Twice a week for 10 weeks I gear up to deliver confidence-surging lectures about talent, curiosity, flexibility and intelligent athleticism being the keys to a great writing career.
The lyrics of "Bravado" address the idea "of false confidence delivering real confidence" and of Lorde stepping into a line of work where, she said, "everyone would be watching me, and everyone would want to talk to me and confront me".
If we are going to reap the benefits that an open, innovative internet can deliver, we must have confidence that our engagement with it is secure.
I'm confident that in the future the core technological advances represented by bitcoin can enable far greater transparency and consumer protection than currently exists in the traditional financial system, but consumers today choose to work with people and businesses they have confidence will deliver as promised.
But her speech at the Republican National Convention, if delivered with confidence and ecstatically embraced in the hall, may prove to have been the easy part.
As part of the Dove self-esteem project, BEAT has been going into schools to deliver body confidence educational workshops in either teacher-training sessions or directly to pupils.
If you're cooking up something for Graham Norton or Jonathan Ross, you can expect to see your work delivered with confidence and an innate sense of timing, the good gags sold, the weak sold harder.
But this damaging about-face on claims delivered with confidence at the last bail hearing provided more evidence that two almost separate exercises are under way in Dr. Lee's case -- one highly personal, the other a policy debate on the nature of nuclear proliferation and nuclear security in the new millennium.
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More open immigration [is] one of the few stimulus packages Washington can deliver with confidence that it would help.
