Sentences with phrase «good stories point»

About halfway through the game, your party from the previous game joins you, culminating with good story points.

The MSX games are also a great addition, since they can be difficult to come by in the US and they fill in some good story points.

Not exact matches

At best, your sales reps are going into their calls with gaps in the story; at worst, they're completely off point and exhausted before making a single call.

Even if they forget much of what you say, people often remember stories that best illustrate a point.

Contis was quick to point out that your business's name is a creative platform for telling a long - term story to the world, so it is worth spending some time and effort into finding the best fit.

However, Columbia University's Katherine W. Phillips and others mentioned in the HBR story on women directors point out that while diverse boards that are not properly managed may «create distrust and dissatisfaction,» homogeneous groups don't come to any better solutions.

Creating a company - wide network such as a Slack thread or a private Facebook page that makes it easy to share stories and industry updates is a good starting point.

«I think we're kind of past the point where anybody would look at it and be like: «Oh, well, that story's fantastic but I hate it because it's being sponsored by a brand,»» Spiers said.

One of the most well - established ways to hear from readers, the NYT public editor pointed out — although not the only one, by any means — is through comments on news stories.

Neuroeconomics professor Paul Zak explains: «Character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.»

Wired has called gamification an enemy of great support, and while dissenting opinions often point to cases like Microsoft and the increased productivity they saw when implementing gamification, the numbers don't tell the full story — a lower response time does not mean your team is doing a better job of taking care of customers.

In his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debate:

Finalists will be selected based on the best stories and their community's total Rally Points through three periods, like a hockey game:

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

For example, my experiments show that character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.

The March 21, 2016 story on bitcoin for beginners lists four key points about bitcoin: transactions are permanent; choose a good bitcoin wallet; virtual currencies are volatile; and understand the basics of the blockchain.

point being: Tolkien was writing myth... because he believed all good story telling pointed to the ultimate Story: the Gospel — which he regarded as the one True story telling pointed to the ultimate Story: the Gospel — which he regarded as the one True Story: the Gospel — which he regarded as the one True Myth.

As a person who has traveled well and studied religion, Judaism, Muslim and Christianity all worship the God of Abraham, but the story is not interpreted different but stops at different points.

@Chuckles «For my first point, I would like to ask, where exactly does the bible say at the beginning or end that it is all true and gives it's bonafides like a good non-fiction story should?

I distinctly remember the story of Jesus pointing at a leper and saying «Screw that guy, he should get a better job.»

For my first point, I would like to ask, where exactly does the bible say at the beginning or end that it is all true and gives it's bonafides like a good non-fiction story should?

The greatness and inviolability of a subject have never yet exempted those who endeavor to find expression for it from the effort of giving their very best from the artistic point of view; and to fail to fulfill this demand when a religious subject of such a sublime nature as the story of Our Lord is involved, is not merely an aesthetic sin.

When I pointed out to a friend that the story he had just shared on social media wasn't true, he replied, «well it might as well be.

Just admit that the flood is a story probably written a while after a severe local flood, and that the theological point is to credit God for the saving of life as well as the promise not to destroy again.

Experienced speakers know that there is no better way to make a point than to use an apt illustration, and a good story that fits the point is the most effective kind of illustration.

We can use these stories, as myth, to help us celebrate the good news of Christmas and to emphasize the point, «Hey!

But if they are good in themselves, and if by a «point» you mean some truth about the real world which one can take out of the story, I'm not sure that I agree.

Well Bob, let me try to be brief... the old testament is the history of the nascient people of Israel, and tells the story of the hammering process God used to mold them into His people... They frequently adopted the gods of pagans and idol worshippers, and the OT describes how God so wanted them to be His people... So many of the old testament prophecies actually point to a coming Messiah.

The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

no, I didn't say that's all there was — but much of what is left is not verifiable — some of it may very very well be true and some may be fiction; some may be a best attempt to retain truth where erroneous transmission kept the true story from being relayed forward; but how can it be verified at this point?

This remains a strong implication of the story of the quarrel between Lot (the father of the nations Moab and Ammon) and Abraham, and Lot's free choice of the land to the east and south of Canaan proper (13) The same motive partially underlies the repeated promise of the land to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the pointed denial of the claims of others, for example Ishmael (the Ishmaelites) and Esau (the Edomites) as well as Moab and Ammon.

The individual stories still speak at points with qualities of expression characteristic of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology of one sort or another, or by the love, simply, of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.

Aside from also starting to post more photos on my blog (which idea I see you gleaned from monitoring my brainwaves as well), Dean and I were just talking about this story yesterday and how the point is not doing vs. being, but never being distracted from being a disciple; which is really just being close to Jesus, doing what he does, listening to what he says and going with his agenda instead of ours.

My fourth point was that many times the best answer we can come up with is: «We don't know» and that there's then no point of going to old stories about magic for other answers.

We should be honest about the slight discrepancies that exist between some accounts that can not both be true (for example, the order of the 3 Temptations of Jesus), while pointing out that these discrepancies do not change the lessons of the story, which is: you defeat Satan by learning the Bible well enough to keep him from tricking you!

The story is also a good talking point for groups with children regarding v1rg1n1ty and where babies are from (not involving bees or birds).

So since this story makes the point that the best thing to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun, the media is treating it like it never happened.

The temptation, particularly for those of us who operate from a position of privilege, is to gravitate towards the good and ignore the very real and true cries of the oppressed and marginalized or even just - plain - different - from - us of our society, to retreat into the worlds of our own making and the brightly lit aisles of a shopping centre, and then point to the good stories as good enough for us.

I long to Love, I long to offer grace, particularly to those struggling under their own new Laws, I long to worship, I'd rather write a better story than a point - by - point defense, and I long to really see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

The story is told in terms of kings, servants and debts large and small, and as such it is an exemplary story, as is that of the Good Samaritan, except that it makes the point in reverse.

On this latter point various views were bound to develop, and these views, as well as the legendizing tendency, which is never absent from a growing tradition, were certain to affect the way in which the story of the resurrection was told.

it would be like a retelling of Cinderella to make a political / religious point, except that Cinderella isn't a religious story, so the parallel is not a good one.

Brigette, you missed the point of the quote... it was not about creating memories that sustain loved ones — that is the afterlife story of most religion — the point is to go ahead and live a good life because it is worth living... not because of fearing judgement of one deity or another.

His story about «the good Samaritan» illustrates His point.

It might be a better parallel if I retold a story from the Gospels and changed some names or details to make a point about something going on in today's world.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

This often shapes the conversation in a much better way, because it allows for a personal story someone can take ownership of — and that provides them with a much more genuine feeling than just arguing theological points.

Our first thought may be that here is simply a conventional way to say that at just this point we are beginning the gospel story that follows, that Mark's little book is itself «the good news.»

So I'd rather write a better and real story than a point - by - point defense, and I long to really see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

During the run - up to the papal visit, we all got pretty well inured (if we weren't already) to the way in which the secular Press will take a Catholic news item, sometimes quite small in itself, and then turn it into a major news story which entirely misses the point.