Confidence Quote by Lillian Hellman

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

— Morihei Ueshiba

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

— Aaron Levie

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

— John Charles Polanyi

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The inept are gifted at overlooking the extent of their incompetence. They suffer from illusory superiority, which leads them to make even more thinking…

— Rolf Dobelli

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Ted Nordhaus

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

— Agnes Repplier

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more…

— Seth Godin

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“The secret of being a good scientist, I believe, lies not in our brain power. We have enough. We simply need to look at…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

— Edward Gibbon