Sentences with phrase «great life stories»

There are artists with great life stories — Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon.

The whole crew has great life stories — and degrees in engineering or science.

«But it's also a great life story.»

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It's a great story to read along to at any age, but I particularly loved seeing a group of friends in a vulnerable time in life (and a hyper - vulnerable station in life) come together and show each other the loyalty they couldn't get anywhere else.

Here are seven stories that turn the conventional wisdom, that life experience is what makes a great leader, on its head.

Used by our reporter to survey the life stories of hundreds of great American companies, this terrific handbook (his copy is now dog - eared and filled with dozens of bookmarks) is indispensable to the budding corporate historian.

«The basic elements of this story are repeated in the lives of all of the great Masters in history: a youthful passion or predilection, a chance encounter that allows them to discover how to apply it, an apprenticeship in which they come alive with energy and focus.

In fact, if nothing else, you could say that the story of Andy Grove — a busboy who fled a life lived under Fascists, Nazis, and Communists to get an education at an institution free to all, including refugees, then taking that knowledge and using it to help invent an entire industry — illustrates exactly what makes America great.

He's been with Nike (nke) so long, it's one of the great brand stories of our life.

Want an illustration of how a keenly observed and deeply felt life experience results in a great story?

Author: A Life Well Played: My Stories, 2106; Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course, 2004; Playing by the Rules: All the Rules of the Game, Complete with Memorable Rulings From Golf's Rich History, 2002; A Golfer's Life (with James Dodson), 1999; 495 Golf Lessons, 1973; Play Great Golf, 1987; Arnold Palmer's Complete Book Of Putting (with Peter Dobereiner), 1986; Arnold Palmer's Best 54 Golf Holes (with Bob Drum), 1977; Go For Broke: My Philosophy of Winning Golf (with William Barry Furlong), 1973; Situation Golf (with Jesus Gutierrez), 1970; My Game and Yours, 1963

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

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Like the great entrepreneurs who came before him, Elon Musk's life story reads like myth.

What makes a negative story negative may just be that the next three to six months - the time space in which Wall Street analysts live - don't look so great» Robert Kleinschmidt

What a great story, unless you lived during world war 2 you have no idea of the h — people lived through.

I turn to writer Flannery O'Connor, who, though she never wrote stories about the consecrated or even ostensibly Catholic life, had a great deal to say concerning the intersection of invisible and visible, of grace and nature.

This is a great story about people connecting and getting though life with dignity and compassion.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

And here is where the Church's great communal story offers its aid: for it is the responsibility of the «many members of the one body,» who collectively celebrate and enact that story, to guide each individual member into paths, into life genres, that harmonize with the great melody of God's redeeming work in His creation.

Thanks for sharing your life story and your son's life story, maybe we can hear about grandpa and great - great - great grandpa too.

I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.

I noticed I cry when I read or hear stories about people who have experienced great personal pain in life.

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

There simply remains no greater apologetic than a life caught up in the story of Jesus.

Their stories are some of great valor, grit and determination — but they're also stories of daily life, similar to the...

In the securing of the colt, they do as they are told and in so doing, the small and tattered strands of their lives are woven into the great story of redemption.

It was when my own life was most pointedly threatened, for example, that stories about the world were told with greatest frequency.

For in creation, in the call of Israel, in the life and work of Christ, and in the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the church we find the great defining events of all histories and the story around which we must in our turn orient our lives.

And that's really the sad part... if you just accept them as the stories they are... of humans trying to understand what this life is all about and making answers to fit their environment and circ.umstances, then the contradictions simply confirm just how wonderfully human we are... There are some great stories.

Whoever reads On the Edge of the Primeval Forest or the chapters in Schweitzer's autobiography dealing with his life in Africa, as if they were the sort of glib, humorous travelogue stories one finds in National Geographic, is missing a great deal.

In archaic religion each man finds meaning by repeating the creation, or to put it the other way about, he finds meaning by projecting the pattern of his own little story into the great story which explains not only his own little life but how things are.

The expansion of the universe, its experimentation with so many peculiar patterns, and above all its hospitality to the evolution of life and the birth of consciousness persuade us that it may be a story with great consequence.

What I know is this: Every great story involves an unlikely hero who discovers their strength and glory and finally lives into who they were created to be.

Joanna Reed Shelton: My Missionary Great - Grandfather Led Me to Christ But only after I went to Japan in search of his life story.

Perhaps, though, the biblical character of Jesus, rather than being entirely mythical, was based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants who had followers who euhemerized his life to a greater extent than those of other such claimants, so that in time the stories were so embellished that he became a god in them, but the Tesimonium Flavianum is hardly proof of his existence.

This value challenges every individual to strive for excellence in their life and choose a greater story, like perhaps one that stretches into eternity and joins God in the redemption of all things.

By comparison, the Genesis story boils down to In the beginning... the earth was a formless wasteland... Then God said, «Let the water teem with an abundance of living creatures... God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of swimming creatures with which the water teems and so on.

Romesh Dutt, translator of the Epics in Everyman's Library says of them: «The Hindu scarcely lives, man or woman, high or low, educated or ignorant, whose earliest recollections do not cling to the story and the character of the great Epics.

It is universally recognized that the long story from our earliest remains of human life onward through the great civilizations of the ancient east witnessed remarkable advances.

The story begins with the great assize «when the Son of man comes in his glory,» and it ends with the decisive verdict of assignment either to eternal punishment or to eternal life.

In the variety of motifs that run through the story, sign and glorification, resurrection and life, belief and disbelief, thenarrative puts great emphasis on the love and compassion which Jesus had for Lazarus and his two sisters.

To Tinker Hatfield, the world - renowned designer behind Nike's Air Jordan series, a truly innovative design helps a person live up to his or her greatest potential by simultaneously enhancing performance and telling a story.

Even after a season of my life when I walked far away from our traditions, gathering the greater story of our Church and history to myself, I now find myself corkscrewing back over and over again to the teachings of my childhood, the songs, the practices.

there is an even greater freedom that comes with humbling yourself and sharing your imperfections with others... not for self glorification but rather to encourage others in their life journey... kudos to Edward for the courage he had to share his personal story...

As with any great story, we live our stories, word by word, sentence by sentence, day by day.

But the earthly career was important not primarily because of what it was in itself but because of the place which it, considered as a whole, had in a great story of salvation which began in heaven, had its center in the human life of Jesus, and returned to heaven for its ending.

The thing of greatest beauty is the story it tells of a vibrant religious community arising from the ashes of so much that went wrong with monastic life in recent decades.

I went of to name several strong women from mostly Old Testament stories who had great impact on the lives of others, although there are also some great women in the NT.

What God wants from us, more than anything else, is to make the Bible's great drama of restoration and new life the story of our lives too.