Feeling refreshed from the time away, energized by the music, and fueled
by the good conversation with the people we met.
Not exact matches
Leaders who master the practice of
good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story
by searching
conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up
with the right solution.
Marin called the payout to him and other soccer officials a
well - deserved reward in an expletive - laden
conversation with marketing executives recorded
by the FBI in April 2014 in Miami Beach.
If managers are on
good enough terms
with employees for a casual
conversation over beers,
by all means informalize the process.
An analysis of Building 8's recent hires and job listings
by Business Insider, as
well as
conversations with people close to the company, shows an ambitious effort to create and sell millions of consumer hardware units, from a supply chain outpost in Hong Kong to a planned retail push and customer call center operation.
The
best conversations with someone you just met are initiated
by wanting to learn about the other person: what they do, how they do it, and why they do it.
While common football metaphors like «Don't sit on the sideline» can be useful, your
best bet is to focus
conversations around your excitement for the annual «Super Bowl Squares,» a betting pool operated
by the Super Bowl Square Manager, wherein an employee
with the least amount of football knowledge wins the most money.
Typically, a
conversation would start
with a CSR and, if the conclusion of the
conversation would be, «You need to use our API,» or, «You should probably add our SDK,» it'll then get informed
by a CSE as
well.
Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a
conversation — and when there's something being sold
by one person in the
conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence
with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.
In this live, recorded seminar you'll discover how you can be a
better connector
with men and women
by understanding the signals we send each other consciously and unconsciously through our
conversations and actions.
The
conversation about angel money is one I have all the time
with entrepreneurs so I thought it would make for a
good post on understanding angel investing — how they think, how you should think and how the first round venture capital firm will think
by the time the deal gets to them.
Based on
conversations with and reports
by legal and fiduciary experts, the product solution does not need to be the
BEST product in the universe, but needs to serve the client's interest without regard to your interest.
It starts
with a one - on - one Cash Flow
Conversation to learn about you and your business in order to create a comprehensive banking relationship that can help you achieve your business and personal goals —
by giving you the ability to effectively and continuously make the
best use of your cash flow.
Based on
conversation with physician experts, SunTrust said it believes LJPC - 501 hits on multiple characteristics of a successful drug, including effectiveness at improving MAP, a
good safety profile, easily titratable and positive mortality benefit as supported
by a statistically significant reduction in CV SOFA score.
Through
conversations with Kris Engskov, Traci York and our local leadership, I'm grateful for the focus on the safety and
well - being of the 5,600 partners still impacted
by the floods.
Your fit rate is calculated
by determining the number of meaningful
conversations (or,
better yet, the number of sales qualified leads - SQLs) that your salespeople need to talk
with to get to the point where you're able to make a proposal (or formal request to buy).
Going chapter
by chapter through Atlas Shrugged
with good Praxis friends, having late night
conversations that were at once insightful and hilarious.
Ross offers a defense of evangelical liturgical practices (perhaps
better described as «norms,» actually)
by putting Catholic scholar Aidan Kavanagh into
conversation with Anglican theologian John Webster.
I was continuously impressed
by the skill
with which Drew managed to call out all the b.s. that tends to surface in
well - meaning religious
conversations around race («stop being divisive; we should focus on unity!»
When, centuries later, Brother Lawrence described prayer as establishing oneself «in a sense of God's presence
by continually conversing
with Him,» (The Practice of the Presence of God the
Best Rule of a Holy Life, «First
Conversation.»)
Best Conversation - Starter: Donald Miller
with «Should the Church be led
by teachers and scholars?»
This considerable achievement was made possible
by Fior's
conversations with many people who knew Weil, as
well as extensive reading, and reliance on the earlier, excellent biography
by Simone Pétrement.
I have very
good memories of
conversations with passers
by.
Politics, Religion, and the Common
Good: Advancing a Distinctly American
Conversation About Religion in Our Shared Life
By Martin E. Marty
with Jonathan Moore.
By entering into conversation with texts from these traditions and considering perspectives largely forgotten by modernity, participants will discover truths that will enable them to live better lives and confidently propose alternatives to those in our age who wish to do likewis
By entering into
conversation with texts from these traditions and considering perspectives largely forgotten
by modernity, participants will discover truths that will enable them to live better lives and confidently propose alternatives to those in our age who wish to do likewis
by modernity, participants will discover truths that will enable them to live
better lives and confidently propose alternatives to those in our age who wish to do likewise.
On the other hand, an hour — even a day — can rush
by when one is lost in thought, and after an evening of
good conversation with friends, we look at the clock and say, «Where did the time go?»
Best Conversation - Starter (nominated
by BethanyKeeley - Jonker): Karen Swallow Prior at Her.Meneutics
with «Welcoming Doubt Into Christian Education» «Human history is a series of pendulum swings from one extreme to another.
