Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence!

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Confidence
  • Create
  • Greed

• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Action

• I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Man
  • Woman

• I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Up
  • Free

• I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Focus
  • Confidence

• 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• I often find it's just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It's how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Confidence
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • May
  • Confidence

• A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Reflection

• I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.

  

  Alek Wek
  • People
  • Different
  • Dark

• That's a strong sign of a good coach, to let an assistant participate. It shows his confidence in the coach's ability not to have to dominate everything.

  

  Jerry West
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Confidence

• For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

  

  Charley Pride
  • Experience
  • Single
  • Confidence

• I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

  

  Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Reflection

• The key thing is confidence, and you get that from the actions that you take. It can be anything from getting chicks, being in a fight, having success at work, having a good family. A lot of that stuff comes from having confidence, so that's one of the biggest things.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Protection
  • Open
  • Court

• My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Better

• I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

  

  Clive Owen

• Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.

  

  Nick Bantock
  • Artist
  • Path
  • Memories

• What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence!

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Confidence
  • Reflection
  • Majesty