Sentences with phrase «few experiences in life»

There are few experiences in life more poignant, defining, and difficult than losing a loved one.

I've had very few experiences in my life that were more humbling than knowing that I could only get heat in my house if I had enough snowblowers, computers and wedding rings to make up the value.

There were few experiences in my life that ever made me breathe that fast.

Few experiences in life can equal that of a night of live theater, sports, or even the circus.

Not exact matches

About 100 Boardlist candidates (some of whom already sit on not - for - profit, for - profit, or advisory boards, and the vast majority of whom live in the U.S.) were asked a number of questions about their experiences in business, and also about the fact that so few women serve on corporate boards.

In my four years of startup life, I've had the opportunity to experience a few hard - learned lessons that many entrepreneurs would do well to avoid.

Among the findings: Results from the federally - funded General Social Survey, considered the gold standard on social behavior and one of the few surveys that collects data about sexual orientation and workplace discrimination, show that 42 percent of LGB respondents had experienced employment discrimination at some point in their lives.

I read a few of the posts below, found their descriptions of the experience consistent with what I like in life, and went for it.

However, living in India and having worked as analytics provider for a brick and mortar and ecommerce giant based in US, I can tell few points from my experience: 1: Ecommerce in India: There is a lot of potential but challenges are equally crippling: a: Flipkart recently got devalued from 15 to 11 billion and has failed to post profits in its entire history of existence.

A few of us were doing things in our lives totally unrelated to writing, but those things involved life - and world - experience aplenty.

In my experience, those that achieve truly spectacular success usually share a few common characteristics about how they approach their work and their lives.

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

If you are not experiencing opposition in this life as a Christian than you need to take another look at the truth that the Bible and Christ taught... Jesus was a revolutionary figure who opposed the society and people that he lived with... He was not a person who was sugary sweet... and He didn't tell people what they wanted to hear... as Scripture says, the path to heaven is narrow and Few choose it... the road to hell is wide and most are following that path.

In our individual experience, it seems that when a few things fall apart, the whole apparatus of life threatens to collapse.

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

Part of the appeal of Whitehead's metaphysics lies in this, that through his conception of pulses of experience as the ultimate facts, he invests the passage of time with life and motion, with pathos, and with a majesty rivaled in no other philosophy of change, and in few eternalistic ones.

The flip side to this is that if a person can get out of the cult's «time control» schedule then after a few weeks, in our experience, they can begin to contrast «normal» life with the controlled cult environment and often this results in them leaving.

Their life would be morally discrete from the life of other men, and there is no saying, in the absence of positive experience of an authentic kind — for there are few active examples in our scriptures, and the Buddhistic examples are legendary, --(As where the future Buddha, incarnated as a hare, jumps into the fire to cook himself for a meal for a beggar — having previously shaken himself three times, so that none of the insects in his fur should perish with him.)

Experience doesn't always equate with age I have been blessed in my life to do quite a few things.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

Only a few times in a my 53 years of life have I had tears like what I have just experienced reading your post.

Here are the words of Jeeney Ray, (8) a spastic girl who is an orphan and who has had few experiences of intimacy in her life time.

When I have lived with these, experienced these and their suffering, as so few are willing to do, perhaps then... But, I don't believe I have that depth of caring or courage in me.

The events of that evening remind me of an experience in the last years of my father's life, a few months before he died, just after his century birthday.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

A few things come to mind: it's temporal, over against the promise of eternal life; it serves a purpose in personal sanctification and in the larger scheme — the big story that God is orchestrating; and, it's part of the fallen creation and points us to the missing wholeness and beauty we know is lacking in our experience.

The movie theatre is one of the few places left to escape reality, get away from the distractions of life and fully immerse yourself in the entertainment experience.

Life has constantly surprised me in the past few years; and I'm content to go with the flow and wait to see doors opening and new experiences forming, all over the world.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

What the now 24 - year old has experienced in the last few weeks is an occupational evolution - paraphrasing Mourinho's words - and for humans that may not have had a Pokemon experience in their lives, that may sound a bit weird.