Best conversation - starter (nominated
by Kristina Robb - Dover): Katie Roiphe
with «Disappearing Mothers»
I love to do treasure hunts
by asking the Lord to highlight someone for me to be on the lookout for that day, such as a description of clothing, or a name and then I ask God to give me a word of knowledge about that person (such as Jesus «example
with the woman at the
well), and then as the
conversation opens up, I can share the hope to which I «ve been called.
If you're going to start a
conversation with your spouse about money, it's a
good not to start
with any of the following phrases «I'm confused, it says here [looking at your bank account]; «Listen, I'm not mad, but»; «Don't get all offended
by what I'm about to say...»
Another great teacher, Jesus, did precisely this in
conversation with a Samaritan woman
by a
well.
4:3 - 42).101 Contrary to the accepted social norms Jesus freely engaged in
conversation with her casually
by a
well - side, something that amazed even his disciples (Jn.
seems that some people
with vision are quite aggressive if this
conversation's anything to go
by... not sure that's the
best of adverts for vision... it also seems that those who don't have vision are passionate, which i would have thought is a
good advert for no vision... these are just 2 observations.
And as I look at the current turmoil in Iraq and remember my
conversations with Muslim scholars, I have a
better understanding of the popular appeal of theocracy in Muslim - majority countries that have been ruled
by brutal and repressive secular rulers.
Best Conversation - Starter (nominated
by Kelly Youngblood) J.D. Greear at Christianity Today
with «Should We Stop Asking Jesus Into Our Hearts?»
In
conversations with liberal friends and family, when they have spoken of pre-sixties morality in terms of patriarchal suppression, cheering its eclipse
by new, more flexible mores, I find the
best response is not to defend the past but to question the present.
Better still: if any of them were,
by some sad quirk of eyesight, attracted to me, I'd not only find out, but open a
conversation with them on those terms.
These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is
by reading a moralist,
by education a generalist,
by training a physician and biochemist,
by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and
by choice a lover of serious
conversations, who thinks
best when sharing thoughts and speeches
with another.»
fred... yes fred, i have a
better way — but you sir, i have no need to keep this
conversation going, for you are terribly thick headed, and beyond brainwashed
by religion... you claim to believe the bible and what is has to say yet allow for me to be a di - ck to god without fear of recourse or any form of punishment from god — back in the day, i would have been smoted, now you losers claim that he will just torture me forever in hell as my punishment — this implies that god has learned
better ways to function as god — whoa, did anyone else just see what i said, god learned... thats rather un-godly, to learn, being he is all knowing - but your right, i am wrong... jesus christ where did i put my fuk you card, oh god - dam - nit... i must have thrown it away
with all the other garbage i don't use...
well too bad.
I've had the opportunity to honestly have this
conversation with a
good man who was
by title, my pastor.
An impression one gains from many teachers of these subjects as
well as from their students, is that often now a robust sense of Church is accompanied
by great willingness to enter into
conversation with secular society.
And no, Michael Bennett is not a «great human being», but he is trying to do a
good thing
by forcing people to have this
conversation with his provocative book title choice.
With the exception of Thompson, whose presence in the
conversation was driven somewhat
by the desires of his agent, you usually don't hear elite scorers who are also
good defenders called two - way players.
I handled (then 4 - year - old) Laurel's princess obsession
by not fueling it
with purchases (
well - meaning relatives took care of that) and having age - appropriate
conversations to diffuse the absurdity (e.g., princess bodies are not the norm, women don't need to be rescued
by men, stepmothers are wonderful people too).
Best of all, if you ask me, is the fact that the play area is supervised
by qualified staff, so parents can meet to enjoy a cup of coffee,
conversation with a friend, or just a few minutes of
well - deserved off - duty time.
book and I figure I'll get him a toddler - sized baby doll and we'll work on bottles and diapers and no, we don't pick up babies
by their eyeballs, honey, but beyond that, I'm still sensing he'll be in for a HUGE WORLD - ROCKING SURPRISE in a few months, and I might as
well be spending my time having deep telepathic
conversations about babies
with my dog.
Not that this has anything to do
with anything, but if your husband really seems preoccupied
by the «mama's boy» thing, you could casually slip into
conversation the factoid that Michael Jordan, the amazingly talented and unquestionably virile basketball superstar — arguably the
best athlete of last century — nursed until he was 3 years old.
NonProfit 2.0 delivers the
best of both worlds, offering great keynote sessions led
by Amanda Rose, Founder of Twestival, but in an unconference way
with no PowerPoint, 15 minute leads, and open questions and dialogue for fantastic
conversations.
When confronted
by a group of county sheriffs later about the
conversations with Bloomberg, Hickenlooper said, «
Well, lets, let's stick to the facts.
«I appreciate the vocal
conversation that this issue has generated, but the more I study this issue, the more clear it is to me that the carriage horses are
well - treated, in most cases
by carriage drivers who grew up
with horses on farms.»