Sentences with phrase «older mentors who»

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On one side of his brain, he could hear the voice of the uber - salesman who would never say die, personified by his old mentor Waks: «Get out there, man, and sell.

One of the most powerful aspects of the hyper - active and serendipitous environment at 1871 are the hundreds of planned, programmed and accidental interactions, intersections and connections that are constantly taking place between the 1,600 + members, mentors, sponsors, investors, partners, educators, government officials and just plain - old visitors and guests who spend time here at the fast - beating heart of Chicago's technology ecosystem.

«What I am looking for,» she said, «is an older, unofficial sounding board and mentor who can provide me support and authority, but who isn't directly in charge of my employment.»

So, while books, films and lectures could be used in confirmation class, they should only supplement the main task of putting young Christians in close proximity with older Christians — «mentors» who invite these younger Christians to look over their shoulders as they both attempt to live as Christians.

How emboldening and inspiring it is to know older adults who openly mentor millennials as St. Paul mentored Timothy, the young Church leader:

But because of this, Wesley strongly encourages other gay Christians to be honest about their experience and to find older, wiser Christians who can mentor them as they work through questions related to their sexuality.

My old mentor Rolfe Barnard preached a sermon called «The man who was known in hell».

According to Lee's older brother and mentor Bryan Lee, Marcus didn't even watch college basketball until a few seasons ago and he didn't know who Calipari was until he was recruited by him.

Which makes one wonder, why would the Cleveland Browns, who have won one measly game in two years decide to sign 33 year old Drew Stanton for over $ 4M in guaranteed money to be the backup for Tyrod Taylor and the mentor to Sam Darnold or Josh Allen?

And it's just as easy to categorize the 40 - year - old Broadwell, author of a glowing hagiography of Petraeus, «All In: The Education of General David Petraeus,» as a military groupie who was too ambitious in her attempts to join Washington's national security elite and saw Petraeus as her way in, a jealous, adulterous temptress who would stop at nothing to remove any woman who would get in between her and her lover (but obviously not his wife), or a devoted mom of two young boys and wife who made a mistake by falling in love with her mentor.

However, when we talk about fathers in early years settings, we also include father figures: step - fathers, older brothers, uncles, grandfathers, mentors and others who may be the «lead adult male» in a child's life.

Here's something that is critical, for anyone learning a new skill: Find a mentor — someone who has been using positive discipline for years, preferably someone who has older kids whose behavior is that you admire — and lean on that mentor day in and day out for questions, for modeling your parenting approach and for reassurance that your kids don't need to be spanked to turn out to be great kids.

My «mentor» mom / friend who I ask a lot of questions of has one little boy who is 4 years older than my little one and a daughter who is 9 months older.

Caputo noted his longtime friend and mentor Roger Stone and Credico are «old buddies,» but Caputo said he had never before met the drug law reform advocate / comedian, who is currently running in a longshot primary challenge against Sen. Chuck Schumer.

Harlem Assemblyman Keith Wright lost his bid to replace his retiring 86 - year - old mentor to State Senator Adriano Espaillat, who challenged Rangel in 2012 and 2014 but fell short.

Councilman Ulrich bestows pearls of wisdom upon Bob Turner who was quoted as calling him his «26 year old mentor.»

But Andrews says she believes younger women coming into academic medicine can still benefit from female mentors who are willing to demystify the unwritten rules of networking that form the «old boys» club.

However, the prize is bittersweet for all who knew the 68 - year - old scientist during his long career as a researcher and mentor at Rockefeller University in New York City.

A mentor is supposed to be not just a teacher but also an older guide to career, life, and whatever,» says Thomas von Foerster, a retired science publisher who is one among the many mentors at the Point Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that provides mentoring, scholarships, and leadership training for LGBT students in the humanities and sciences.

Men who engage in such relationships, many of whom are older and married, enjoy taking care of young women and assuming a mentor role in their lives, said Steven Pasternack, who launched Sugardaddie.com in 2002.

Here is an email from 50 - year old Julie, who has been working with one of my skilled Love Mentors and recently overcame a long - standing dead - end dating pattern of being a Hermit:

He enjoys his music - mad pals, including the duo that would become Daft Punk, an older mentor (Vincent Macaigne) who could have stepped out of a»70s Truffaut movie, and, of course, girls who like DJs.

As soon as you enter the newsroom (after an opening Vietnam battle scene that feels slightly perfunctory from the man who made Saving Private Ryan) you're hooked, assisted by Hanks who has a peerless ability to make his characters instantly feel like an old friend and mentor.

Between baking bread and eating baklava, she meets and mentors a ten - year - old girl who is determined to become the next golf sensation.

The 1989 Muay Thai action movie Kickboxer starred a young Jean - Claude Van Damme, who pops up in this rather cheesy remake in the old mentor role.

