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Letter "C" » Confidence
«The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.»
Author: Colin Powell
| About:
Confidence,
Leadership
| Keywords:
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«There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Confidence,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
block, block out, screen, screened, screening, screens, screen out
«The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.»
«There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Achievement,
Confidence,
Desire,
Fame,
Freedom,
Strength
| Keywords:
adequacy, defining, prestige, secondly
«The Beatles will exist without us.»
«Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| About:
Confidence,
Mankind
| Keywords:
attentive, confidences, efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, recipients, self-effacing
«To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
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«The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
admiration, inspires
«The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Confidence,
Government
| Keywords:
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«There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Confidence,
Leadership
| Keywords:
confidence, sapped, sapping, saps, There Is Nothing
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