Sentences with phrase «growing up»

Watching that experience and growing up in and around the rock - and - roll industry and watching him leave a pretty conservative industry of accounting for the music industry — and the innovation that he brought to that industry — was a big part of my upbringing.

If there hadn't been any books on Navy SEALs when I was growing up then I probably would've ended up behind a desk or, even worse, in the marines (that's joke - but not really).

You also know Bob, Dot and Enzo, because like Nintendo and Pokémon, ReBoot, the world's first computer - animated television series, was a big part of growing up in the»90s.

«Growing up there was like endless summers,» recalls Tony Stewart.

Even as a child growing up in the 1940s in Dinuba, Calif., the son of a dentist, he was something of an action nerd.

She was one of 10 kids growing up in New Jersey.

Growing up in a multi-generation FIRE family has greatly influenced the way I see financial independence and early retirement.

«I probably learned way more from my dad growing up than I realized, but it was just watching, «Elmore said.

Growing up in Winnipeg, he didn't know where Silicon Valley was, «but I wanted to be there!»

Growing up with the Internet means that Millennials know a lot about a variety of topics.

Below is a little about each of these family members of mine, followed by the lessons learned growing up around them.

Growing up, my dad would drop off my brother and I at school every morning, then pick us up afterwards.

«Growing up on a farm in New England, and then working in the field after college with Outward Bound, the entire time I needed to wear good, heavy - duty work pants, but there was nothing available.

When asked what her dream life looked like growing up, the 27 - year - old said, «I thought for a while maybe I could be an interior designer — that was the only job I knew about because my mom was friends with an interior designer.»

«In some ways, this is growing up.

Growing up, we didn't have any fancy toys or fancy clothes.

Growing up in a business family, Kailas always had an entrepreneurial streak to do something unique in life.

Growing up, Israel's own powerful family had been inside a circle that had propped up corrupt dictators and manipulated the market.

«Growing up I was easy prey.

«Diary of a Wimpy Kid» best - selling author Jeff Kinney talks about the tenth installment in the middle - schooler's book series, brick and mortar book - selling and the global phenomenon of growing up a wimpy kid.

«When I was growing up in politics, the wisdom was to look for a 50 - year - old mentor,» Trippi said.

No matter what sport you played growing up, you had a coach who told you what you were doing right and wrong, so that you could improve upon it.

Carnegie had a really rough life growing up.

Playing competitive sports my whole life growing up, no coach would bring players onto their team without seeing them in action first.»

American technology reached India - born Nadella when he was growing up, he said, and helped him «dream the dream,» and after immigrating to the U.S., he came to «live the dream.»

«Growing up there was like endless

Growing up with entrepreneurship in her DNA, Amanda Newman earned her real - estate license after college and founded Parkbench.com in Toronto, ON as a neighborhood platform for agents to build relationships and get more clients.

Rather, you might say the class troublemaker is finally growing up.

We're growing up as a business and for some people, that's really different and some people don't like it.

«Growing up is an issue,» May says, referring to the challenge of getting past the startup phase.

Growing up in an apartment above his father's saloon, he was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys at age 7, a reformatory and orphanage in Baltimore, where he remained for the next 12 years.

Over the course of two hours, we discussed a number of topics, including his successes and failures while at the White House, growing up in Tanzania, and his current job as a senior vice-president at software - as - a-service company Salesforce.com.

«When I was growing up my father would always tell me, «We all only have 24 hours a day.

Growing up, one of the first business ideas I had was to create a vending machine fully stocked with food for my family and friends.

I'll tell you about my experiences growing up in a traditional American circus and the current aerial circus community thriving in New York City.

Growing up in Shanghai, Dong «never had a chance to engage in sports.»

Growing up I thought I would be a doctor or a teacher.

He also struggled with a stutter growing up.

The outspoken Shark Tank star says the very thought of his kids growing up spoiled is his second greatest fear in life.

He also described his own experience growing up with grandparents who suffered from dementia.

While this was all useful, I find the best hints to keep millenials motivated and engaged at the office come from a perhaps unlikely place: the video games they played when they were growing up.

Alongside the layoffs came accusations of «cultural woes,» according to Fast Company, which Pierson says is a part of the company growing up.

Missing the submarine sandwiches he'd enjoyed growing up, Bill Specht began thinking about opening his own sandwich shop in his new home, Milwaukee.

«It was obvious to us growing up how incredibly exciting it was,» he said, «not just that you had a new device, but the sense that what you could do was limited only by your imagination.»

Growing up in rural Michigan, Jesse Vollmar watched as technology transformed the world around him, while life on the farm remained labor - intensive and stuck in the past.

After growing up in a financially unstable home, I didn't want to be enslaved to debt as an adult.

But there's another word to describe growing up: maturing.

Her kids are growing up without a father.

We're growing up later than we used to.

When I was growing up, my mom didn't like tennis but she loved Chrissie.