Gaining Confidence

Famous quotes containing the words gaining and/or confidence:

“Some people fear gaining fame the way pigs fear gaining weight.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
—Janet Malcolm (b. 1934)