Sentences with phrase «life as the end»

So could you honestly say that you don't think anyone has ever become religious, especially much later on in life as the end isn't far off (and even statistics that common sense would tell you should trend the opposite way, ie, someone who's gone 70, 75 years not believing in god or heaven, decides then to become a devote Christian?

I don't want to look at this life as the end, how sad and depressing.

Trying to lure the self - hypnotized gamer nation out into the world to see a dystopian popcorn flick that paints Sims - style living as the end of civilization might seem like a fool's errand.

Rather than being focussed on life as an end in terms of results, competition and prestige, Carl Honoré recommends that we focus on life as a process or journey which makes it about Being, loving and exploring.

Not exact matches

Some higher - end brands live in both the fashion and comfort world — even if a few luxe designers are loath to admit they try to make shoes comfortable, as though it devalues their brand, Schneider - Levy points out.

But the public good doesn't end up helping as many people is it should, since the residents who live just outside the city center — who would use the roads — aren't able to commute in.

As stated previously, the cost of living is high in Abuja, creating a great market for high - end residential living.

By the end of the day I was eating pizza at the same table as them asking them questions about their lives and they of mine.

«They live for fun as much as for money,» Newman observed in a 1998 speech, «and pursue both to the end of the universe.»

Dylan's Candy Bar targets consumers who enjoy the sweet life, with high - end candy shops in swanky locales such as East Hampton, New York and Telluride, Colorado.

Prince William recently ended his job as an ambulance helicopter pilot in order to focus more on royal duties as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip ease out of public life.

Meridian had to issue a recall of the EpiPen and EpiPen Jr. auto - injectors at the end of March as some of the devices, which are used for treating allergic reactions, had a defective part that potentially stopped them from working — an event that could be life - threatening.

Eventually, as my business — and my needs — grew, I decided to bring my professional relationship with Richard to an end and look for the support of real live mentors here in New York, who had the contacts and experience I needed to push my company to the next level.

'' [The middle class] sees money as a never - ending necessary evil that must be endured as part of life.

Destroying electronic business records once they've reached the end of their useful life isn't as simple as hitting the delete key.

True or not (and many advocates for women in tech spending their lives battling these stereotypes), in our unpolitically correct moments most of us would admit that we hold an image of programmers as shy but brilliant types who don't mind being holed away with their computers for hours or days on end.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

As the cost of living continues to skyrocket in the Bay Area, many working outside of tech struggle to make ends meet.

If I wasted all that time on all that stuff I wouldn't have accomplished nearly as much in my career, I would never have ended up as successful as I have, and my life wouldn't have been so fulfilling.

From a value perspective, if the young adults with leukemia who respond to therapy end up with more years of life — an outcome that is quite likely — then Kymriah will be cost - effective for society as well.

According to the regulator, the article (which has since been removed) also included a live feed from Dylon's Facebook page, as well as a sentence at the end that said «It's at times like these we are thankful that Dylon Colour Catcher is there to save us.»

This document lets your family, physicians and friends know what your end - of - life preferences are, as far as procedures such as surgery, organ donation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation are concerned.

Fear: Making ends meet The life of an entrepreneur is not glamorous, as money can be hard to come by, particularly in the early stages.

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

As 20 - somethings living in Mile End, they had no trouble figuring out what appealed to mysterious millennials: They just needed to walk around the block.

We are gonna live through situations where some people get embarrassed, some people end up going to jail, some other people have other problems as a consequence of some of these experiences.»

As in life, it is the never ending mountain ranges like the highest mountain in the world, Mauna Kea.

«We've created this social construct where your working life ends at 65 and retirement begins,» says Sinha, whose own parents are both still working as physicians — by choice, not financial necessity — in their 70s.

A friendship may certainly blossom from a mentorship, but «friend - only» type of activities (such as discussing your love life) should be shelved until after the mentorship has officially ended.

«We wanted to cash out,» Mushet says, adding that they may end up living in her parents» basement for a while as they wait out the downturn in the Vancouver market.

Wealthy people believe, with every fiber of their being, that there is no such thing as bad luck — they believe that the lives they lead are the end product of the choices they have made.

«This means they are seeing their special day as not the end goal but as part of their ongoing life together as a couple,» says Kelly.

The results matched these expectations in that the No - Facebook group reported lower life satisfaction at the end of the study than those in the Facebook - as - normal condition (the average life satisfaction for the Facebook - as - normal group had increased during the study whereas the No - Facebook group's had not).

As you answer this question, aim for people you know in your life already as well as people who represent the end - experiences and impacts you want to makAs you answer this question, aim for people you know in your life already as well as people who represent the end - experiences and impacts you want to makas well as people who represent the end - experiences and impacts you want to makas people who represent the end - experiences and impacts you want to make.

«Because, at the end of the day, as Woody Allen used to say,»80 percent of life is just showing up.»»

Think of your life dream as analogous to your destination — if you find a boulder in the road, you're more likely to quickly find a way around this obstacle and successfully re-orientate yourself if you have a clear picture of where you're trying to end up, rather than if you are simply putting one foot in front of another on the path immediately in front of you.

As carbon dioxide is burned to fuel our lives, a percentage of that carbon ends up in the world's oceans.

In particular, she was impressed with how social media advanced the conversation around Black Lives Matter, a movement to end violence against African Americans that started as a hashtag on Twitter.

Sound management of your work life is the cornerstone of controlling your calendar, and to this end Vanderkam proposes we adopt a stricter outlook on what actually constitutes work: «any «work» that is not advancing you toward the professional life you want should not count as work.

It leads to a more collaborative and less hierarchical society, since a CEO in civilian life may end up taking orders from a taxi driver in the service, as well as future business partnerships.

As one general resignedly tells him, «We willingly implement lessons learnt at the bottom end, because changing and adapting low - level tactics saves lives.

Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for animals than what I've done with my life.»

The memorandum, and as yet undisclosed similar directives to various locales over which the NLRB has jurisdiction, have provoked a firestorm of outrage from businesses and business groups that say the memo spells the end of franchising, and represents an uneasy encroachment of greater federal regulation into business life.

Equipment needs to be replaced as it reaches the end of its useful life.»

He criticized states for kicking the can down the road, living beyond their means year after year in a «never - ending sense of crisis» that results in «stop - and - go funding of vital programs,» such as those for infrastructure, education, pensions and city and county services.

Respected Apple analyst Ming - Chi Kuo told the publication that the lack of demand will see the «end of life» for the iPhone X, meaning it will not be offered to customers as a lower - cost option when new iPhone models are released later this year.

The children who were willing to delay gratification and waited to receive the second marshmallow ended up having higher SAT scores, lower levels of substance abuse, lower likelihood of obesity, better responses to stress, better social skills as reported by their parents, and generally better scores in a range of other life measures.

At the end of the same row was Musk's mother, Maye, enjoying her own late - life career as an over-sixties model, and next to the boys was Musk's second wife, the British actress Talulah Riley.

Our house ended up with 2 - 3 feet of water inside, and as a result I have a small sense of how painful life will be for many of the residents over the next many months.

In the end, as with anything in life, you get out of WBENC what you put into WBENC.