Katty Kay famous quotes

If you choose not to act, you have little chance of success. What’s more, when you choose to act, you’re able to succeed more frequently than you think. How often in life do we avoid doing something because we think we’ll fail? Is failure really worse than doing nothing? And how often might we actually have triumphed if we had just decided to give it a try?
-- Katty Kay

#Thinking #Giving #Trying

Confidence is the purity of action produced by a mind free of doubt.
-- Katty Kay

#Doubt #Mind #Action

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.
-- Katty Kay

#Ambition #Differences #Desire

confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.
-- Katty Kay

#Confidence #Choices

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.
-- Katty Kay

#Confidence #Important #Doe

Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why.
-- Katty Kay

#People #Economist #Policy

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.
-- Katty Kay

#Senior #Lying #Cutting

I think if you look at the things that Donald Trump has done that has satisfied conservatives. The fact that he still believes that he is their guy and then add to that the fact that Democrats don't have any sign of a competent effective leader that can marry their cultural left and the economic left going into 2020, I think Donald Trump stands a pretty good chance of being reelected.
-- Katty Kay

#Believe #Thinking #Guy

The skepticism that has grown up about elites is totally justified. Since 2008, no one has gone to jail on Wall Street for the crash and elites have not been able to fix the problem, right? We haven't managed to fix post manufacturing job growth. We haven't fixed the issues to do with immigration.
-- Katty Kay

#Wall #Growth #Immigration

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.