Spurling tells of a life plagued by desperation, self-doubt and nervous anguish, which required an assuaging art of calm. |
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They contain no vestige of self-doubt, no scintilla of scientific uncertainty and more than a hint of patronage. |
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For what you describe, I would suggest a combination of the two, to remove self-doubt and negativity and replace it with confidence and luck. |
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The only reason we keep expecting our tennis players to do well is that they are middle class and lack self-doubt. |
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In reality, he was racked with self-doubt, hesitant, and liable always to agree with the last person he had spoken to. |
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A lot of soul-searching and prayer went into his choice to venture down a new path and he went through his moments of self-doubt. |
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Instead of obediently yielding to the will of these gods, he took his destiny into his own hands, even though he remained plagued by self-doubt. |
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The accumulated rage, hurt and self-doubt become so entrenched that even teens from loving homes may never recover. |
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Youthful impetuosity and confidence has given way to caution and self-doubt, fuelled by a whole array of injuries over the years. |
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This lack of knowledge contributes to self-doubt about the scenario the nurse has witnessed. |
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I forgive the original causes of my self-doubt and self-deception, including my family. |
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Far from being arrogant, today's doctors are diffident and afflicted by insecurity and self-doubt. |
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Despite that, she says she is riddled with self-doubt underneath the confident exterior. |
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The reality is, friendship is normally outweighed by a nagging seam of insecurity and self-doubt. |
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Without the crutch of music, self-doubt menaced him, and he was a reluctant public communicator. |
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The internal turmoil is deepened by a distorted body image, which is created through self-doubt and lack of self-worth. |
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Newspaper columnists and political talk-shows reflect a tone of self-doubt and unease about the conduct of the war to date. |
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Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight. |
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And this person we see staggering along and full of self-doubt, is he or she not also each and every one of us? |
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But perhaps that self-doubt was the price to pay to create the finely wrought gems they did manage to complete. |
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Our political debate has for too long been infected by a virus of self-doubt and anxiety. |
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People don't like nuance in a leader, they don't like any self-doubt whatsoever. |
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In fact, Hill drove with intense commitment and energy, but was always a bundle of nerves and self-doubt. |
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At other times, overcome with shyness, self-doubt, despair and exhaustion, he was practically a recluse. |
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In some cases, it also broke their self-confidence and instilled fear and self-doubt. |
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Tormented by self-doubt and fears, Liseli is unable to find her place in life. |
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An I Ching reading suggested action and nonaction, negating the momentary trap of self-doubt. |
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But this memoir is full not of braggadocio, but of self-doubt, as well as wit, humour and passion. |
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Low scores indicate self-doubt, a belief that one is unworthy or undesirable, and lack of self-confidence. |
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As secular identity becomes enervated, incoherent, and perplexed, as we grow tired and unstrung by self-doubt, hating them offers odd comfort. |
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Procrastination often comes from unrealistic perfectionist tendencies, self-doubt, or fear of change. |
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It means withstanding the moments of feeling alone, the moments of self-doubt. |
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Surely winning comedy's biggest prize in 1995 must have abated this self-doubt? |
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We use it to comfort ourselves, quell anxiety and fear, and numb those feelings of self-doubt. |
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Then he tells me that he is racked by self-doubt and is never satisfied with the interviews he has conducted. |
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The split was far from amicable and plunged the normally perky star into a well of depression and self-doubt. |
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There are no love songs on this album, and very few signs of self-doubt, just a calm assuredness and a fearless determination. |
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In this fearful and cynical climate, talk about space only brings our self-doubt and loathing to the fore rather than doing anything to tackle it. |
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Few players seem to reach big-time sport without some crises along the way, such as injuries, self-doubt, mismanagement or personal baggage. |
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This time, though, Pacino's skill gives Dormer an equal balance of self-doubt and ball-busting. |
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Even so, she suffers simultaneously from that perennial thespian complaint of neuroticism fuelled by depressing self-doubt. |
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As a bright but unremarkable working-class child, she was crippled by shyness and self-doubt. |
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As a coltish 16-year-old who was unprepared to deal with her still-maturing body, she began to struggle with weight control and self-doubt. |
