Sentences with phrase «extraordinary people in»

And she loves the extraordinary people in it: her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colorful, unruly family; the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye.

Well, that was 2016 — a weird, troubling 12 months by anyone's standards, characterized by war, political catastrophe and so many extraordinary people in the cultural arena shuffling off this mortal coil that it sometimes felt like some sort of sick...

-LSB-...] think midwives are the most extraordinary people in the world; many are my heroes.

«I just think Franklin is an extraordinary person in the art world, and it's a real coup that we were able to convince him to live and work in our community,» Robins told the Herald.

Not exact matches

While the research has applications for marketers (highlight the ordinary to reach an older demographic and the extraordinary for younger people), it may also come as a comfort to bewildered folks in their mid-30s who are shocked by exactly how much they're enjoying routine experiences that would have bored their younger selves to tears (not to speak too much from personal experience).

Showing patience and expressing genuine confidence is an extraordinary way to let people know we truly believe in them.

«Gwen was an extraordinary and special person — one of the nation's leading lights in journalism, a gracious and inspiring colleague, and a warm and steadfast friend,» Sharon Rockefeller, president and CEO of the flagship public television station WETA in Washington, said in a letter to staffers.

«But they were wrong, because to be extraordinary is to be different than other people, and social interaction is grounded in similarities.»

According to new research from Harvard University and the University of Virginia, when people seek out extraordinary experiences like vacationing in exotic locales, those who had the experience enjoyed that their adventures were superior to ones their peers had, but during subsequent social interactions the adventurer ultimately felt excluded and worse off than they would have felt if they had an ordinary experience like everyone else.

There will always be a time when that doubt creeps in, and Fred provides me with the «proof that there are no insignificant or ordinary jobs when they are performed by significant or extraordinary people.»

The value of Schilt's work is in its use of the experiences of extraordinary people as a lens to reveal how the value of human capital — an individual's education, experience and abilities — is tied to gender perceptions.

GALLOWAY: By the way, people kind of laughed at that but it's one thing that fascinates me in your work that there is this extraordinary sensitivity.

This is possible by hiring people who share a deep passion for doing right by the customer, and who feel, «We're lucky to serve you, and we aspire to do it in an extraordinary way.»»

As Chapman states in his book, Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Treating Your People Like Family, his early focus as CEO was on financial success.

With that knowledge and with that insight, I think you can do extraordinary things, because you can go out and target your audiences, in a way that in the past, it would have just been whoever was passing you on the streets of Dubainow, you can target similar sets of people anywhere in the world, and I think that's a fantastic opportunity.

I built up an extraordinary network of people all over Canada and the United States, people who I'm still in touch with to this day.

Having a number is going to make such a dramatic change in so many of the decisions you make, habits you cultivate and people you associate with that the benefits will be so extraordinary, it won't matter if the original method of getting to a number had a technical flaw or two buried in it.

The embroiderers were known for being particularly extraordinary; Guo Pei has changed history because, during the Cultural Revolution, that skill was stopped, so people in the area lost the skill of embroidery; and now that she's brought it back, there's even a woman in her studio whose great grandmother was one of the embroiderers in the last dynasty.

«The lack of diversity is extraordinary,» says John Rogers, chief executive officer of Ariel Investments LLC, one of the largest black - owned money managers in the U.S. «People have not thought about this problem in creative ways.

We do this at a fraction of the cost, typically saving $ 100,000 per person, per year on each project in contrast the extraordinary costs of staff augmenting through an Engineering, Construction or IT Professional Services firm.

The promise of connecting coffee farmers to coffee drinkers is an extraordinary leap in transparency and accountability, and it speaks volumes about Starbucks commitment to creating a product that is good for people and for the planet.»

Among the women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmarin 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and WalmarIn lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.

Defy's founder, Catherine Hoke, a venture capitalist by trade, was visiting a prison in Texas when she recognized the similarities between Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and incarcerated people — relentless drive, resourcefulness, and extraordinary hustle.

