#flinch

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence. ↗

— Julien Smith

#choices #choosing #confidence #feelings #flinch

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#doing #emotionally #flinching #getting #i

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! ↗

— Winston Churchill

#away #back #danger #double #flinching

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#difficult #difficult times #extinction #faced #flinching

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#adult life #bound #flinching #i #i tried

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is. ↗

— Julien Smith

#anxiety #courage #courageous #facing-fear #fear

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past. ↗

— Julien Smith

#courage #flinch #future #knowledge #past

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching. ↗

— Mira Nair

#art #flinching #i #i can #only

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#attempting #blessed #destiny #eye #flinching