Sentences with phrase «fail at being a successful»

There are all kinds of ways you could buy or control these gems, different techniques could be applied to facilitate transactions, but unless you understand the product you'll fail at being a successful dealer because you won't understand why they are valuable or why there is a demand or why the market acts as it does.

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All of them failed at one point, but none would have been successful if they hadn't pushed themselves.

Fonstad said most VC money is still directed at nascent companies, or successful ones that are scaling up; not enough is being pledged to help companies cross the «chasm» in which so many startups fail, which is one of the ills Aspect is hoping to address.

Successful auctions are not guarantee a successful auction; auctions can fail and, in the event of a failed auction, existing investorsmay not sell, but instead may continue to hold all or part of their ARS at the maximum rate, as described in the offering Successful auctions are not guarantee a successful auction; auctions can fail and, in the event of a failed auction, existing investorsmay not sell, but instead may continue to hold all or part of their ARS at the maximum rate, as described in the offering successful auction; auctions can fail and, in the event of a failed auction, existing investorsmay not sell, but instead may continue to hold all or part of their ARS at the maximum rate, as described in the offering documents.

Then there are all the baking materials for developing and testing recipes (most of which fail at least twice before they succeed, after which I have to repeat the recipe at least once to ensure that it is a truly successful recipe).

Healso seems to have convinced himself that he came back to Chelsea because he had been supremely successful and done everything with Inter Milan and Real Madrid, whereas I seem to recall him being pushed out of Madrid because he failed to stop the dominance of Barcelona, failed to bring them the 10th European cup and fell out with the Spanish media and half of the players and staff at his own club.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Having failed to win a major honour at this level, Messi will now hope this can be the start of a successful summer in Russia next year.

Whilst it can be a useful exercise to use pre-season to experiment with formations and tactics this should be reserved for the latter stages of a game once substitutions are made.Crucially Arsenal failed to use game time to acclimatise the players who are likely to start the Season to one another and to continue to develop a team philosophy which had proven so successful in a crucial game at the end of last Season.Reverting to type will only have one end product and it won't go down well with the Arsenal faithful.

Why he wouldn't: Spain's most recent attempt to promote a coach from within the national team set - up was far from successful with Iñaki Sáez, a successful coach with the national youth teams, failing miserably when put in charge of the senior side at Euro 2004.

Any time a mom fails at something and then sees another mom succeeding, the successful mom is obviously trying to subconsciously make the other mom feel guilty.

I'm terrified of failing, of feeling overwhelmed, and not being successful at this.

Is it enough just to keep the Taliban at bay or is it of vital importance that Afghanistan is a successful state rather than a weak or failed statIs it enough just to keep the Taliban at bay or is it of vital importance that Afghanistan is a successful state rather than a weak or failed statis it of vital importance that Afghanistan is a successful state rather than a weak or failed statis a successful state rather than a weak or failed state?

The book is comprised of essays by five failed and five successful candidates who stood in English seats at last year's general election.

The government wants the most successful schools to help those that are failing, claiming such partnerships can produce «huge leaps» in results at the least successful schools.

«On balance, it's better to have a successful vote tomorrow at noon than a failed vote tonight,» he said.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State at the weekend described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a failed party which, according to him, was never successful...

The failings of New Labour: From a Blue Labour perspective, Jonathan Rutherford, Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings, writes very well on the failings of New Labour (see page 88 of this Soundings e-book, which is based on a series of seminars on Blue Labour, from 2010 - 11): «The early years of New Labour — the pluralism, the ethical socialism, the stakeholding economy, the idea of a covenant of trust and reciprocity with the people, the emotional language that reignited popular hope — created a powerful and successful story.

«Our statistical research shows that it is possible to be successful in terms of controlling the HIV epidemic and lowering child mortality, as has been the case in South Africa, but at the same time spectacularly failing to meet MDG4.

To be successful at dating, don't bring in past issues in your failed marriage or financial problems you have experienced.

Over the years other speed dating companies have tried and failed at holding fun, innovative and successful speed dating events never to be seen or heard again.

This is Martin Scorsese's most enjoyable film in years, and his first in 15 years that isn't a failed attempt at a masterpiece, but rather a fabulously successful attempt at a good movie.

