Word: stamina
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...secret to Gonzalez's freakish stamina is the triple grande vanilla latte. "I'm totally a coffee junkie," she says. "If I can smell coffee around me, I must stop and have one. And now there are Starbucks inside Target stores and supermarkets, which makes it harder to resist." Gonzalez estimates that she consumes a pot of coffee a day, but she refuses to speculate about the sums of money she drops at the Seattle-based coffee chain. So dependent is Gonzalez on caffeine that she says she can't remember conversations until she has had her morning...
...wasn’t funny, as I had told the two Gossip Guys long ago, so I didn’t try to continue the Gossip Guy tradition. Our staff was smaller than usual, so we cut the magazine to 20 pages. I didn’t have the stamina of Liz Maher, so I delegated production duties and relied more on my editors. And now, looking back on the past year, I like the results. That’s the great thing about FM-—it’s constantly changing...
...depth of the Crimson made even that a difficult task for the overmatched Quakers. Not only did Harvard swimmers win first place in 15 events, they also grabbed many second and third place finishes as well, pushing themselves to improve their techniques and stamina while Penn swimmers gave up the fight early...
...irritating: "You don't want your star performer to go on TV and say, 'Don't come and see this show.'" Co - writer Tom Meehan is more blunt. "Musicals aren't fun to rehearse," he says. "These actors must be like athletes training. They have to build up stamina to do a very physical show eight times a week. I wouldn't call it bullying, but you shape up or ship...
...simple: the expectation of a positive outcome. By itself, confidence doesn’t create high performance; in fact, confidence is a consequence of success as much as a precursor of it. Success comes from doing the work well. But confidence provides the strength to try harder, the stamina not to give up at difficult moments, the resilience to recover from fumbles and setbacks that are inevitable in high-pressured college life. “Kanter’s Law” holds that everything can look like a failure in the middle. Confidence makes it possible to persist through...