Sully Sullenberger Quotes

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

If I walk into a room, I'm quite content to sit in the corner and chat with people who walk by. But coaching forced me to come out of my shell.

When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of course, I'm not perfect, but I've definitely grown as far as being comfortable on stage.

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.

As a young guy I was really shy, more shy than I am now.

Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn't as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.

I'm proud of myself, and I'm going to continue to grow.

I know what my strengths are, and I have worked really hard on my weaknesses as well.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

I do believe in self-help.

Improvement begins with I.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.