Sentences with phrase «life as a bore»

The whole point of retiring early for us is to NOT slog through life as bored, drone-esque office workers.

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His departure from Avid Life represents a tacit acknowledgment that things went very badly under his watch, and that as CEO, he bears ultimate responsibility for it.

Masciovecchio, who was born in the nearby village of Paganica, says he has lost all hope of ever returning to his former home and speaks bitterly as he walks around the boarded up houses and debris in the narrow streets where he used to live.

Born in Ethiopia, Kenna Zemedkun, known simply as «Kenna,» moved to the U.S. when he was 3 and has spent much of his life finding solutions to problems that most people either pretend aren't there or do their best to steer clear of.

Born in the UK, raised in South Africa, Lady Spencer now lives in London, where she works as a professional model.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

«This globetrotting novel follows the life of an awkward female «natural philosopher» born in 1800, providing a window into the development of science as a profession in the 19th century and dealing with the slings, arrows, and random events that mark all our lives.

Millennials — born 1977 to 1995 — are moving more and more into the middle and upper ranks of corporate life as boomers leave conventional full - time jobs.

Thirty - six percent of Millennials — otherwise known as Generation Y, which includes those born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s — were living with mom and dad last year, according to a report by Pew Research Center.

McAfee, as you may have heard, is on the lam from authorities in Belize — where the British - born American lives — after the murder of the software entrepreneur's neighbor, American ex-patriot Gregory Viant Faull.

From an early age, Asquith, who was born in Sussex but has spent most of his life in London, has been saving his money, starting with «hoarding cash and doing little jobs where I could» such as washing neighbourhood cars at age 12 to asking for money instead of presents at birthdays and Christmas.

As a young girl living in poverty, Vienna - born Hattie Carnegie dreamed of climbing to the top in superkinetic New York, where every day, it seemed, ideas were turned into fortunes.

Free yourself from boring routine and modest pay - off activity and graduate to life as a master marketer.

Additionally, excessive Facebook use is linked to depression as people often compare their seemingly boring lives to that of friends.

In 2007, «The Rock Insurance Co.» is born as a Virtual Insurance Company in Second Life, the first one of its kind.

Born in 2007 as a Second Life virtual company, The Rock has evolved in a full featured digital institution incorporated in Europe.

[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?

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Almost all that was original and beautiful or serviceable in the intellectual and spiritual life of primitive man inevitably died as soon as it was born.»

Baby boomers» view about having enough money to do what they want are based on telephone interviews conducted Dec. 6 - 29, 2013, as part of the Gallup - Healthways Well - Being Index survey, with a random sample of 1,929 adults born between 1946 and 1964, and living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

The strength was short - lived, however, as the curve subsequently bear - steepened on rising inflation expectations from the slightly above - consensus AHE at 0.31 % MoM and WTI crude futures near $ 45 / bbl.

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and Joint Base Lewis - McChord will celebrate the diversity and honor of its service members, including Sgt. Maj. El Sar, I Corps command chaplain sergeant major, a Cambodian - born American who lived through atrocities as a child in his homeland and is now proud to call America home.

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada has estimated there could be as many as 600,000 Canadians living in Asia, most of them foreign - born.

Unofficially dubbed as the «Boring Bricks» by the billionaire entrepreneur, the life - size LEGO - like interlocking blocks would be sold as kits and as material for low - cost housing projects.

As a «Tex - Can» — born in Canada, living in Texas for the past 26 years — I am so blessed to call Texas my home.

Born in a manger to simple commoners, He assumed a simple lifestyle as a carpenter and throughout His life, He owned nothing except the stuff He traveled with.

The «choice» is whether to be the person you were born as or to spend you're whole life trying to live a lie.

About 60 survivors — and student activists — born out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled to the infamous Columbine High School in Colorado as part of the Vote for Our Lives rally.

This technology reinforces natural instincts, such as the prolongation of human life, which inevitably entails great costs - greater costs than the welfare state can bear.

Just as I was oblivious for much of my life to the problems posed by bearing and rearing children, so humankind was blissfully undisturbed for most of....

Just as I was oblivious for much of my life to the problems posed by bearing and rearing children, so humankind was blissfully undisturbed for most of its history by the conundrums this book addresses.

As a born again Christian I wouldn't want to live in the theocracy of Iran, so why would I want to live in a theocracy here in the United States?

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

We live our lives in our families: the families we are born into, the families we create, the families we make through the people we choose as friends.

Realistically, this has no bearing whatsoever in reality, as the bible has been proven to by nothing but mythological fables in the guise of a life instruction manual.

one brother that was so «born again» that he denounced our mentally ill younger brother as being «full of Satan»... this hurt my younger brother and he took his own life.

«It is - as so often - the poorest and most vulnerable who bear the brunt of the violence, who have lost lives, loved ones and homes.

As far as living in wrong country... I served My Country this country to be exact where i was born and raiseAs far as living in wrong country... I served My Country this country to be exact where i was born and raiseas living in wrong country... I served My Country this country to be exact where i was born and raised.

He also taught his disciples that they should pray and act to bring God's system of justice to bear wherever they lived — «Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven» (Matthew 6:9 - 11).

It presents the story of the last days of Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., as she battles the advanced cancer that we know from the outset will take her life.

In Jesus death and resurrection as first born of New Creation, we have each been given a new identity as Resurrection people who are to live as agents of reconciliation.

It is just as silly to say that man and bears never lived together... because the bears would kill the people.

(By the way, we believe in pre-mortal existence where we were born as spirit children, which we also believe in every living thing having a soul two but anyways thats not revelant...) Which was when they were at the «drawing board» of the plan of Earth and everything and how they were going to do everything i.e. who was going to be the savior (because every body needs an atonement so we can go back and repent).

an existence of just bliss is boring and painfully just as a life of nothing but suffering.

Are we so unreasonable as to place our lives, our conscious thought bearing selves, into the ever - present yet never seen?

No longer then is the bearing and rearing of children thought of as a task we should take up or as a return we make for the gift of life; instead, it is a project we undertake if it promises to meet our needs and desires.

Considering that Camus had seen some of the worst humanity had to offer - he was born in Algeria during French Colonialism, and then fought the Nazis as part of the French Resistance in Paris - that he could still find value in life was remarkable.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Man - made hypothesis of where we came from, such as from evolution (saying that proteins formed in a «prebiotic soup» and then «joining hands» with DNA, so that eventually a living cell is born), is not satisfying nor does it provide logical answers as to how the quality of love came about nor a conscience, that literally means «co-knowledge» in Greek.

She added: «We recognize that there are difficulties women face with pregnancies, especially in cases where the unborn child may be born with a life - limiting disease, but we do not believe that abortion is the answer, and that funding for a free abortion in another country is short - sighted as it neglects any mention of an offer of counselling or care for the woman.»