As the Brookings researchers pointed out, even the least self-confident Singaporean students, on average, outscored the most self-confident Americans.
But when the team is very fragile on the pitch and mentally not so self confident it is difficult.
In these challenging economic times, critical thinking and self-confident leadership are more important than ever.
And loud and very self-confident CEO Carol Bartz is doing nothing to rectify that problem.
Maybe the Obama campaign mavens drilled their candidate hard on not appearing smug or too self-confident.
He is a self-confident fellow, although his sense of humour protects him from arrogance.
How can a man who had such a difficult background be so preternaturally self-confident?
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But this self-confident Euro-enthusiasm, bolstered by one of the fastest-growing EU economies, can easily stray into arrogance.
He is so striking physically tall and broad and so self-confident in his projection of himself that he transcends embarrassment.
Self-confident, protective and even heroic, under stress they can turn into ego-centric bullies who are secretive and fearful.
Rebellious young women apparently identified with the self-confident and boyish-looking winner, Li Yuchun.
Any skill-based team, built around real functional experts, requires strong, in-touch, self-confident leadership, and Amundsen exemplified these leadership attributes.
"The girls in particular come back way more self-confident and empowered, " he says.
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But India's anti-development bent long ago outlived its usefulness for what has become an increasingly self-sufficient and self-confident nation.
That was because these supremely self-confident money managers were more than fully invested.
Wary of the constraints imposed by the U.S., a self-confident China's geopolitical tentacles are spreading ever further across the globe.
They've managed to turn a self-confident and appealing candidate into one who is afraid of veering off her talking points.
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Partly it is a question of style: most congressmen tolerate, rather than warm to, Mr Zoellick's self-confident intellectualism and highfalutin ideas.
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Still, perhaps her performance is too strong, and there might be an argument for a less self-confident actress in the role.
It therefore takes a skilful and self-confident operator to pull it off.
If self-confident celebrities can confront each other and resolve their disagreements, so too can diverse individuals thrust together in a business environment.
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In a television debate on May 18th, the boyish-looking Mr McGuinty appeared hesitant beside the self-confident and smiling figure of Mr Harris.
Still, the self-confident fatuity and condescension of the entire show are offensive.
And Tyrion, you may not be singing such a self-confident tune with Renly to the left of you and Stannis to the right.
It's this kind of arrogance passing for self-confident optimism that gave us the economic mess we have had for the past five years.
He is self-confident, which is not unusual in a senior politician.
One aspect that is inherent in a self-confident individual is composure.
In dealing with it, we should show respect but also strength, the courage of our convictions, and the self-confident belief that we can achieve our aims.
Fred Thompson, making his first appearance in one of these multicandidate contests, smiled his self-confident smile and observed that he was actually a member of a union.
His book gives a chapter to each year, stitching together developments in the German-speaking world (his forte) as well as neurotic France, reactionary Russia and self-confident Britain.
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