Katty Kay Quotes

#1. Maybe Nike has it right. At some point we have to stop thinking, and just do it.

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#2. We found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.

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#3. Columbia Business School even has a term for it now. They call it "honest overconfidence" and they have found that men on average rate their performance to be 30 percent better than it is.

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#4. The propensity to dwell on failure and mistakes, and an inability to shut out the outside world are, in his mind, the biggest psychological impediments for his female players, and they directly affect performance and confidence on the court.

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#5. Confidence is the purity of action produced by a mind free of doubt.

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#6. Anyone who tells you that American seniors are not either going to have their services cut or we're going to have to pay more is ... lying about it.

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#7. The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn't let fear of failure stop them.

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#8. Confidence, ultimately, is the characteristic that distinguishes those who imagine from those who do.

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#9. Confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.

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#10. Dare the difference. That we like. "You have to be savvy about it," Lagarde allows, "but you also, in a sense, have to be confident about the difference.

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