Sentences with phrase «give up a life of»

I gave up the life of the conventional world, recognizing it to be no life, but a parody on life, which its superfluities simply keep us from comprehending,» — and Tolstoy thereupon embraced the life of the peasants, and has felt right and happy, or at least relatively so, ever since.

The next step of knowing whether or not you are ready for adoption is to ask yourself if you are willing to give up a life of independence and freedom.

They make sure to fulfill themselves first, and then find a partner to come along for their journey, not a new life that requires them to give up a life of their own.

He will have to wake up one day and realize that it's time to give up the life of being a kid in a candy store.

In it, you play as McMean, an ex-criminal who after giving up a life of crime with his posse, decides to see out his remaining days with his wife on a ranch.

As his wife, Charity, who gives up a life of ease to bet on his dreams, Michelle Williams has little to do in dialogue or song but beam and promise to follow him «into the great unknown» — the kind of role Emma Thompson neatly filleted as «Please don't go and do that brave thing.»

After giving up a life of crime, Wahlberg's character is forced to step back in for the sake of his little brother's safety.

«I just want the ones they're going to kill,» said Bartron, 57, who said he gave up a life of crime 20 years ago.

In it, you play as McMean, an ex-criminal who after giving up a life of crime with his posse, decides to see out his remaining days with his wife on a ranch.

«Jack» is a Washington, D.C., lawyer who hopes someday to be to the legal profession what Siddhartha was to Buddhism — one remembered for giving up a life of luxury to pursue the path of simplicity.

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Why we should give up the problematic and mythical pursuit of work - life balance and strive instead for peace and gratitude.

Over one - third of respondents (34.98 %) said they would «give up the right to vote in all elections for life» just to secure an extra 10 % in pay, while 9 % said they would «give up their child's or future child's right to vote» for the rest of their lives.

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to compete with Twitch and YouTube for video game streaming: The company is now offering select video gamers a chance to monetize their gameplay live streams on Facebook by giving their audience a way to tip them as part of a test of new monetization options.

Faith at work in the performance of The Nutcracker was like an offering up to God from committed people who gave their entire life to the art of dance.

Whenever life puts a challenge in your path and you feel like you're on the edge of giving up, you can lean on the SEALs» 40 percent rule to remind you that your apparent limits really aren't.

If you want to live the life you truly deserve, one of significance and fulfillment you must give up the need to be liked by everybody.

As Thomas Edison said, «Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.»

FIRE gives you more power to take charge of your life, and what you do with it is entirely up to you.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

France's AXA says it will spend $ 15.3 billion on buying New York - listed insurer XL Group and speed up its plans to spin off its American life insurance business — the IPO would give it $ 6 billion to help fund the XL purchase, with the rest coming in the form of cash and debt issuance.

There's no time for practice unless I'm willing to give up the rest of my life.

While everyone goes into it wanting to achieve greatness, most just simply aren't prepared to give up a majority chunk of his or her social and personal life.

Mr. Money Mustache, who wrote I Just Gave Up $ 4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech, sounds like he improved his life more keeping his freedom than he would have with the money.

A former serial entrepreneur who founded Aardvark and Perspecta among others, Horowitz gave up the Silicon Valley dream for a new life as a philosophy Ph.D., flipping the current wisdom on the relative value of technical and humanist knowledge on its head.

Name: Sarah Kauss Company: S'well Work - life balance philosophy: I've sort of given up on the idea of balance.

The Solo3 headphones offer up to 40 hours of battery life and just five minutes of charging time will give you three hours of playback.

Given how the state had spent time building up a new middle class,» [a] ny deviation from the mainstream, or irony, is seen as a threat to the credibility and legitimacy of the [Chinese Communist] Party in bringing [an] idealized way of life to reality,» Arsene told CNBC in an email.

Children who develop a high level of EQ carry these skills into adulthood, and this gives them a leg up in leadership and in life.

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

Nobody has a Gross Negotiation Product figure that totals up the aggregate costs of all this instruction and tip - giving, but as John Baker, editor of The Negotiator Magazine, observes, «There are a lot of people who are making their living that way.»

«It gives game developers new abilities to bring their creative visions to life by opening up the concept of gaming without boundaries.»

We entrust these institutions with the job of gaining expertise and information that we can not acquire, and we give them the power to sanction organizations and individuals who do not live up to this trust.

But very quickly it hits you: getting rid of the stress would mean giving up your business, possibly those pesky, stress - inducing kids, and all the other challenges that fry your nerves but give meaning and a sense of accomplishment to your life.

Thomas Edison once said, «Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.»

Not only do warmer waters cause bleaching of the living coral polyps that make up the mass, by leading them to expel the algae that give them color, but they have also led to an explosion in the numbers of a creature called the crown - of - thorns starfish.

Selling the company means giving up the independence of a company leader when it comes to hard business decisions and balancing work with family life.

In other words, the slack in one arena frees up the necessary extra energy to perform optimally in the arena of one's life that at any given moment needs the most attention and support.»

According to business and life coach Tony Robbins, 80 percent of people give up on their New Year's resolutions by the second week of February because they don't have a solid plan in place.

But we never gave up our souls in the pursuit of an easy life.

Author of the books Power - Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life and Final Fantasy V from Boss Fight Books.

Likely I'll end up paying off the remainder of my two mortgages, which will give me a pretty decent passive income from the single income property, and reduce my living costs

A common way to combat this is to live with parents longer, which is a sacrifice on both the part of the parents and young professional (parents giving up space / resources, young professional giving up freedom).

2) the stair counter doesn't work well — gets very confused when I get on an elevator (I live on the 30th floor of my building and sometimes just taking the elevator up in the morning after a run gives me my full 10 story step goal) 3) the heart rate monitor doesn't seem particularly accurate 4) the sleep tracker doesn't do a good job of figuring out when I go to sleep and when I wake up.

Many cities have been given the title of the «next Silicon Valley» yet none have been able to live up to the hype of «the only relevant market for venture capital ``.

All other compensation generally consists of Google's 401 (k) company match of up to $ 8,750, life insurance premiums paid by Google for the benefit of the named executive officer, personal use of company aircraft, and the market value of a holiday gift given to each employee, net of tax withholding, unless otherwise noted.

I've played several of them, and am always blown away by the numbers that appear on the screen: «Cash Show» consistently draws more than 100,000 players and gives away a total of $ 20,000 a day on weekends ($ 9,000 on weekdays); «The Q,» a hilariously ramshackle app out of Charleston, South Carolina, gets approximately 10,000 players going for as little as $ 100 per quiz; «Quiz Biz,» on the popular live - streaming app Live.me, gives away up to $ 50,000 — a pop — to tens of thousands of players.

More than 81 million subscribers pay Netflix $ 8 to $ 12 a month, and slowly but unmistakably these consumers are giving up cable for internet television: Over the last five years, cable has lost 6.7 million subscribers; more than a quarter of millennials (70 percent of whom use streaming services) report having never subscribed to cable in their lives.

Instead of giving up I decided to trim the fat and get my livings costs down as low as possible.

FreeAgent builds up real - time accounts for your company and gives you a live view of your business cash flow.

A life insurance policy's cash value is essentially the amount of money you would receive if you decided to give up the policy to the insurer, or surrender your coverage.