#confidence
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Maya Fadeeva - Warrior
#MayaFadeeva #music #fortitude #confidence #warrior #musique #musica #musik
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Letter to Mrs. Foote (1887-12-02)
#quote #quotes #quotation #confidence #ignorance #success
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Show me the Asian, African or Afroasiatic equivalent to #Beethoven or #Mozart. No such non-Indo-European equivalent exists.
Then of course there's Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Alexander, Gustavus Adolphus, Michelangelo, De Vinci, Newton, Monet, van Gogh, James Watt, Adam Smith, Nikolaus Otto, von Braun, Babbage, Jack Kilby, Chaucer, Dante & Tolstoy to name a few.
Philosophy, statecraft, military strategy, engineering, science, mathematics, music, art, literature. All that's needed is cultural #confidence; people-group self-belief.
Beethoven's 7th Symphony
https://youtu.be/7MqrBauptrE
Mozart's Requiem in D minor
https://youtu.be/XmttZ-BnwaI
#culturalconfidence #westerncivilization #indoeuropean #europe #europeandiaspora #selfbelief #ascendent #uk #usa #nzl #aus #ca
A quotation from Stewart, Potter
Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. Long ago, those who wrote our First Amendment charted a different course. They believed a society can be truly strong only when it is truly free. In the realm of expression, they put their faith, for better or for worse, in the enlightened choice of the people, free from the interference of a policeman’s intrusive thumb or a judge’s heavy hand. So it is that the Constitution protects coarse expression as well as refined, and vulgarity no less than elegance. A book worthless to me may convey something of value to my neighbor. In the free society to which our Constitution has committed us, it is for each to choose for himself.
Potter Stewart (1915-1985) US Supreme Court Justice (1959-81)
Ginzburg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463, 498 (1966) [dissenting]
#quote #quotes #quotation #authoritarianism #censorship #confidence #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #firstamendment
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I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
“Answers to Correspondents,” The Californian (17 Jun 1865)
#quote #quotation #character #confidence #flaws #human-nature #prude #saint #trust #vice #imperfection
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A quotation from Hogan, Robert
Narcissists seem brave, they radiate charismatic energy, and they self-promote like mad. The big thing for narcissists is that they interview very well. Search committees can’t get enough of these guys.
Robert Hogan (b. 1937) American psychologist
In Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door, ch. 6 (2014)
#quote #quotation #confidence #interviewing #narcissism #recruitment
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British PM #BorisJohnson narrowly survives #confidence #vote that could've ousted him from power
The British prime minister narrowly won a confidence vote among his own lawmakers Monday, leaving him damaged but still in power and his ruling Conservative Party bitterly divided over its once-talismanic leader who has become plagued by #scandal.