I am not certain how to feel about the supposed theory of «self - sufficiency» and pulling yourself up
by your bootstraps when I feel that there are a number of barriers facing me that are beyond my control.
You've pulled yourself up
by your bootstraps at every opportunity and made a better life for yourself and your family.
You can't pull yourself up
by your bootstraps unless somebody recognizes the value of your work and has the deep pockets to reward that ability with a «living - wage» job that allows for advancement..
That not everyone can pick themselves up
by their bootstraps so to speak, and that those in need should get help, as long as they use that help to turn it around.
However, when he's murdered and she's forced to leave the country, Teresa pulls herself up
by her bootstraps even more, eventually becoming the leader of her own drug empire.
... is typical of the ambitious former physics teacher who emigrated from Haiti as a boy, used the U.S. education system to drag himself up
by the bootstraps from housing project poverty, then applied the same zeal to reforming the system that helped him, say friends and enemies alike in this upstate New York city of 210,000.
The ever inventive Baron does pull himself and his horse out of a swamp by his own hair, but
never by a bootstrap.
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published by Bootstrap Press.
Lines 30 - 34 on page 7 - 49 of the leaked SOD make clear that the -0.73 W / m ^ 2 estimate (
derived by bootstrap - processing the satellite - based estimates) is for AFari + aci - that is for Adjusted foring, including both direct and all indirect effects.
I got picked along with somebody for northern California, they split California in two, and that agreement, that business relationship, was really the foundation for me being able to pull myself up
by the bootstraps again.
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They both started small, having pulled themselves up
by their bootstraps before landing in the upper echelon of the Fortune 500 list.
So here are some tips on how to pull yourself up
by your bootstraps when you need to, and become the person that you know you have the power to be — here are 20 things that happy people do every single day.
You've pulled yourself up
by your bootstraps at every opportunity and made a better life for yourself and your family.
Rockwell's Freedom from Want, depicting a white American family gathered around their dinner table as they are served turkey, is accompanied by Rasheed's print that reads: «PURCHASE THE PROPER BOOTS WITH WHICH TO PULL YOURSELF
UP BY THE BOOTSTRAPS.»
After all, this is the very culture that turned the chestnut «pick yourself up
by your bootstraps» into a much - celebrated verb.
In other words, like the startups they are trying to support, cities like St. Louis (and Kansas City, Columbus, Pittsburgh, and pretty much every community in the middle) must pull themselves up
by their bootstraps.
Synopsis: Kane raised himself up
by his bootstraps, beginning his entrepreneurial career by taking control of a small - town newspaper and building a media empire.
Central to Hunter's tough love message is the idea that if you pick a creative freelance lifestyle, you have to «Pull yourself up
by the bootstraps.
The young are just as committed to hard work, delayed gratification, and pulling themselves up
by their bootstraps (a suite of characteristics the research team groups under the term «Protestant Work Ethic») as their elders.
«It was not just that they were taking the same job and feeling better about it, pulling themselves up
by their bootstraps and whistling.
Since then any number of corporations have lifted
themselves by their bootstraps out of the same primordial ooze.
Amazon building its second HQ in Pittsburgh means benefiting from the city's dedication to innovation as a means of pulling itself up
by its bootstraps.
If people can pull themselves up
by their bootstraps, then why do we need all these programs?
Maybe you feel it's because you didn't invent a cutting - edge product like Facebook or a SpaceX rocket, or perhaps you haven't had to «pull yourself up
by your bootstraps,» as many in the tech sector have.
The term is derived from the phrase, «Pulling yourself up
by the bootstraps.»
It is certainly enough to make you severely question and doubt on a consistent basis whether or not you are wasting your time with all of this and would life not be better spent trying to better yourself, believe in nothing, and pull yourself up
by your bootstraps and carve out your kingdom while you're alive.
I didn't need to pull myself up
by my bootstraps.
It is entirely a myth that working hard will allow you to pick yourself up
by your bootstraps.
@ * facepalm * says: «It is entirely a myth that working hard will allow you to pick yourself up
by your bootstraps.
Lent is not about our abilities or sheer will and motivation to pull ourselves up
by our bootstraps and be perfect image - bearers.
Then, just as they start stuttering and stammering through some half - @ $ $ attempt to pretend they understand their own bss - ackward behavior, ask them why anyone who believes in SELF - RELIANCE and pulling yourself up
by your bootstraps would worship anyone or anything... AT ALL.
Pro-Life (tm) has historically only applied to the pre-born; once they're born, the little 47 % Moochers (tm) need to pull themselves up
by their bootstraps or simply starve to death.
If its all about self help and lifting one's self up
by their bootstraps, then what do I need Jesus or God for?
No sacrifice made by the people in penitence satisfies a holy God, nor can they pull themselves up
by the bootstraps to walk the way He would have them walk.
The gospel does not say «Pull yourself up
by your bootstraps.»
I can pull myself up
by my bootstraps, look challenge in the eye and choose to evolve through the hurt.
«This is not just a gripping story of one man's heroic attempt to pull an entire neighborhood's worth of children up
by their bootstraps.
Americans are proud of their heritage of «picking ourselves up
by our bootstraps.»
You may argue — plenty do these days — that people in these situations should simply pull themselves up
by the bootstraps.