Sentences with phrase «idea of a leap»

While the backcourt duo of Peyton Siva and Russ Smith came to define the 2012 - 13 national champions from Louisville, it was big men Gorgui Dieng and Chane Behanan who toyed briefly with the idea of a leap to the NBA the year before.

If you like the idea of leaping through the air and slicing and dicing your way through hordes of alien troops while looking like a space - age samurai, then Warframe is the game for you.

If you look at the study pointed to by TomFP (way up the thread)-- http://kestencgreen.com/green%26armstrong-agw-analogies.pdf — you'll see why I'm allergic to the idea of leaping into policy prescriptions too early.

Not exact matches

Some Mondays you leap out of bed well rested and chock full of ideas and enthusiasm for the week ahead.

Not every startup has to launch with a massive leap forward; in fact, plenty of great ideas start with that very one thing that is just a «micro step» towards that big vision.

As CEO of Credible, a marketplace for student loan refinancing which was founded in 2012 and recently secured $ 2.7 million in seed round financing, Stephen Dash has some ideas on how to get your money in order before taking a big leap as an entrepreneur.

He said that the idea of someone leaping from 400,000 ft was «completely insane».

Courage and Confidence Taking a chance can be scary, but don't be afraid to take the leap of faith on a good idea.

[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?

When Vancouver businessman John Bruk approached him with the innovative proposal of creating a Foundation to help Canadians better understand Asia's evolution, Trudeau leapt at the idea.

(Forgive me for criticizing but I take one big leap of faith that you will be more interested in discussing the logic behind ideas than to get hurt by me opposing this..

I am currently writing a book about faith, and in it, I briefly address the idea of blind faith, or taking a leap of faith.

@Snow, «With your skill at making logical leaps like this...» Apparently you do understand the idea of sarcasm.

Notional hypothesis such as the big bang and evolution as a means to species have been found to be false and once that happens the believers in these ideas are beyond a leap of faith.

they are a bit of a leap from my idea of a scone, split in half and spread with butter.

We have a club without leadership from owner, to board and manager, which is regressing at an alarming rate, while our most «hated» rival has leapt ahead, by having ambition, youth, backbone and new ideas, ALL of which we desperately lack.

It's a vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real children's lives, that brings the schools of urban America leaping off the page — and should be forced reading for Michael Gove and his merry band of free - schoolers, who, having filched the idea of charter and KIPP schools from the US, now need to look West again to see how fiddling with school structures can never, by itself, help pupils do better.

This still doesn't solve the issue of when to make the final, brutal leap to no pacifier, though there are plenty of creative ideas for that: The Binkie Fairy comes like the Tooth Fairy and trades toys for pacifiers.

Faced with opposition and a stubborn refusal on the part of the Legislature to provide budget - cut ideas, Paterson leaps into the void, alone.

McMahon dabbled with the idea of running this year but didn't make the leap.

I like the idea of virtual water because it helps us think about our water use differently without having to make giant, complicated leaps.

Scientists strive for authoritative, objective knowledge — but they pursue it by taking leaps of imagination, following hunches, and trashing one another's ideas.

But the idea of single - subject research didn't really make the leap to medicine of the body until the early 1980s when Gordon Guyatt, a Canadian physician now known as a founder of evidence - based medicine, began working in an interdisciplinary department at McMaster University in Ontario, with psychologists, biostatisticians, ethicists and clinical epidemiologists all working together.

The idea of neural progenitor or stem cell susceptibility to cell death may be a conceptual leap in the mechanism for a host of neurological disorders,» said Lupski.

«I can remember the exact spot on the Backs [the riverside in Cambridge] where the idea suddenly leapt into my mind that Laue's spots were due to the reflection of X-ray pulses by sheets of atoms in the crystal,» Lawrence later wrote.

Maybe you've toyed with the idea of giving up gluten, or at least limiting it somewhat, but you haven't made the leap just yet.

