Sentences with phrase «as a boring story»

What started out as a boring story might turn into a very meaningful conversation.

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As an Indian - born immigrant and tech entrepreneur myself, I have first - hand experience of some modes of thinking that, frankly, shocked me and rocked my belief in the Valley's story of its own openness.

Quill turns boring numbers into written communication that seems human and natural — a story — and Hammond says the results are guaranteed to adhere to the truth as defined by the data.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

Fewer immigrants means «more pie» for the U.S. - born, as the story goes.

As the oft - told story goes, Kamprad was a born entrepreneur, who, while growing up on a small Swedish farm, began selling matches off the back of his bicycle at the age of five.

[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?

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.

The people who you are talking to were born in the U.S just as you were, but how their ancestors got here is another story entirely.

It presents the story of the last days of Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., as she battles the advanced cancer that we know from the outset will take her life.

With great ingenuity we have managed, with the aid of much theory, to make that story boring as hell.

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

They made up the story about Jesus being born in Bethleham so he could be thought of as the Messiah.

The Bible has the same authority or bearing as much as the story of Santa and Alice in Wonderland etc..

If Jesus had been born as a Native American, He could have pointed to their legends and stories passed down from generation to generation and said, «These are the traditions that speak of me.»

Our choice of two — J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away — is therefore somewhat arbitrary, but not entirely, for so much has been written about such novels as The Brothers Karamazov and The Sound and the Fury, and the stories of Alyosha and Dilsey are such perfect illustrations of the parabolic way, that they are almost too easy.

She was dying, there were only days left, and we were coming to bear witness, to sit the vigil, to tell stories, to hold each other as much as hold her.

And rigorous realism requires going far beyond the usual generalities; for the natural man fools himself about fact, can not bear to look at a situation as it is, invents stories to cover up reality.

However, while highlighting the poor quality of life of children in stories such as Oliver Twist and Little Dorrit, authors at that time did not follow today's pro-abortion attitude — namely that it is cruel to let children be born into squalor.

First of all if the second coming ever happens is Jesus going to appear out of thin air or will Jesus be born from a virgin once again as he was in the bible story and grow up amongst us all invisible to non-believers and also wouldn't the Anti-Christ be born around the same time to play his part?

Long story short, we were forced to move from California to Mississippi, the place where I was born and left as a child and my parents retired too some years ago.

You know all of that, but you're still able to hear these as true stories, as metaphorical narratives using ancient archetypal language to make, among other affirmations, that Jesus is the light coming into the darkness, to make the affirmation that the Herods of this world constantly seek to destroy that which is born of God.

Post-critical naivete is the ability to hear the Christmas stories once again as true stories, even though you're pretty sure that Jesus was born in Nazareth and not in Bethlehem, even as you're pretty sure that the magic star and the wise men themselves come from an exegesis of Isaiah 60, rather than reflecting historical memory.

(The resources are available in The Curse of Cain for this reading, were Schwartz willing to apply to the Cain story the same analysis she brings to bear in her fine treatment of Joseph as undoing the work of Cain.)

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

But if God is so powerful to create my story before I was born, why wouldn't he have the power to change it as it goes along?

«Sorrows that are borne with the Spirit of God are no longer the burdens they might have been, as Hannah's story shows us»

I think the following story pf Jesus sums it up beautifully: As an Athiest, I can say he's a semi-fictional Jewish magician from the year 0... born in March or April, although we celebrate his birth in December, and killed in or around December, although we celebrate his death in March or April.

If we are to understand Jesus as a character in a story we can read, a story that may or may not have happened as it is told to us, bears more of a resemblance to John Galt than to Ayn Rand.

Some of them may bear a certain superficial resemblance to Jesus» story, but the particular manner of the parable sets it apart: the urgent eagerness, the lavish wastefulness of the stranger's compassion for the wounded man as he «went up to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, set him on his own beast, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.»

From the story of the Garden of Eden, where such natural hardships as earning one's livelihood by the sweat of one's brow, contending with weeds, bearing children with travail, and even wearing clothes, are interpreted as definite penalties for the sin of Adam and Eve, the Old Testament is haunted by the idea that adversity is retributive.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

As the name «Sons of Jacob» implies, this is an effort to simulate a story from the Bible in a drastically different context, and Genesis 30:1 - 3 is even recited as these women are forced to bear children on the knees of the men's wiveAs the name «Sons of Jacob» implies, this is an effort to simulate a story from the Bible in a drastically different context, and Genesis 30:1 - 3 is even recited as these women are forced to bear children on the knees of the men's wiveas these women are forced to bear children on the knees of the men's wives.

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

So in the story of Abraham, unless as some think the text at this point is corrupt, the patriarch's plea for a son is based on the fact that, if he lacks a child as heir, Eliezer of Damascus, a bondman born in Abraham's house and apparently an able manager of his estate, will inherit his property.

And yet though the Gospels are filled with stories of healing, and the church itself is born through an act of healing (Acts 3), most church people seem anxious to dismiss these stories, as though they embarrassed us.

Next is a brief account of the earthly career of Him from Whom Christianity is historically sprung and of the distinctive features which must be borne in mind as we seek to give the story of Christianity.

For Desbois, who was born in France after World War II but recalled the stories his grandfather told him as a French soldier detained in a prison camp in the Ukraine, the urgency is clear.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

A favorite and oft - repeated beginning is, «When Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born as --» Then the story is told, leading in the end to the moral which is usually in verse, this is the original canonical feature.

The full story of how the Dorest Naga was born is on their website, but as for the how hot the pepper was, Scoville heat testing in the USA revealed a range of heat levels, the highest at the time was 876,000, enough to make it significantly hotter than the Red Savina.

Babcock says same lineup tonight as it was Sunday... also, quite the story from Darren Helm regarding his new born... baby was...

Most football fans know the outline of his amazing story by now: Griffin was born with amniotic band syndrome, had his left hand amputated at age 4, and, despite that, grew into a two - time All - AAC selection and 2017 second - team All - America at a position where players use their hands as tools on just about every play.

We are still months away from the winter transfer window, so I wont bore you too often with the latest Arsenal transfer rumours, but just thought I'd give you a snippet of what is going around, as it is my duty to cover ALL Arsenal stories in the press!

To be allowed to start there Story down the divisions and blatantly insist they are actually a Liquified Dead Club.That do nt do Walking Away.Yep They Do Blatant Neck Brassing and They wont surrender a dead Clubs Tainted Titles that have absolutely no bearing on Sevco, s History as they re all of 6 years old.Only Team to Claim GoinFor55 in 6 Years.lolololol.....

Both men have fascinating stories in their lives already, as Conway was born in Jamaica, but adopted shortly after his fourth birthday.

In 2016, you can be a raving lunatic so long as the underlying story stems from being a protective «mama bear.»

Recommended steps in building your connection are as follows: Get the Picture The much more detailed version of the amazing story of a baby's development, complete with incredible «in utero» pictures, can be found in books like A Child Is Born by Lennart Nilsson.

Through stories (Tracey's + guest writers), accessible instructions (think of it as a friend telling you how to work your camera vs. said boring camera manual), and plenty of beautiful visual examples, Tracey helps you figure out how to use your camera, then find and capture the beauty in everyday moments.