Sentences with phrase «story is about something»

As expected the sequences of the war are breathtaking in their visceral horror, we simply have not seen the war like this before, but Spielberg does not dwell on these scenes, knowing his story is about something else.

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Melinda shared that while Bill may ask for more data to support an idea or story, she knows he always trusts her judgement about whether a problem is something the foundation should be aware of and working to solve.

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

If you're able to make some sort of profit doing something that you're passionate about, isn't that a success story?

So instead of talking about the weather or your commute, says Levy, «I always have a story of something I've been doing recently or a book that I've been reading.»

Instagram's launch of Stories has been credited by some as the trigger for a decline in Snapchat's users base, something that analysts warned about when Snapchat went public.

The story was about a mom who allegedly rescued her daughter from a potential kidnapping after waking in the middle of the night and feeling as if something was amiss.

I tell myself this is normal, you are just telling a story — and if you are telling a story about something you care about you'll do a good job.

«A friend of mine posted one of the stories on Facebook and she challenged her elected officials — Who's going to do something about it?»

There are many more fascinating stories out there about individuals who just started with something and got better as time and practice went on.

«Usually at Nike, especially for running, when we launch something... we want to have experiences that the influencers, the athletes, the everyday consumer can go and feel the story and what we are talking about,» said Freitas.

Each one says something empirical about the plight of a small business, but also tells a story about where the biggest pitfalls and challenges are, and how to avoid them.

In putting together a sidebar for that story about the most important FPS games in the history of the medium, I noticed a fascinating trend that seems to say something poignant about the times we're living in: brand has become a stronger selling feature than the artist, at least in games.

Story is about working with a group of people to achieve something bigger than yourself.

You might think it would have been easy to write about news makers and «the news of the day» but that was not always the case, especially when I was assigned a low interest, low visual, low emotional story about something like a county drainage proposal, rezoning considerations or tax easement issue.

«But then within the world, now let's start to have that more interesting discussion about how you can ground that story in something that is in reality.»

«Our customers are shopping not so much because of a desire to buy something as they are engaged in learning about what's new, meeting interesting people and hearing their stories,» he says.

Embarrassing stories about something dumb that you did is a perfect example.

The fact someone clicked on something doesn't really mean anything and advertising is increasingly about telling convincing stories that are worth the viewer's time.

You can always make up a good story about something you think you've learned, and no matter how bad things are going, you can always find at least one chart in Google Analytics that is up and to the right.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

The second time we looked at this, we saw the Findus twist bring new energy to the story and as the chart shows, Tesco's Buzz score — which tracks whether consumers have heard something positive or negative about a brand — went further down and is only showing the very first signs of recovery in the last week.

He told the audience that if they want to do something to help journalists, they should support blog TechDirt and its founder Mike Masnick, who is being sued by the same lawyer who led Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker over stories TechDirt published about Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email.

It's not that they're uncovering something that no one knows about, but these are personal stories about things that they actually experienced in the investment world.

Whether it's by giving tips on productivity or marketing, sharing experiences about challenges and startup stories, or something else that's relevant; we'll talk about anything that supports coworkers and coworking spaces!

Without one, you'll find that either you spend the whole day answering questions about the story so that a journalist has enough details to write something interesting, or it just won't get picked up because it's too much like hard work for an already busy reporter.

But Japan's fate has been something more like that story about boiling a frog.

The story of his previous startup, Mako Surgical, could be a blockbuster movie («RoboDoc») about a dreamer from Hollywood (Florida) living hand - to - mouth, overcoming all odds to build something the experts said was impossible: A futuristic robot that gave surgeons the real - time «feel» of flesh, sinew and bone.

It's always been important to balance an abstract idea as well as an actual story about something.

Somehow, Meloy and Co's crazy ambitions (the amorphous story is something about a maiden [sung by Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark] who falls in love with a shape - shifting forest being — and somewhere in there is an evil forest queen and a Rake, whatever that is) don't overshadow the incredible music they produce.

@ jack3 no you have the right to believe what ever you want, but we might mock you for believing in something that has talking snakes, a story about the world flooding and being able to fit all the animals on the planet on one boat, that believes in magic, that believes a person lived in the belly of a whale, and that people coexisted with dinosaurs all without any actual proof.

But the CNN story is about slamming Megyn Kelly for saying something that is factually correct.

It's about as plausible as a story about Zeus granting everlasting life to Athena or something.

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

There was something magical about Bradbury that went beyond his stories.

That this trajectory was unaffected by the victory of democracy and the free economy in the Revolution of 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Empire tells us something important about the post-Sixties phase of the story.

It is this naïveté that The Handmaid's Tale addresses with its appended «historical» commentary, challenging us to think about something otherwise difficult to see: the relationship between the crises of our civilization and its historic textual politics — the continuing story of who controls, legitimates, engenders and eliminates whom and what through the power of authoritative language, grounded in the Word.

Heck... has anything about this story yet reveal anything «shocking» or illegal beyond the butler being the one to really do something illegal?

But Julie, for what it's worth, my gut tells me that the two rumors you mentioned several comments ago probably stepped over the line UNLESS something about those other stories directly connects with and affects you and your story...

And so the story teaches us something about how to look for such things — if not necessarily to know when we have found them — and to know what kinds of secrets are worth pursuing.

Ever since her story was featured in Christianity Today nearly a year ago, Butterfield has become something of a celebrity within the conservative evangelical world, and every time I'm in conversation with someone about the potential dangers of «conversion therapy» (which seeks to change a person's sexual orientation through counseling and prayer), her name invariably comes up.

And rightfully so, for the purpose of these stories is not to tell us about angels and wisemen but to say something about Jesus of Nazareth.

One of the points of writing these stories is to tell something about what happens to these kids on the streets.

That is something teens can get excited about and sink their teeth into, but these details are available only in the Christian story as told in the Bible and creeds.

There's something incredibly vulnerable about this story from both sides: what Thomas needs and what Jesus is willing to give to be known.

The story involves spies, skullduggery, and Cold War domestic politics, but mostly it is about people who clearly understood the evil of communism and did something about it.

At this point, as a society, it would probably be more newsworthy to hear a story about someone who achieved something great without cheating... which is a depressing social commentary!

The dubious provenance of these stories doesn't make them wrong, but we should be wary when a reporter says that he heard someone read a memo written by someone else about something Trump once said.

Any way you slice it, Jesus did not have the typical Roman crucifixion, and there's plenty of reason to suspect something fishy about this story.

Even today, if you have ever heard, or if you have ever told a story, or a joke about heaven, I am sure the story included something about Peter.