Moriah, about 45 miles from Saranac Lake through twisting mountain roads, houses a six-month shock program designed to build character and self-esteem.
Alec Baldwin's self-transformation into a character actor is one of the most sensible and honorable things that a fading movie star has ever done.
Then, in June 1939, when Superman became the first comic-book character to star in his own self-titled publication, his background was retrofitted to become somewhat closer to the story we know today, in which the toddler of steel was raised by a kindly elderly couple named Kent.
Rather, their early education leads to long-term improvements in "noncognitive" skills, boosting character traits such as self-control and conscientiousness.
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This character is a self-made billionaire, who truly believes that all he was doing was chasing after the American Dream.
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"I had my head in the clouds, was mad, neurotic and self-destructive, a very different character to the one you see today, " she said.
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The reports were encouraged by his character in his self-titled sitcom, a neurotic New York bachelor, always avoiding marriage after somehow finding a fatal flaw in his girlfriends.
At a time when other management gurus were obsessed with how to build a better organisation, Mr Covey argued that personal character, purpose and self-discipline were what mattered.
The self-taught tailor says he has a character or archetype in mind for each piece -- the hunter, the gentleman -- but he acknowledges that he's designing for himself.
According to Narvaez, research shows that responsive parenting can help develop infants' self-regulation and may influence conscience, impulse control, empathy, resilience and other character-related attributes.
Proud's character is said to be self-possessed and a little snobbish, with a low opinion of his mother's boyfriend, Minty.
But more important than paychecks, a great teacher instills in his students character and a passion for self-instruction.
His character heads are not quite self-portraits, but the faces reflect his feelings as simultaneously observed from outside and within.
An economy until recently dependent on peasant farming in harsh latitudes has shaped a stoic national character and an appetite for self-improvement.
For Bakan, a Canadian law professor, his eponymous subject is a self-interested, manipulative, amoral and irresponsible character which, were it a person, would be diagnosed as clinically insane.
Should the self-described maverick who believes in integrity and character have taken the honorable stance of resigning from the Senate to protest these hateful characters serving in the U.S. Senate?
Ultimately, the only way out of this looming crisis lies with the boomer gentry doing something totally out of character: getting past their self-interest and self-love for the good of the next generation.
They have powerful executive presence and trust their own abilities and character enough to be vulnerable, even self-deprecate.
But the movie's title is "Greenberg, " not "Marr, " and Mr. Stiller commands a kind of awe in his refusal to clothe the naked hostility of a character who suffers from the autoimmune disease of self-loathing. ("Life is wasted on people, " the hero says at one point.) An ardent arsonist, he has burned most of the bridges that once connected him to friends and a flourishing career.
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"Mariah's Challenge stands for integrity, character and honesty and living a life of simple self-respect, " said McCarthy, 52.
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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