Sentences with phrase «from becoming the person»

A keychain phone charger, like the one that Money writer Shawn M. Carter has from The inCharge, lets you juice up wherever you are — and keeps you from becoming the person constantly on the lookout for the closest outlet.

Something stands in their way, preventing them from becoming the person they want (no, need) to be.

Not exact matches

«Younger people who view their future as extensive gain more happiness from extraordinary experiences,» the researchers concluded, while as people age, it is more ordinary experiences that become associated with happiness.

Research from Harvard Business School's assistant professor and Hellman Faculty Fellow Alison Wood Brooks found that people who ask questions become better managers and land better jobs.

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

Since becoming a teacher, I have heard many false assumptions from people outside of the field of education.

As CNBC reports, the outdoorsy town of Bend, Oregon, located a 1o - hour drive from San Francisco, is now becoming a commuter town for a select few people.

In early 2004, as American house prices roared higher and there came dire warnings from some quarters about the existence of a bubble — accompanied, of course, by strident denials from banks, most economists and the mortgage and real estate industries — Ben Bernanke (then still a governor before he became Fed chairman) addressed the problem of what to tell the American people.

«We still don't believe the virus will become widespread in Texas, but there could be more cases, so people need to protect themselves from mosquito bites, especially in parts of the state that stay relatively warm in the fall and winter.»

Most people know Barbara from watching her on ABC's Shark Tank, which has become a smashing hit with millions of viewers of all ages tuning in each Friday night.

We become more than a faceless corporate entity with shelf space in major retail stores; and that can lead to longer relationships and brand loyalty from people who enjoy our products and what we offer.

To become a destination for innovative professionals, take a cue from some of the tech industry greats: Google, Apple and Facebook know the key to attracting the best people is creating a space where creativity is rewarded, collaboration is encouraged and mistakes are seen as learning opportunities rather than failures.

To pull it off, Catullo's team had to get over 180 permits to do the shoot, create a perimeter around the Acropolis that included over 400 security people, bring in their own TV truck and all key gear from the U.K., and become the first production granted permission to film at the Parthenon in almost 60 years.

Moving from New Orleans to Austin (considered a highly innovative city) can increase a person's chances of becoming an inventor by up to 50 percent.

Tech hubs like Silicon Valley and East London's Tech City are attracting people from around the world — individuals who are on their way to becoming tech - startup entrepreneurs.

Campaign Contacts with Foreign Persons When it became apparent that my father - in - law was going to be the Republican nominee for President, as normally happens, a number of officials from foreign countries attempted to reach out to the campaign.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

The fires you have to put out are not an excuse for becoming detached from your people, and you can not obtain honest feedback through the filters and biases of direct supports.

«But in an economy that revolves around mobility and flexibility, a house that can't be sold becomes an economic trap,» preventing people from moving to where the jobs are.

But as software to run these chips becomes easier to program thanks to startups such as BitFusion and the chips themselves require less of a performance hit thanks to companies such as Flex Logic (which recently raised $ 7.8 million from Eclipse Ventures), more people can afford to use them.

Since then, Cirque has become a major player in artistic entertainment and now employs more than 4,000 people from over 40 different countries.

Even though only about 6 percent of Chinese people have a passport, China has become the world's largest outbound tourist market, with more than 135 million departures a year — and Angkor Wat is an easy two - or three - hour flight from many cities in China.

The series has broken a number of network records and its season - four premiere became the most watched nonfiction episode on cable ever with 11.8 million people turning in (half of those viewers came from the advertiser - loving 25 - to 54 - year - old demographic).

«Giving referrals is the heart - blood of the adviser business, and it is often the referral from a person you did not expect who becomes a top client,» said Mark S. Germain, CFP, founder and CEO of Beacon Wealth Management.

«Most people live solo or away from families, so knowing how to cook becomes critical to maintain a balanced and healthy lifestyle,» writes engineer Gurvinder Arora.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has become a blunt tool that unscrupulous people use to demand the removal of material that's unflattering to them — including from our site, Retraction Watch.

In 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space when, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, he flew on the space shuttle Discovery.

That's when I took what I knew from becoming a world - class athlete and started over — my quest to learn about business, marketing and adding value to influential people (even when I thought I had no value to give) began.

When he hits the mark, Bezos, who started selling books from his garage 22 years ago, becomes the first man to bump Gates from his perch in seven years and is only the sixth man to hold the «richest person» title in the past 30 years, according to Forbes.

There were committees that scrutinized everything, from whether the windows would open, to where the white boards would go, to the type of furniture involved, including the option of getting standing desks... I became very interested in how all of this would impact how people interact with one another at work.

We've also observed that people become frustrated when they are passed from one salesperson to another.

Think of customers as friends you hope to influence by remembering the following wisdom from Dale Carnegie: «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

Still, passengers and regulators would have to become comfortable with the idea of nobody sitting in the cockpit, which would be a dramatic change from the current rules for much of the world, which require at least two people in the cockpit at all times.

It doesn't look like Germans are turning against the idea of hosting people fleeing from conflicts, but the issue is suddenly becoming a political priority.

Emma Angel, the fancy dress company's director, told Business Insider that people have become more inventive with their costumes in a bid to stand out from the crowds.

After performing the same happiness - inducing activities, the people who signed up for the happiness study — the group Lyubomirsky saw as more «motivated» to become happier — gained more from the study than those who signed up for the other exercise.

It's true that people learn their basic values (honesty, integrity) from their parents and other childhood role - models, long before they become employees.

The usual process occurs from there: more people see them, more people get them, word of mouth spreads, and my morning bus ride becomes more amusing.

I know people at Nike's ad agencies who are witnessing firsthand how much of their budget is going toward social and away from traditional media, because it's more measurable, controllable, and has a better chance to become viral than anything in a print ad.

Along the way, I have become increasingly aware of the mistakes other people make when they take a break from their companies.

People speaking has become one of the most critical and marketable skills for professionals of all kinds, from CEOs to authors and entrepreneurs.

By doing this, the 43 - year - old from Austria became the first person to break the speed of sound wearing only a high - pressure suit.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, is just a few billion dollars away from dethroning Bill Gates to become the world's richest person.

That's a way to draw people away from what can become a very solitary workday,» Lorton adds.

«Businesses are diversifying from traditional corporate models, and spontaneity is becoming more valued,» says Estelle Tang, a culture editor at Elle, where (no surprise) people tend to notice one another's clothes.

For instance, HSBC gave the Chinese yuan 4/10 for aggressiveness in 2013, down from 6/10 a year ago, as the People's Bank of China becomes increasingly «hands off» and moves the yuan towards convertibility.

On May 18, 2017, I became the first person in my family to graduate from college!

She might be the person who saves your «culture» from becoming a homogenous echo chamber destined for irrelevance.

The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»

Sampling has also become less random because many research companies get respondents from panels — lists of people who have agreed to participate in surveys.