Candace Bushnell Quotes

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.

Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

I never get really nervous.

When you're in control, when confidence is high, everything moves slower around you.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

I never suffered for lack of confidence. I knew I would succeed; you have to. I think I couldn't go into any venture any other way.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

I know what I can do, so I never doubt myself.

I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.