Word: self-doubt
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...performance standards and refocused the company by selling off ill-advised acquisitions like drugmaker Sterling Winthrop, thereby cutting Kodak's $8 billion debt burden to a comfortable $1 billion. At the same time, he has greatly accelerated Kodak's once sluggish product-development cycles. "There is no self-doubt as to where the opportunities lie," says company president Daniel Carp, a 27-year Kodak veteran and Fisher's presumed heir. Nor, Carp adds, is there any lack of confidence in Kodak's ability to cash in on those opportunities or to meet Fisher's goal of increasing the company...
...perhaps, I like to think, the death of Diana has acted as a kind of catharsis for her nation. This has not been a happy half-century for the British. It has been a time of frustration and febrile self-doubt. Most of the national institutions, from the monarchy itself to the BBC, have lost their old sense of confident authority. In an age when no island is an island anymore, the very national identity, once apparently so unassailable, has been whittled away. British traditions have been discarded, British values have lost their meaning. A great people seems...
...album represents a shift away from the comparatively innocent adolescent fantasies of Daydream. Underneath its cool sheen runs a thread of insecurity and loneliness that gives Butterfly a richer, more mature outlook. On the cut Outside, Carey sings of the creeping self-doubt of the lovelorn: "In your heart, uncertainty forever lies/ And you'll always be somewhere on the outside." Says Carey: "I feel more free to put more of myself into my music. There's a lot of real emotion in Butterfly. I lived with it. I woke...
...often we wrapped ourselves in our own little world. We ignored classmates' cries for help as they drowned in loneliness and self-doubt. Or walked past the homeless begging for money to eat. Or looked past the maids, janitors and cooks toiling each day in our midst so that we need not. We forgot that to whom much is given, much is expected...
...above. This isn't a plea for sympathy; along with their self-doubt, journalists are given to insufferable vanity and sanctimony. And if you're like most Americans, you despise them for it. But look a little closer, and see the newsreader's eyes widen when the TelePrompTer starts to stutter, or see the slight tremble in the hand that holds the notepad when the survivors tell the reporter to mind his own damn business. Look a little closer, and then the jig is up. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: this...