Sentences with phrase «be a bigger person by»

@TRH, you act as if you are the bigger person by saying Theist have the right to believe.

How does that square with the concept of teaching others to be a bigger person by forgiving as well as releasing someone from what they do not deserve?

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When a relationship hits a serious stage and couples get married or commit to each other in some big way, people are often too overcome with excitement or too overwhelmed by the prospect of spending forever with this person to have a deep discussion about where their priorities lie.

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

The book shows «how we could cut emissions by up to 50 percent without asking people to make big sacrifices,» Gates says, and he even claims it's a relatively light read.

«At Wazoku we are all about innovation and as a start - up we know that one of the biggest challenges faced by new businesses is getting seen and found by the right people.

The consumers are part of the big three credit bureau's estimate of 145.5 million people affected by the breach, a figure it marked up from an original September estimate of 143 million.

Hint: It's about the people, for the people, and by the people — and you can translate the big ideas to your much smaller company.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

The difference is that they have done it by connecting with other big brands, rather than people, in their area.

«In everyday interactions with significant others, people often assume that momentary distractions by their cell phones are not a big deal,» another researcher involved in the study, Meredith David, said.

Personality tests are a «convenient way to categorize people, but they're not the absolute truth,» says Natella, who puts test scores into context by comparing them with the average scores of his best reps.. The bigger test comes when he puts potential salespeople on the phones for two half days to call potential clients.

In fact, Musk's «biggest mistake» is made over and over again by countless people in leadership positions every day: not hiring or promoting the right knowledge workers with intangibles beyond talent and brain.

But Max is like many people in your organization who could have the next big idea by making waves.

That's because entrepreneurs must be independent while connecting with the right people, levelheaded while taking risks, and big - dreamers while being utterly realistic about their prospects — all of which are fueled by self - confidence.

«What we've had to do at Harry's is actually think out multiple years ahead and say, how big do we want to be, in 2018 and 2019 and 2020 and start buying equipment today so that it gets put in place and we can train people on it and we can have them up and running by the time we're that size.»

So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

«The long - term bet is that by enabling people to have good organic interactions with businesses, that will end up being a massive multiplier on the value of the monetization down the road, when we really work on that, and really focus on that in a bigger way,» Zuckerberg said.

«We think people are motivated by more than just money, and sometimes a promotion satisfies a person's quest not just to take home a bigger paycheck but to take on bigger challenges and be proud of more then the amount of money they make.

Almost any brand that gets acquired by a bigger brand, people just start saying, «Oh, they're going to screw it up.»

And remember: You're taking a big step, just by periodically asking your people if they're happy.

More than 90 % of wireless subscribers in Canada are locked up in contracts by the Big Three, and though people love to complain about their carrier, parting ways isn't so simple.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

The biggest problem with business plans is that they offer pages of blah, blah, blah about the wonderfulness of the entrepreneur and the whiz - bang product followed by a few measly paragraphs about how every person in China is going to be a customer.

You're not going to create something people really love by making a big list of Slack's features and simply checking those boxes.»

And even though Jim had just spent 36 days alone becoming the first person to cross the mountainous Ungava Peninsula in northern Quebec in winter (the peninsula itself has been crossed in a single season by canoe much further to the south)... we decided this was too big a challenge for us to miss out on.

If the person they collect a card from isn't C - suite, or employed by a top company or startup, it's like getting a journeyman right fielder... no big deal.

Being able to have a first - person account or by interacting with the world from your own perspective, you'll find the truth that's harder to obtain when you're focused only on big picture thinking and not also living the truths of the situation first hand.

According to research by Angela Duckworth, «grit» — the persistence driving people to keep going despite setbacks — is a bigger predictor of success than IQ.

Only 30 % of Americans think that what is good for business is good for society generally, and 65 % of Americans think that most of the world's biggest businesses have taken unethical actions like dodging taxes; that view is widely shared by people in the survey, which was conducted in September.

Subtle shifts in emphasis and focus can have a big effect on how you are perceived by the people you need to listen to you.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D — CA) opened by listing all the questions Zuckerberg avoided answering throughout the course of the hearing, including questions about Facebook tracking user activity after a person logs off, whether Facebook can track users across multiple devices and who is Facebook's biggest competition.

They feel like you're trying to make yourself into the big person on the top of the hill, and they're threatened by the possibility they don't have any power or authority.

Unlike the nationalism of more culturally monolithic nations that tends to exclude foreign - born citizens, in Canada it's immigrants like Abdul - Rahiim and Tura — people who live here by choice, not happenstance — who tend to be the biggest patriots.

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

People object to a system that they see as being dominated by big pharma, a system that intrusively asserts control over our lives, telling us what's wrong with us, and telling us what we must do in order to get better (as they choose to define «better»).

I think two of the biggest reasons are that computer science, as a major, has been dominated by men, and so the people coming out of CS programs have been male, and the venture - capital partnerships that have grown up since the»50s were almost exclusively male.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

He's also the winner of the inaugural Breakthrough Junior Challenge, funded in part by a grant from Zuckerberg, which asks young people between the ages of 13 and 18 to create short videos that communicate big ideas in life sciences, physics and math.

On the other hand, more than 300 people gave the device a shot at the company's booth, and by almost all accounts, it was a big hit and worked well for virtually everyone who tried it.

The big city with a small town vibe is known for its music scene, and for being home to the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and as well as the Whole Foods HQ, but where it really shines is in its culinary scene, which ranges from barbecue that people wait hours in line for to all kinds of tacos.

The company's overstated political influence was noted by the New York Times political reporter Ken Vogel, who tweeted on Monday that the company's «BIGGEST SECRET» was that it was «an overpriced service that delivered little value to the TRUMP campaign, & the other campaigns & PACs that retained it» and that most people hired it because it was seen as a «prerequisite» for receiving cash from the Mercer family.

It's true, people spend more time indoors, they tend to know their neighbors less, some of those traditional activities have been supplanted by talking to people on Facebook or email, playing video games and watching movies on our big screen TVs.

Indeed, I suggested Microsoft might kill the whole bad idea and refrain from releasing the device altogether, but sure enough the company soldiered on, only to see the Pro become a big flop, mainly because it delivered none of what people wanted in a tablet — lightness, low price and good battery life, all of which were ironically established by Apple.

I am a very big fan of «How to Win Friends and Influence People», and also, «Awaken the Giant Within» by Tony Robbins.

By staying small, I had to thread the needle of finding some bigger, but not too big, checks from family offices and high net worth individuals — all people who don't put themselves out there and who aren't necessarily staffed to take a lot of inbound.

Attempts by Jews to move their people out of the urban centers and into colonies on the land have not been successful save in the neighborhood of big cities or in special circumstances.