It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you s...hould get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that ... the ghosts you chase you never catch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before... he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; s...hall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that per...son's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Miss Dudley ... gives one the idea of a lightly-sparred yacht in mid- ocean; unexpected; you ask yourself what the devil she is d...oing there. She sails gaily along, though there is no land in sight and plenty of rough weather coming. She never read a book, I believe, in her life. She tries to paint, but she is only a second-rate amateur and will never be any thing more, though she has done one or two things which I give you my word I would like to have done myself. She picks up all she knows without an effort and knows nothing well, yet she seems to understand whatever is said. Her mind is as irregular as her face, and both have the same peculiarity. I notice that the lines of her eyebrows, nose and mouth all end with a slight upward curve like a yacht's sails, which gives a kind of hopefulness and self-confidence to her expression. Mind and face have the same curves."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My verse forms are relatively traditional (traditions alter). In general they have moved away from strict classical patterns in th...e direction of greater freedom--as is usual with most artists learning a trade. It takes courage, however, to leave all props behind, to cast oneself, like Matisse, upon pure space. I still await that confidence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creature...s are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restori...ng that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The root of the problem is not so much that our people have lost confidence in government, but that government has demonstrated ti...me and again its lack of confidence in the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »