Sentences with phrase «anecdotes into»

It is illogical to turn an anecdote or series of anecdotes into a structural claim about a large system, as you have done.

Emin's practice is the result of an intense process of self - discovery in which she transforms her profound and personal anecdotes into universal narratives.

Later, he incorporated many of these anecdotes into stories.

Use one or more of these techniques to turn your anecdotes into full - fledged flash fictions.

Expand the Boundaries To turn journal entries and personal anecdotes into flash fiction, you must expand their boundaries.

When you work to transform basic anecdotes into memorable flash fiction, choose what's best and richest in order to compress and expand at the same time.

We share exclusive anecdotes into first date etiquette, and discovered interesting insights about the nitty - gritty of going on a date.

This book will make you think and it's hard to give a greater compliment than that... a deeply personal and sensitively constructed exposition of some of the most enduring philosophical questions... particularly fascinating... endearingly autobiographical style... Shaha has constructed a charmingly readable journey through some of the most enduring philosophical territory, weaving memories and thoughtful anecdotes into a powerful story of hope and truth.

I hope that in his next book, Turner does a little more of this, for it transforms his funny, sometimes bizarre anecdotes into more relatable, human stories and makes the reader feel more like a participant and less like an observer.

Ideation is the process of taking insights and analyses and crafting disparate anecdotes into a unified working document.

Please put that anecdote into the answer and tell us if it was a big bank.

As for Matlow J's oft - quoted dicta on the subject — he was making the same error of turning anecdote into statistic.

Not exact matches

Dennis Mortensen, the CEO and founder of the company behind Amy, X.ai., has some brilliant anecdotes of people being fooled into thinking Amy was a real PA..

No matter how much data you try to pull or how many anecdotes you take into consideration, one big hurdle remains to prevent us from making a final call between these two giants: the fact that every business client is different.

She'd been asked to write a speech for the CEO, and she wanted to know if I had any anecdotes to lift the speech into that exalted territory of earth - shattering and unforgettable — despite a circumstance not unique to her company, namely that the CEO was a bit of a bore.

There is no such thing as a one - size - fits - all anecdote that will turn a speech into a crowd - inspiring oration, and I had to tell her honestly that good speech writing is not a magic trick that entails cherry - picking anecdotes on the order of «Let's win one for the Gipper!»

Her advice is consistent and digestible, setting up listeners for happier lives with memorable anecdotes that can be distilled into mantras.

Using real - life anecdotes from busy professionals (check out the complete post for lots of interesting personal stories) who claim to «have it all,» Vanderkam asserts that with thoughtful use of checklists or intensive scheduling (one interviewee dutifully adds sleep and «unexpected pursuits» to his calendar), you really can shoehorn all your priorities into your allotted hours.

Brin then shared an anecdote: A few years ago, he underestimated and largely disregarded Google's research into artificial intelligence, believing that the concept of «neural nets» had been proven infeasible back in the 1990s.

To hammer home the point, she offered judges an anecdote about a client who was having trouble breaking into Walmart and Target but succeeded after using her services.

Many commentators turn to anecdotes from the 1980s or 1990s, when deficits led us into a corrosive spiral of debt.

I had turned my son's birth story into an anecdote and in so doing, I had lessened the power of our experience.

Countless repetitions have transformed what was once a parable with trap doors and mysterious and unexpected depths into an Aesop's fable, an anecdote with a prosaic moral tag.

Based on anecdotes about Britain and his own travels, Hitchens extrapolates the premise that countries surrounded by oceans, mountains, or deserts «tend not to be partitioned or carted off into captivity» and that «[no] great civilization has grown and endured» without those assets.

Her humor reveals itself in her anecdotes and punch lines, and in the turns of phrase she used to berate a friend's slip into Freudian terminology or answer a professor of English who asked what she considered unreasonable questions.

