These mechanisms determine the achievement of sustainability in energy systems by sustaining actionability as a favorable expectation (trust, confidence), or an unfavorable expectation (lack of trust, distrust).
Dorfman wrote about expectations, confidence, preparation, visualization and relaxation, and Zinter realized he had been putting too much pressure on himself.
The rest is up to the lilies and the delphinium, the black-eyed Susans and the phlox, and I have every expectation and confidence that they will perform -- the definition, I suppose, of a perennial optimist.
That Kvitova – a player who had never broken into the top 40 and who only this year had been comprehensively beaten by Williams, 6-2, 6-1, in the second round of the Australian Open – had developed such expectation, such confidence on her first appearance on the big stage, was remarkable.
BAAS and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences issued a joint statement (in Portuguese) on the transition expressing their "strong expectation and confidence that the Ministry of Science and Technology will continue to enjoy the conditions that have allowed it to successfully carry out its mission".
These are the concepts of reliance, risk taking, expectation and confidence.
The Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire is a 10-item scale measuring both the individuals' expectation and confidence that they can perform a particular task.
Monetary policy also works by influencing the expectations and confidence of the general public.
The teachers, in turn, gave students higher expectations, and confidence that they could reach them.
And there is no understating the importance of expectations and confidence in this industry.