With more than 10 years of in - the - field experience as a leadership coach & mentor, Denise has an extraordinary ability to help people discover their unique gifts and unlock...

She was named one of the «Coolest People in New York Tech» and an Extraordinary Woman in New York Tech by Business Insider in 2013, Marie Claire named her one of the «NewGuard», and Entrepreneur Magazine named her One of the Most 7 Powerful Women to Watch.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP)-- Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once - fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.

Book Review Sengupta's Recasting India envisions India's real growth drivers as the millions of small entrepreneurs in the country and the «extraordinary enterprise of ordinary people.»

On the spending side of the ledger, the priorities have been agriculture support (after two weak monsoons), rural development spending, infrastructure investments and a massive structural shift to direct benefit transfers deposited in the bank accounts of beneficiaries — made possible by the extraordinary biometric identity card program (Aadhaar) covering 950 million people, and the impressive financial inclusion initiative which has opened over 200 million new bank accounts for impoverished families.

We find, once people have bought their dream property in Turkey, they return time and time again to discover one extraordinary place after another and to enjoy the friendliness and hospitality the people of this lovely country offer.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

«Finkelstein found that the world's most extraordinary bosses bring out untapped talents in their people,» writes Inc. «How do they this?

I had read his story, but hearing it in person brought home the extraordinary courage demanded of him and his generation.

Her family described her as, «an ordinary Welsh woman who did an extraordinary deed in wanting people in the diocese of St Davids to benefit after her death.»

What she does do» in my opinion, correctly» is identify the extraordinary depth to which the Nazis went to exterminate a people.

Binx is interested, says Percy, in «this extraordinary phenomenon» which I am, too» the aura of reality around movie stars who are perhaps the most unreal of all people, in truth.»

Watching ordinary people sink into an ordinary plastic tub in an ordinary school gym in an ordinary small city in western Canada is one of the most extraordinary and sacred moments of my life.

This little novel tells of curious happenings in a small contemporary English village: ordinary animals and people, it seems, are suddenly turning into extraordinary creatures, into the invisible, supernatural ideas or forms of which our natural examples are but faint images.

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

Paul had one of the more extraordinary spiritual experiences a person could imagine, being «caught up in the third heaven,» but he never considered praying for such a thing, and after it happened he kept it to himself.

Instead, director Richard Tanne puts a spotlight on the lives of two extraordinary people who found themselves in an equally extraordinary life.

For future generations his person became as lost in his work as, for his contemporaries, Thomas himself was lost in his own abstractions, even in close social situations or in the midst of extraordinary historical conflicts.

Certain peoples — like certain individuals — are so constituted as to possess in extraordinary degree special gifts for cultural creativity.

His extraordinary image of the Jewish people is that of being the coal in God's fire.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?

A small expression of favor the laborer would be able to get through his head; it would be understood in the market - town by «the highly respected cultured public,» by all ballad - mongers, in short, by the 5 times 100,000 persons who dwelt in that market - town, which with respect to its population was even a very big city, but with respect to possessing understanding of and sense for the extraordinary was a very small market - town — but this thing of becoming the Emperor's son - in - law was far too much.

The real tragedy, however, is that he is finally the reason for the rejection of the whole people, and the reference is very plainly to him in the extraordinary saying which Hosea speaks to Israel: «I have given you kings (a king) in my anger, and I have taken them away (will take him away) in my wrath» (Hosea 13:11).

He had been and remained an extraordinary person, having sailed around the world numerous times in the Merchant Marine both before...

«Those who worked with him and especially his students will remember him as a person of extraordinary personal power which was expressed through his physical presence as well as through thought and word, but in so far as their personal relations with him are concerned, they will even more remember his tenderness.»

And you are talking, in the main, to people who proudly claim to accept nothing without proof (or maybe nothing extraordinary without extraordinary proof).