Sentences with phrase «greatest life adversities»

These are students facing the greatest life adversities - poverty, coerced gang involvement, first hand witness to violent deaths, loss of family members, discrimination, and abuse.

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One of the qualities employers most value now is called grit — the fortitude, insight, and ability to adapt on the fly that often comes from overcoming adversity or disadvantage in life, as Ellen McGirt explains in the feature «How Your Life Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.&ralife, as Ellen McGirt explains in the feature «How Your Life Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.&raLife Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.»
Here, for example, is what she said in her 1999 Christmas address: «I hope that, like me, you will be comforted by the example of Jesus of Nazareth who, often in circumstances of great adversity, managed to live an outgoing, unselfish and sacrificial life.
No longer having a life which is muted and limited by anger, resentment, and sorrow, they are able to move ahead having learned that oftentimes life's greatest triumphs are born on the heels of adversity and are opened to receive God's abundant grace.
Indeed, the major function of religion, in the experience of its great exemplars, has been not so much the explanation of life, as life's conquest — the winning of spiritual triumph in the midst of mysterious adversity.
Sometimes, adversity will lead to greater grace than a non-turbulent life.
As the only Latino player of his time, Pancho Gonzalez experienced great adversity and obstacles in his life.
I now know that cancer and a broken back were two of the greatest blessings in my life, and that adversity is an amazing catalyst for personal growth.
Anne Heche stars in That's What She Said, a quirky and honest look at friendship in the face of adversity, that asks one of life's great questions: why does it always have to be so hard?
Again, a student who learns to find her way through a multitude of emotional distractions that may inhibit her learning — and in today's world, there are many — has far greater chance in life to replicate those effects and forge ahead in the face of adversity than the student who struggles to calm down in the classroom.
No stranger to adversity, Natalie was determined to make something great out of her life
«With the help of Berrett - Koehler and iUniverse, the methods and teachings I've used in my own life to overcome great adversity throughout my career, are now available to everyone in Why Wait to Be Great, and I hope it encourages others to deal with their pain and follow their dreams just as I have with my own.&rgreat adversity throughout my career, are now available to everyone in Why Wait to Be Great, and I hope it encourages others to deal with their pain and follow their dreams just as I have with my own.&rGreat, and I hope it encourages others to deal with their pain and follow their dreams just as I have with my own.»
Numerous scientific studies of children facing great adversity in their lives support the importance of resilience as a powerful force.
A lot of times, it isn't smooth and it's not that great and you've deal with a lot of adversities and that's a part of life, and a part of travelling!
You might not have some great tragedy in your life, but every artist meets adversity and Resistance when it comes to creating their work.
Whatever the reasons that you decided to drive at this point in your life, we understand that you may have overcome great adversities before making this decision.
The Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar spoke about Indigenous women and girls across the country who are achieving extraordinary acts while living in great adversity.
If these men and women can overcome great adversities in their lives and make their lives count for something, than we who are recovering from infidelity can as well.
This article, by Center Director Jack P. Shonkoff and Pat Levitt, science director of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, advocates for greater synergy between neuroscience and innovation in early childhood policy to improve life outcomes for children experiencing significant adversity.
Getting to know you this past year has made it clear to me that — despite any adversity in your life — your great attitude will allow you to always come out on top.
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