Linus Torvalds Quotes

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

I always thought it's way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain way

Makeup is a way for a woman to look and feel like herself, only prettier and more confident

People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.

I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.

I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.

To think confidently, act confidently... Act the way you want to feel.

I understand... the pressure is definitely hard, but I think just keeping your head on your shoulders is easier than it looks. I think if you know who you are, then I think you'll be fine for the rest of the way.

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

I think I look nicer now. It's really weird cause when you're 21 you think, "Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then". And actually I quite like the way I look. I feel OK about myself these days.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

I just try to be true to myself and look the way that I'm comfortable looking. Because if I'm comfortable with me, then you're going to be comfortable with me as well.

I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.

Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the "Daily Show", she was like no - there is no - the only way you'll learn this job is by doing this job.

The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

If you get made fun for the way you look, then maybe wearing the same thing every day is the best way to protect yourself.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.