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Sarah has been an incisive critic of my work, an unequalled friend in moments of self-doubt, and an eident copy-editor. |
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But self-doubt, while a healthy quality for human beings to have, is alas not a plus for politicians. |
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In Shakespeare, Welles found a refracted form of confession, self-doubt, and self-accusation. |
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One tournament win doesn't inspire confidence but his play this week has been exceptional, a total contrast to the self-doubt that dogged him in recent times. |
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They don't extirpate every scintilla of self-doubt you've ever had. |
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The stigmatized person becomes laden with intense disabling feelings of anguish, shame, dejection, self-doubt, guilt, self-blame and inferiority. |
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The best also reveal in their protagonists an acute sense of human fallibility and self-doubt. |
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All in all, though, there was no mistaking the discomfort, self-doubt, and unsureness that ran through the evening's subtext. |
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Here is the thunderous end of her answer to a 25-year-old who is lost in a sea of self-doubt and demotivation: Life is not about knowing. |
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His self-doubt prompts him to exert more control and project bitterness. |
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As the old patterns die in their minds and the new ones begin to take shape, people are assailed by self-doubt and misgivings about their leaders. |
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Only the two white puppets can act out the story, and the others toddle off stage in the depths of depression and self-doubt. |
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My questions only reflect your self-doubt and my naivete is only the veil of your own naivety. |
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But while we are racked by self-doubt, the rest of the world is dreaming of Europe. |
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Contemporary nationalism doesn't leave space for self-doubt, and their truth is enduring regardless of circumstance. |
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Oddly enough, you see-saw between overconfidence and self-doubt. |
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Do we believe in Europa, or do we see a figure plagued with self-doubt, who does not know her role in this society, in this network of connections between individual countries? |
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There is also increasing self-doubt within the Community as the recession has led to an unacceptable increase in unemployment which is threatening to undermine the foundations of our society. |
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She knows whom to call when she gets lonely, sad or full of self-doubt. |
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But there will always be those who are hostile out of fear and self-doubt, because deep down they see something too terrible to acknowledge or accept. |
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The collection allows us a clearer understanding of a complex person: a passionate, vibrant, accomplished woman given to periods of lethargy, self-doubt and depression. |
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Persistent self-doubt is an obstacle to self-confidence and this, in turn, may hinder the development of decision-making skills and may well lead to unhealthy activities and habits. |
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Not even the delight of passing his driving test or having more time to indulge his devotion to Real Madrid could assuage the inner torment of self-doubt. |
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Don Pedro's arc moves him from proud hidalgo to magnificent obsessive, an all-macho embodiment of the extremes of empowerment, totally devoid of any self-doubt. |
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Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt. |
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Such moments control the masterfully disorienting 1928 sequence The Descent of Winter, written on shipboard, and focused on self-doubt in middle age. |
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These diarised moments of brutal honesty, twinned with hesitant uncertainty, are typical of Woolf's swings between self-doubt and dogged ambition. |
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And even the old-line, skeptical faculty can accommodate such ambitions, tempted by the promise of added status and goaded by self-doubt about the value of their own careers. |
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Perhaps it was from this socially secure family that Reynold received his patrician ease, his apparent freedom from self-doubt, and his refined aesthetic sense. |
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Unlike many who achieve senior union office, he was plagued with self-doubt, freely admitted it and seemed almost immune to the spotlight and any kind of self-promotion. |
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By the end the whizzkid is scrounging tips as a supermarket janitor, a victim either of self-doubt or of fear about where his strange powers might lead. The character and conceit might together have made a good novella. |
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It's here that Knausgaard relates the slow slide of his father into full-blown suicidal dipsomania, Karl Ove's fractious relationship with literary success, his intense self-doubt and sometimes staggering arrogance. |
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There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt. |
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Ms Patchett tracks Marina's thoughts with particular intuitiveness so that her character's feelings of isolation, fear and self-doubt begin to creep across the reader's own skin. |
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Despite the precociousness, the British star insists she's full of self-doubt. |
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Faith should be a matter of arduous struggle and self-doubt, but the partygoer wants the experience to be easy, immediate and elevating. |
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The high school wrestling champ doesn't wrestle with self-doubt. |
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He expresses self-doubt, apologizes, micromanages, and is always concerned about the human rights of women and black persons as well as anyone impacted by the war. |
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