All in all the book provides an excellent read with some unique testimonies, anecdotes and insights into a wise and mature approach to human sexuality.

excellent read: life divides into AMAZING ENJOYABLE TIMES and APPALLING EXPERIENCES THAT WILL MAKE FUTURE AMAZING ANECDOTES!

Tess» extra anecdotes about life at the Mill make you feel like you're a part of the family and draw you into making her wonderful recipes, like this one here about their bees.

In 2013, The Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant Cookbook, written by Chef Sandy and Roy Finemore, let the public in on some secrets, with pages of insight into recipes, historic anecdotes, and all manner of expert information on buying, cooking, and serving fish and seafood.

In this Out of the Kitchen project, we're trying to map the intangible social network that makes up Andrew Tarlow's restaurant group, from the 15 - year - old Diner to this year's brand - new Achilles Heel and She Wolf Bakery, and as we strike out into the world of personal relationships and anecdotes about all these people and places, it occurred to us that these relationships occupy physical space, too.

«Thank you, sweet,» she says, and launches into a series of anecdotes about the things that have fallen down her false front during her four months in the show.

She gives you stories and anecdotes, and tells you about her preemie to give you an insight into her life and how she came to create this baby food making empire.

There's no obvious way to lead into this anecdote, so I'll just come out with it: a nurse on one of the postnatal wards in our local hospital told my wife that her (my wife's) nipples might be «too flat» to breastfeed.

A man called Ted Washington was partly responsible for that — a blind history teacher at my grammar school who taught the subject in a way that shot life into it replete with anecdotes and bizarre stories that kept us alive through the dates and the cold hard facts.

TN: You do manage to smuggle anecdotes from your career into the book, though in a very subtle way as brief little vignettes.

Having travelled an hour into London to meet my MP, they weren't that impressed with my half - remembered anecdotes about Westminster Hall...

And then Balls couldn't help tumbling headlong into «reflective historical mode», as he dubbed it, recalling anecdotes of Blair and Brown's mutual hostility.

It's basically repackaging the information from the previous response into a concise, compelling anecdote by removing needless details and including elements that will engage the interviewer's emotions and keep her or him listening.

Engaging anecdotes offer readers a glimpse into the problem - solving processes employed by engineers

The book is broken into sections that are intended to reflect different aspects of the invention process — problem finding, discovery, prophecy, connecting, and empowerment — and uses a series of anecdotes about inventors to illustrate these elements.

Begin with a hook (i.e., a personal anecdote that relates to your career path, a unique perspective on your academic career, or a statement that clearly summarizes your level of commitment) that will draw the reader into your story.

Whether it is American senior citizens driving into Canada in order to buy cheap prescription drugs or Canadians coming to the U.S. for surgery in order to avoid long wait times, the relative merits of these two nations» health care systems are often cast in terms of anecdotes.

But anecdotes about «Can School,» for those bent on building a better soda can, and a robotic «pig» that inspects Alaskan pipelines for rust offer fascinating insights into our endless battle with the dreaded four - letter word.

He pauses, recalling an incident that he isn't sure ought to be mentioned, then launches into an anecdote that sheds light on the difficulties of his position.

«We had all these anecdotes of postdocs sort of sauntering up to us and saying, «Hey, can we get into this whole union thing?»»

Anecdotes from Einstein's life slide seamlessly into accounts of his science; his triumphs appear not as isolated and inexplicable bursts of genius, but as carefully cultivated blooms from a hardworking — if unorthodox — gardener.

For all the difficulty that lies in tracking a toxin's path into and out of the body, the psychological gains of detoxing are expressed in anecdotes time and again.

From hilarious anecdotes to cringe - worthy moments, Smirnoff takes readers into the world of dating, while providing tons of laughs and sound advice.

Until further research into the effectiveness of these programs is conducted, success stories like Ackermans (and disappointments like McLarens) should be considered mere anecdotes.

The recipes, divided into sections based on ailment and target age group, are complemented by facts about herbs, how to grow them, and amusing anecdotes from the author's decades - long experience in herbalism.