Those signature bits of wordplay are all but guaranteed to show up in this third installment in the surprisingly successful comedy series about all - female a cappella group the Barden Bellas, who reunite for a USO tour hoping to recapture some of their former glory after failing in their initial attempts at post-college life.

The evidence suggests that the theory holds true: that the A-Plus program has been successful at motivating failing schools to improve their academic performance.

Rather, they were successful at raising the performance of students who were otherwise at risk of failing the state test without sacrificing the performance of lower - and higher - performing students.

As the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has noted, studies «that look back at factors that may have contributed to [a] school's success» are «particularly weak in determining causal validity for several reasons, including the fact that there is no way to be confident that the features common to successful turnaround schools are not also common to schools that fail.»

At the same time, Rotherham fails to remember that for all the preening of Beltway reformers, the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

From At Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do provides examples of places where schools should be failing but, in reality, they are helping students to achieve at high levelAt Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do provides examples of places where schools should be failing but, in reality, they are helping students to achieve at high levelat high levels.

The professional development continued and the program was successful, but without it the technology would have languished in the classroom and it could have been another failed attempt at innovation.

It had deliberately held steady the percentage of schools deemed to be failing at 5 % - the same as last year - so that the volatility of this year's results did not lead schools that were otherwise successful to be targeted for intervention.

Kittredge, CEO of Families for Excellent Schools, says that the Mayor has lost all credibility and «his time is up,» or at least his time for school improvement, and the surest path forward for students trapped in failing schools is a quick expansion of successful public charter schools.

An accountability system designed to have sustained impact must look at the factors that lead to success or are impeding the improvement efforts so that successful strategies may be further scaled and failing approaches may be modified or abandoned.

«Transparency» appears to be the new political controversy over California's Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to make changes at a chronically failing public school if they pull off a successful petition drive.

King countered that under No Child Left Behind, the implementation of supplement, not supplant was not successful in achieving the goal of ensuring federal funding was supplemental, and disadvantaged students at continuously low - performing schools failed to receive supportive services.

Within the U.S., how school performance is measured is with standardized test scores meant to indicate student achievement, so whether or not a school is considered to be successful or failing at educating students is based on how students at that school score.

- Jessica, Maine Book Momma Synopsis: Matisse Evans is determined to make her sophomore year of college successful after failing out of a prestigious art school and spending a horribly boring gap year at home.

My apologies to anyone who might be a bit fed up with the number of comments about my failed (or, at least, less than wholly successful) cover design.

Given the evidence we started with — that the vast majority of professional fund managers fail to outperform the index — individual investors really don't stand much chance at being more successful at stock - picking.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

The medical approach may be successful for several months or years, but will generally fail at some time.

And even if FWS is successful at removing cats from some locations, the IPMP / EA fails to take into account the risk of mesopredator release — the inevitable spike in non-native rodent populations — and its impact on the native species the IPMP / EA aims to protect.

Of the rougelike games I've played, I really felt like this was effective at allowing me to learn from every successful and failed run.

Modern Combat: Domination is a valiant attempt at trying to go head to head with shooter genre giants such as Call of Duty and Battlefield and is, to some extent, successful, but overall the title fails to bring anything new to the table, or build upon other titles.

If you fail at timing, The little TV - set won't be successful in its missions.

Of the 24,982 Lagrangian particles injected into the Southern Ocean at a depth of 1000 meters, 66 % were advected (in an average of 37.8 years) above a designated mixed layer depth boundary that the researchers deemed to be «a key boundary to separate failed and successful carbon sequestration.»

I advised you that even outside the Paris Accord, the US would be the most successful developed nation at reducing its CO2 emissions, and that Germany would fail to reduce its CO2 emissions.

We are now considering geo - engineering technologies in the context of a series of failed climate talks from Kyoto to Copenhagen to Lima, and prospects for the delegates at the current climate summit in Paris to reach a successful climate mitigation agreement are not hopeful.

Researchers at Washington State University have built computer models to allow us to look at how ancient humans responded to climate change — where they were successful and where they failed.

To be successful at making a change from the billable hour to alternative billing methods, you must be clear about the benefits to you and to your clients, and the consequences for failing to make the change.

To be successful at making a change from the billable hour to alternative fee arrangements, lawyers should be clear about the benefits to their clients and the consequences for failing to make the change.