Katty Kay Quotes

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Katty Kay

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 14, 1964

Everybody fails, its no big deal. Its what being human is. Dont let that stop you from taking risks.

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Globalisation, with inexorable speed, has changed the world we live in. For all of us. Jobs have changed, the way we trade has changed, who we employ has changed and the feel of where we live has changed.

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Confidence is not the same as self-esteem.

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I have wardrobes full of dresses and tops I only ever wear for TV and if I limited myself to only tops with sleeves, the choice would be even narrower.

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When a man comments on your physical appearance, the effect is often just to distract from your professional ability.

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Europeans have long had a complicated and somewhat insecure relationship with the US, part admiration, part jealousy, part irritation.

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It's never clear to me why it's so hard for people to say sorry. It's a simple word, just two syllables and its positive impact is enormous.

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Closing the confidence gap means being honest about your abilities, not constantly undervaluing them.

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Television is an X-ray. If you try to be something youre not, television will pick it up.

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Boris Johnson and Donald Trump appeal to the heart not the head, they offer simple solutions in a time of complex problems.

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The United States is a country founded on the ideal of freedom and equality, values later underlined by key historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

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Confidence has nothing to do with a manner. Its to do with a belief that you can succeed at something.

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We talked to a lot of psychologists who were working in business schools who put men and women in front of scientific reasoning quizzes. The women will routinely think they have done less well than they have done. The men will think they have done better than they have done. In reality, they have done about the same.

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I read the news every night to millions of people around the world. It doesnt test my confidence.

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Im good at getting information and synthesizing it. Its not that I doubt myself on that. Its, do you have the Ph.D. first-class brain or do you have the really good second-class brain? Because I came from a very academic culture, I always slightly felt I wasnt in the very top group.

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When I started on Twitter, I was just staggered by how rude people could be.

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Ive actually developed a well of confidence. But would I apply for the 'Financial Times' economics correspondent? No, I would feel I wasnt up there.

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Learn Spanish and realize that youll fail, go for that risk assignment at work, try building a relationship with that new client, raise your hand in that meeting to ask that question.

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My best teacher was my mother. She was a diplomats wife living in the Arab world in the 70s and 80s who always worked, even in really tough circumstances.

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About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment of thinking, 'My God, Im a complete failure. Ill never work again.'

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