A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
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View all 53 →Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.
First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.
George Saunders
Short-story writer and novelist
I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
I’m not going to change anything about myself. I am happy and blessed with what God gave me, and I really have nothing to complain about.
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Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
To place faith over facts.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
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