The irony is that the best way to protect yourself in public speaking is to give up any thought of self-protection at all.
So Mr Saker thought a photograph of a self-portrait would do just as well.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, who died in 1669 aged 63, is widely regarded as one of the most prolific self portraitists, thought to have painted 40-50 pictures of himself in oils and used himself as a model in 32 etchings and seven drawings.
As Kansas inched back late in the game, coach Bill Self said he thought of the 2008 final, when the Jayhawks charged back from a nine-point deficit in little more than two minutes to snatch a championship.
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Computer people, many of whom have usurped bankers as self-regarding Masters of the Universe, thought that the cable business would accept Microsoft's offer to take over the central nervous system of its infrastructure with due gratitude.
History, along with basic economic logic tell us that emotion, rather than rational thought, is driving this latest bout of low economic self-esteem.
The short time between thought and execution of an idea encouraged sequential picture-taking and self-portraiture of all kinds.
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Like a lot of people I thought patient Web groups were merely chat boards and self-help news distribution.
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For the least educated group surveyed, a 23 percentage point gap existed between the proportion of respondents who said they would prefer self-employment and the fraction that thought self-employment within five years was possible.
Kennan thought that Americans were shallow, materialistic, and self-centered he had the attitude of a typical mid-century European and the more he saw of them the less fond of them he grew.
All professors experience the vagaries of school administrations, competitive or antipathetic colleagues, the inexplicable thought processes of grant committees, the threat of a career permanently derailed by strangers, and the occasional helicopter parent and self-entitled student.
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