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Projecting over-confidence while feeling under-confidence is the worst of all possible worlds. The trick is to nurture enough confidence to propel high achievement while avoiding either arrogance and complacency or debilitating self-doubt. Arrogance means feeling entitled to success without working for it, despair means feeling too overwhelmed and hopeless to even tackle the work. Confidence is the sweet spot in between...
Luxury quotient: A near religious devotion to exotic ingredients has helped propel the brand. The success of its $290 lifting cream more than doubled the company's skin-care sales--making it one of the few makeup lines to thrive in that competitive market...
...blur of instruction and farce as seven men and one woman try to grasp the basics of paddling in unison and in the same direction. "Easy forward," we quickly learn, is the command we will most enjoy; "Hard forward!" is the call that will exhaust our arms and propel us over rapids and submerged rocks. "Go left!" and "Go right!" involve two paddlers throwing themselves across the raft - and usually onto their fellow paddlers with varying degrees of injury - while I will become the first of the trip to obey the "Dive!' command, flinging myself flat to avoid being impaled...
...Hansen?s loss did not sit well with teammate and fellow University of Texas backstroker Aaron Peirsol, who accused Kitajima of using an illegal dolphin kick to help propel him off the wall after turns. ?I was pretty angry after Brendan?s race,? he told reporters following his own backstroke heat. ?That?s [Brendan?s] medal. [Kitajima] knew what he was doing; he was cheating. Instead of gliding off the start, he took a huge dolphin kick to give him extra momentum. He knows we can?t see that. He takes gold and he was cheating.? U.S. team captain Eddie...
...result, while speakers have strong concern about the direction America is heading, most have steered clear of focusing too much on criticisms of Bush. Democratic officials say they hope the more optimistic strategy—employed with great success in 1992—can help propel Kerry to victory...