Tom Junod Quotes

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

Maybe I'm a little more confident than I used to be, but not much.

I have got better over the years, and I know what sort of fighter I am.

I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.

I think confidence comes with age and experience, honestly.

A beginner cook is going to have to be patient to really learn well. When you start to beat your master, that's when you're really starting to master the thing. But it's going to take a while. After that, you have to define what you want to be, who you want to be, where you want to be.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

When you get older, you feel better about yourself. You're not worried what other people think about you, in general. You just get more comfortable in your skin.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.

I think I don't have as much to prove now.

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.