For most, the idea of getting 65 % of calories from fat is going to be a difficult mental leap, I think.

I have been toying with the idea of trying the Capsule Wardrobe trend, but I've yet to take the leap.

But I hate the idea of taking such a big leap of faith that when it will arrive in 6 months time it will be what I hoped for and fit as it's meant to.

When I look back to the start of the year — to when I first had the idea of starting the UK Dating Awards, and to the role models around me who helped convince me to take a leap of faith, it was the female entrepreneurs who I know and love, who inadvertently convinced me I could turn a dream into a reality.

The idea of being able to find potential partners and even sort them by age, eye colour, location, sexual orientation, etc., was a major leap for the time.

It goes without saying that some American cities have grown in leaps and bounds over the years and the natives have welcomed the idea of interracial dating with open arms.

Written long before the sequels were published, Garland's script seizes on key ideas from the novel, but spins them in exciting new directions, using his source as a kind of leaping - off point (even the opening meteor detail is a bit of a departure, albeit one with rich other - worldly implications) from which he offers five tough women a chance to make first contact with this alien presence, and perhaps save the human race in the process.

I had no idea what I was going to look like so then it becomes this balancing act and a little bit of a leap of faith.

Even so, his new film feels like an overflowing repository of ideas, a by - parts exhilarating and baffling mélange of melodrama and comedy that can leap from Greek mythology to rap music in a finger - snap.

Melissa McCarthy — my idea of a super hero — is back in top form as a CIA agent who jumps at the chance to leave her desk job and leap into the world of spies in disguise!

There are genuinely inspired ideas behind some of this material (The Tharks» desert huts and the vague grandeur of Helium notwithstanding), like Zodanga, a mobile city with massive and grinding legs, and the airships, which offer Carter the opportunity to leap from one to another while fighting off hostile forces.

The leaps of logic in the plot and farfetched ideas on the judicial system stretch the believability to its maximum proportion, and even if the underlying message of the movie is the culpability of big businesses in tainting juries for their own profits, the contortions made to hold together the story make for some rough patches.

A Framework for K - 12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core ideas presents a giant leap forward in terms of understanding what a quality K - 12 science education should look like.

Part of the idea behind chartering was that when new ideas were successful, districts would leap at the opportunity to implement them.

The teams from The School of Saints, Faith, Hope and Charity; St. Clements School and Our Lady of Perpetual Help gathered at the LEAP Collaboratory May 9 to present their innovative ideas, including their ideation process and iteration cycles, before their peers and a panel of judges.

Named as one of the Top 40 Innovators in Educations in 2013 by the Center for Digital Education, Chris Liang - Vergara is currently the Chief of Learning Innovation at LEAP Innovations, a nonprofit in Chicago that supports pilot studies of personalized learning models and provides training space to connect educators, entrepreneurs, tech companies, learning scientists, and students to develop next - generation models, share ideas, and co-develop solutions.

The Learning Assembly recently convened at the LEAP Innovations office in Chicago for two full days of idea sharing and connecting; including visits to LEAP partner schools.

The Ecover Young Green Champions award is open to classmates, youth groups, friends and individuals who are under the age of 18 with ideas so good they'll make everyone around them leap in the air with joy!

If ever proof were needed for the notion that it's a good idea to look before you leap, it's the implementation of Race to the Top in Tennessee.

We are now growing by leaps and bounds, based on the simple idea of «help us help you.»

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Our school, like so many charter schools, began with a big idea by our founding leaders and a leap of faith by our early families and supporters.

I would imagine many agencies who currently entertain the idea of publishing their clients» work but have yet to take the leap are hesitating because they acknowledge the immense gap between the idea and its implementation, between the huge number of hours and any return on investment, between the promised land of John Locke's millions and a single author's first venture into non-traditional publishing.

The organization's mission is based on the foundational idea that one - on - one interactive learning allows kids to make great leaps in their skills and sense of self.