Not exact matches
It's a
story of a less wasteful and more humane health care industry, more attuned to the
experiences of real people and
better able to learn from those
experiences, faster.
This particular
story gave me involuntary eyebrow twitches because a friend of mine had just endured a recent
experience with another
well - known car rental company.
The
best way to connect with your readers in a unique and meaningful way is to share
stories born from your
experiences.
Have you ever
experienced something cool and, in telling the
story, you get so tongue - tied that you end up saying something along the lines of, «
well, you just have to
experience it for yourself?»
Ideal candidates will come with ample resources for both finding such
stories online and out in the field, as
well as
experience working with image rights.
Had my friend decided instead just to post his
experience on Twitter, the
story might
well have gone viral.
Well, my own
experience tells the
story.
«An
experienced insurance professional has seen and heard the horror
stories and can advise new business owners on how to
best create an affordable and effective risk management strategy.»
The marriage of ASX listed Azonto Petroleum to the unlisted Calima Energy is essentially a
story of money meets management
experience with the marriage consummated at one of the
best addresses in town, the Montney oil and gas play in Canada.
Besides being a pretty cool
story (and a helpful tip, if you're into wine), his
experience might provide you with some
good ideas in whatever industry your entrepreneurial brainstorming takes you.
«I look for a trajectory in background
stories,» he says, because that's a far
better indicator of focus, intelligence and
experience than what you can glean from a résumé.
Build - A-Bear is a
good example of a company that built its products around a
story - worthy
experience for customers, he adds.
You have to have a bunch of
experiences and be able to say, «Here's something that happened to me yesterday...» And if you can make people laugh by telling them what happened to you, then you are telling the
story well.
If you don't have any
experience that you want to cash in on but have a knack for writing, say, sci - fi
stories, then you can author and publish your novel on Amazon as
well.
In this
story, Bernard recounts the
experience of an elderly couple who bought a very expensive variable annuity through their bank (4 % annual fee; 7 % surrender charge) and «now question whether they were given financial advice that was truly in their
best interests.»
Having heard so many horror
stories, I realize how
good of a first time
experience I had.
It was one of the
best experiences of my life, and CNN even did a
story on us!
Drawing on his life
story, as
well as conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your
experience of what it means to be human.»
Michelle describes funny and poignant
stories she
experienced while one of the top female media professionals, as
well as from her work with influential female executives at companies including Google, Microsoft and Bank of America.
Infuse your own
experiences: It's called a
story for a
good reason.
If executed properly, and documented
well, your brand
experience will drive your consumers and the press to tell your
story better, and more authentically.
A
good product, an addictive user
experience, and a
good story.
Allowing buyers to participate in as
well as
experience a
story on a business stage that unfolds and marvels them each and every time.
But the
best way to see what we
experienced in the festival is to check out the bits of interactive media sprinkled throughout the
story.
This community has as its core a mystery to the human
experience, and a sense that
story and imagery can persuade at least as
well as logical, more strictly factual arguments.
You may have personal
experiences or have heard
stories where lending someone money has not worked out
well.
Religious faith seems such a distorter of
experience, such an encourager of illusion, that polytheistic paganism's admission of many divine
stories seems
better than monotheistic Christianity's insistence on a single
story.
I call this alchemy «narrative theology» because I'm usually just wanting to write what I think and
experience about God and the
best way I know how to do that is through
story - telling.
Traditional Buddhist
stories abound of meditators being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include patients who
experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma, as
well as nerve pain and similar physical impacts.
The way I see it, a person writes a book for one two reasons: 1) She has a message that she cares about and the
best way to spread that message is through a book, or 2) She feels compelled to write so she shares whatever
story /
experience / message most inspires her at the time.
From my personal
experience of loss as
well as from my work as a counselor, my hope for women who've suffered through miscarriage, infertility, or other forms of loss is that we will see our
stories accurately rather than through a cloud by condemnation.
According to Lewis, a
good story (and authentic play
experiences more generally) has a mythic quality:
We all love a
good story because of the basic narrative quality of human
experience 22a.
The imitation theory of the truth of art has at least this on its side: in a sense a
good story, a true
story, is «true to» the structure of human
experience.
But, in my
experience, sometimes the
best way to keep communication healthy and open is to go to bed angry and then talk about it the next morning when you've had enough sleep to know that leaving the milk out in the car probably wasn't a veiled act of aggression meant to symbolize every problem in the relationship, but rather just the sort of mistake anyone would make while distracted by a fascinating
story on NPR.
From the novelist as
well as from the
stories in Scripture the theologian should take courage to concentrate on the
experience of coming to belief, not on the «beliefs» themselves (the sedimentation of
experiences of coming to belief).
Lasting about as long as a church service, a
good movie transports you to another realm where art of
story and the magic of special effects allows you to
experience an alternate reality that can help provide perspective or inspiration once you return to the real world.
Whether advocating giving oneself over to the ecstatic and wonderful, or telling one's
story, or doing what feels
good as «body - minds,» Keen's prescriptive therapy is broadly centered in the
experience of play.
Experienced speakers know that there is no
better way to make a point than to use an apt illustration, and a
good story that fits the point is the most effective kind of illustration.
«Through personal
stories, proven
experience and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church as
well as the seven core commitments required to bring it about.»
The writer takes the chaos of what he sees, and does his
best to weave a unified
story that is somehow reflective of that
experience.
My
experience has been that when I do my
best to tell that
story, for some reason people often respond by saying, «I believe too.
It is a tendency, however, which has worked at
best incompletely: for the cycle of
stories about Abraham is liberally sprinkled with a knowing realism that seems to speak out of Israel's own
experience under covenant.
He responded by relating the parable of the
Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life
experiences that bear this out,
experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the
Good Samaritan
story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....
Shalit tells us that in 1994 she rushed off to see the new movie version of Little Women, only to discover that our hidden cultural censors, fearful of anything that does not cohere with prevailing orthodoxy, had expunged one of «the
best lines» in the
story, when Marmee says: «To be loved by a
good man is the
best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful
experience.»
Narratives are filled with a variety of
experiences that need to be interpreted; this is true of Bible
stories as
well as personal testimonies.
He had prepared himself so
well b @ practicing the sound of the names and by getting to know their
stories, that he was able to create a sense of anticipation in the audience's
experience.
The kingdom of God would be
better with your voice, your hands, your
experiences, your
stories, your truth.
We tell a
story about the actuality of
experience to lift it into a context of meaning that speaks out of the reality of possibility as
well as actuality.
As he ponders the movement of his sermon to achieve the desired
experience, the minister would do
well to reflect on dramas seen,
stories read, conversations shared.