our confidence for two halves.

Jeffrey Donaldson

In the past, decommissioning as a process has been shrouded in secrecy and if we are to increase public confidence in the process then we want it to be more transparent,

In terms of confidence that a vendor can pull it off, with multiple events at the same time, there were only a few who can do it.

Jason Kidd

In the back of your mind, you have confidence that you have done something right and you can look at it on tape. But at the end of the day, it is 0-0 (in the playoffs) and the first one to four.

If you shoot 65 anytime, it's always good and it'll give me confidence. My putting worked for me today. I'm very happy with my performance today.

Matt Bowen

If you work hard for Gregg, he's going to put you in position to make plays. I think everyone likes the way he coaches. He doesn't have favorites. He doesn't play favorites. We have a defensive team, and he expects guys to work hard and make plays. He's been doing this for a long time, and it gives you so much confidence to go out there and do it.

Frank Robinson

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

Francis Bacon

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

George Santayana

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

George Santayana

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

George Michael

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Jeanette Winterson

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Hopefully that will have a good showing and then people will get confidence back into Thai equity again. I'm quite skeptical about anything that's government or politically sensitive.

Hopefully it?s only up from here. I don?t know if it?s totally sunk in that I?m playing in the NHL, but I?m playing a lot and it?s helped out and that?s the same for the other young guys. We had a great experience last year with the Calder Cup run and now we have a lot of confidence and it?s working out.

Ron Howard

Hoop can actually play. If he was to get in the game early in the first half, you wouldn't see any drop-off at all. He understands the game and we've got a lot of confidence in him.

Chauncey Billups

He tore the kid's confidence apart. It was tough for him to recover. ... The kid has unbelievable talent.

He's wrestling real well. He's wrestling on the offensive. He just has a lot of confidence right now.

Bryant McKinnie

He's won a Super Bowl. I have confidence in Brad, but I'm not going to say for the next three years.

GDP numbers could surprise a little to the upside, and that may be why the Fed said what it did. Confidence numbers could also be surprising, in light of recent reports.

Jennifer James

Gary has definitely instilled a lot of confidence in the team this year.

Get him back there, be a little more successful, enjoy it again, get his confidence back up, work on the things he needs to work on, then we'll see where we go from there.

Sergey Lavrov

Generally and in principle when confidence in the Iranian nuclear program is re-established ... we could come back to the possible implementation of the right that Iran has to develop a nuclear energy sector full scale.

For no other reason than confidence it's a big night for me, ... I've never had three hits in a game and that gives me a lot of confidence.

Erica Jong

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

Eoin Colfer

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Pat White

But I have confidence in our guys. They showed what they can do last season.

Before the out, I was looking at first base. It's great for a young player to have that kind of confidence in himself to make that play.

Hannibal Buress

Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, 'Hannibal, why don't you put the napkin in your lap?' Because I believe in myself. I believe in my ability to not spill food in my pants 'cause I'm a goddamn adult. And I've mastered the art of getting food from my plate to my mouth without messing up my jeans. You need to believe in yourself, too and get your life together, that's for babies. Have some confidence in your eating abilities and hand/eye coordination.

Ari Fleischer

high confidence that there is not an issue here.