It helps to be self-motivated, curious and confident, and today, if you are fluent in using social media, that is a huge plus.

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They need to be confident and comfortable in self-analysis that they can identify their own weaknesses so they can assemble a team or partners that complement them.

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They taught as to be humble, strong, tender and self-confident.

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And Tyrion, you may not be singing such a self-confident tune with Renly to the left of you and Stannis to the right.

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Sobczak says in order to be a successful salesperson, one must be motivated and self-disciplined, confident and positive, a great interviewer and performer, and have an immense desire to learn.

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It remains to be seen whether, having achieved the status they coveted, these new universities will now feel self-confident enough to offer their students a distinctive teaching-based education, or whether they will aspire to become fully fledged research universities like their older rivals.

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The continent's leaders should by now be confident enough to see Mr Mugabe's harping on about African solidarity against imperialism for the self-serving smokescreen it is.

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