I love Tina Turner. I’m one of Tina Turner’s biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material. – Bonnie Tyler
This is our culture, and I don’t care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn’t have confidence in himself or else he doesn’t believe in what he’s doing. – Betty Carter
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. – Ben Jonson
And I think it’s because good cons are all based on the victim’s need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim. – Alfred Molina
It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart. – Anthony Joshua
You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. – Chris Evert
Any new producer starting up is to get investors’ confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world. – Ann Macbeth
I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, ‘What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?’ Like, everyone collectively decided, ‘We’re done!’ Over time I got more confidence. – Ben Silbermann
When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life. – Bill Rancic
I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don’t really utilize because they don’t have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do. – Caitlyn Jenner
Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it’s about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more. – Ariel Pink
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience. – Alain Prost
If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself. – Alex Ferguson
At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence. – Arsene Wenger
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. – Ansel Adams
I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world. – Azzedine Alaia
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice. – Bela Karolyi
Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world. – Bunker Roy
I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt. – Angela Merkel
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds. – Camryn Manheim
Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn’t work, and it takes confidence to say we haven’t failed yet… Ultimately, you become commercially successful. – Clayton Christensen
With movies, so much of it is, ‘Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?’ Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference. – Annette Bening
I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy. – Alexandra Roach
Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility. – Bill Dedman
I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations. – Alex Morrison