Aiding the girls as mentor is the Radners» old nemesis, Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron), who has found post-collegiate life less than fulfilling with his employment - hindering criminal record and now being asked to move out of the house where the new fiancé (John Early) of his best friend (Dave Franco) is about to move in.

After devoting two films to the bedevilment of the Lambert family — specifically, a spooky old hag that had attached itself to patriarch Josh (Patrick Wilson) from childhood — the «Insidious» series seemed poised to continue on as a series of «Ghostbusters» - style adventures involving the paranormal investigators Specs (Whannell) and Tucker (Angus Sampson) and their mentor Elise (Shaye), who returned to the series in spectral form after dying (at Josh's hands) in the first film.

WHAT: A young boy named Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher) finds an unlikely friend and mentor in his new neighbor, Vincent (Bill Murray), a cynical, hedonistic old man who agrees to babysit him after school (for a fee, of course) while the kid's recently divorced mother (Melissa McCarthy) struggles to make ends meet.

The boy and his mentor are a perfect match: the older man's appreciative eye is fuel for the vanity of the young stud - in - the - making, who asks in a pleading voice, «Hey, how was I?»

Hayden Christensen is a winning mix of sultry and sulky as the now older Anakin, while Ewan McGregor is finally beginning to relax as the mentor who understandably refuses to treat his moody pupil like a grown - up.

McQueen felt the old training method was better for him so he looked for Smokey, who was his mentor Doc's mentor.

He's a suicidal alcoholic who can't quite bring himself to end it all, mainly because he has people who depend on him: a light - sensitive albino mutant named Caliban (Stephen Merchant), and his old mentor, Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart).

When she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her nemesis, match and mentor in Alfie Stephenson (Tom Wilkinson), a grumpy, loveless, rich old man who lives next door and happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.

Mackenzie Davis plays the 23 - year - old title character, a hipster with the skills of a lactation expert and sleep coach who becomes, over the course of the film, Marlo's best friend and mentor, ultimately leading her on a path to reconnect — dangerously — with her lost youth.

In comics, the Ancient One is a 500 year old Tibetan warlock who acts as mentor to Doctor Strange.

The other stand - outs are: Farrell as Tommy, who isn't the cliché diva type but genuinely respects his mentor and really only wants to see him back in top form; and Ryan Bingham, a young 28 - year - old country songwriter who, along with T - Bone Burnett, composes «Crazy Heart's» music, including the great song «The Weary Kind.»

Who: Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Amber Heard What: An entry - level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself quickly rising up the ranks, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor.

The mentors are comparably one - dimensional: Queenan is a devout Catholic with sepia - toned photos of old - time cops hanging in his modest home, Costello's a depraved hedonist who flings handfuls of cocaine over his nude girlfriend.

There, he is encounters old mentor, club owner Bill (Ray Winstone) who reluctantly agrees to help him, just so long as he stays on the straight and narrow, and off the booze.

Bill Murray plays a grumpy old man who reluctantly mentors his neighbor's kid in St. Vincent.

Codenamed the Virtuous Mission, Snake's tactical outing is upended by The Boss, an old mentor and pseudo-mother figure, who has seemingly defected to Russia and granted the erratic Volgin with the Davy Crockett nuclear weapon.

I would have loved to have a mentor — somebody older than me who tried to show me the ropes — because I was more than happy to be the smart kid that was hiding in the shadows and failing quietly.

Among the school's 10 core values, a central theme is the importance of mutual trust and respect — between teachers and students, between peers, and between young students and the older students who act as mentors.

«I have five mentors, older students and educators, who supported me through the entire process.»

Once the bell rings, she heads to a high school to mentor a principal dealing with an older teacher who doesn't want to follow the new curriculum.

But McQueen's mojo appears to return, with the help of Cruz, who has her own demons to shake, and thanks to visits with his late mentor, Doc Holliday — a ’51 Hudson Hornet whose role in «CARS 3» is made possible by years - old outtakes of the late Paul Newman's gravelly tones — and Smokey, an old Hudson pickup meant to have been Doc's trainer.Except, race day comes.

In a simple, lyrical series of poems, Grimes speaks in the voice of a fatherless child in Harlem who finds a mentor in an older man.

And he is haunted by reminders of the two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his mentor and professor — a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism — and an angelic six - year - old mathematical genius who is heir to the leadership of a Hasidic sect.

Fourteen - year - old detention - center escapee Rick finds refuge in Utah's canyon country, where he meets condor preservationist Lon, who becomes both mentor and father figure to him.

Vollmar's heart - tugging, powerfully visualized view of the Depression unfolds through the eyes of a 13 - year - old white boy, who finds a friend and mentor in an old black tramp.