No one can say for definite that having specific stresses or experiences in your life, or perhaps having certain personality traits, causes postpartum anxiety or depression but we do know that there are quite a few factors that can increase your risk.

My birth sessions cover your entire birthing experience, from active labor, through the first few hours of your new baby's life in a beautiful and real documentary style.

I live in Houston, and while we do experience a few bitter cold snaps here every winter, it's temperate enough that some (stubborn) kids are known to wear shorts year - round.

Few other experiences in life compare to the joy of birth.

Nights feeds did trail on into the second year for both dc, which I admit got wearing, but overall bf made my life and my mothering so very much easier and more pleasant in a whole host of ways, and was a lovely experience apart from those first few nightmare weeks.

Needless to say if the relationship ends it is life altering and often debilitating for the stay at home parent; once that happens few business will hire easily anyone without an experienced resume... unless you have some good connections... even with a degree or as in my case 3 degrees.

Once the full force of the PPD began to level itself in our lives in the first few weeks of being home with the baby, I felt confused and helpless and I was experiencing extreme anxiety.

I am not a counselor, and I am not a psychologist, but I wanted to tell you a few things I have learned about boundaries along the way in the experience of my life and I hope it will be helpful to you.

Fewer than 4 % of newborns spit up while sleeping in the supine position in the first 24 hours of life, and none required significant intervention or experienced serious sequelae.

Fewer than 4 % (3.4 %) of newborns spit up while sleeping in the supine position in the first 24 hours of life, but none required significant intervention or experienced adverse immediate outcomes.

An infant must learn to attach and suckle properly at the breast during the first few days of life to successfully establish breastfeeding.1,, 2 Early oral experiences that require sucking mechanics different from those required for breastfeeding are believed to contribute to the development of improper latch and subsequent breastfeeding failure — a problem described as nipple confusion.2 — 4 The avoidance of pacifiers was included as 1 of 10 steps for successful breastfeeding in the 1990 Innocenti Declaration on maternity services and breastfeeding, and many experts recommend that mothers who are breastfeeding avoid exposing their infants to artificial suckling experiences including use of pacifiers.5 — 7

Randomized studies showed that preterm children require a dietary supply of DHA in the first few weeks of life for optimal visual development, but it is unclear whether full - term children experience similar benefits from breast milk or DHA supplements.

In his words: «It didn't surprise me as it had become increasingly clear to me that only a few years of police experience would be enough to convince most people of the stark inequalities of life in Britain at the time.&raquIn his words: «It didn't surprise me as it had become increasingly clear to me that only a few years of police experience would be enough to convince most people of the stark inequalities of life in Britain at the time.&raquin Britain at the time.»

«The evils of racism, the evils of poverty, the inexcusable reality that our educational system fails our children, the concentration of wealth in the hands of too few, and the experience of deprivation in the lives of too many,» he said, alluding to the outbursts of racial violence following the deaths of black men at the hands of police in Ferguson, Mo. and Baltimore.

Individuals living in low - income homes experience greater chaos in their daily lives, including more moves, school changes, family turmoil, and crowded and noisy environments, and fewer structured routines and rituals.

Participants generally wanted to experience more pleasant emotions and fewer unpleasant emotions than they felt in their lives, but that wasn't always the case.

Although the AAAS Environmental Fellowship provides a rich first - hand experience of life in the policy world, there are a few things prospective applicants should keep in mind.

The researchers also found that those fish raised in a more complex social environment have a different brain structure to those who experienced fewer group members in early life.

With that in mind, below are a few different ways to work with your cravings and ultimately use them as a tool to experience more joy and peace in your life.

Though he returned to his old lifestyle in a few months, he was enriched with a few life lessons from that experience — most importantly about the mental issues that come with being overweight and the amount of effort and motivation one has to put into changing his old ways while having a brain addicted to sugar and other unhealthy stimuli.