Sentences with phrase «life failure as»

She was everything a heroine should be, but better — because she represents not only success, but real - life failure as well.

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«An audacious company is one that measures its success or failure by the number of people whose lives are improved as a result of its work,» he told me.

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You can let the failure define you, or you can use it as a life lesson that helps you become a more well - rounded entrepreneur.

As Thomas Edison said, «Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.»

Failure brings you closer to discovering what works, so instead of calling something a failure, reframe it as a pivot or plot twist in your lifeFailure brings you closer to discovering what works, so instead of calling something a failure, reframe it as a pivot or plot twist in your lifefailure, reframe it as a pivot or plot twist in your life story.

Clinically depressed and occasionally contemplating suicide, she considered herself as «poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless,» and later would look back on that time in her life and say she was «the biggest failure I knew.»

«An exceptionally short - lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless... By every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew,» Rowling said during a 2008 Harvard University commencement speech.

Fear of failure often has deep roots in our early lives, so getting tough with yourself and giving yourself a lecture is about as effective as yelling at a teary two year old.

Zafrir, a former commander of Israel's famed intelligence corps, Unit 8200, told me that the conscripted Israeli military experience has become a major generator of entrepreneurial skills, as people are trained fast, learn how to cope with failure and how to innovate by achieving the impossible because lives depend on it.

«Being there in late 1990s, [I] was witness to many successful projects, as well as failures and lived through the bubbles and the busts,» he says.

As a young entrepreneur, when you have spent such a large percentage of your life building this concept — your baby — bringing it to life, eating, sleeping (rarely) and breathing it, failure can seem to take on monumental significance.

Just hoping things will turn out well stops us from making tough choices, believing the best about others can get you taken advantage of, and a failure to look at the world as it truly is can be harmful to both your business and your personal life.

As I've stated before, failure happens to everyone — whether in grade school, our personal lives or our professional lives.

Once you've put such a plan in place, ideally by the time you're in your forties, «the plan should be able to survive everything except major changes in your life, such as the death of a close family member or failure of part of your business,» says Dick Cummins, director of personal financial services in Coopers & Lybrand's New York City office.

When perceived failures of a successor, such as the phone hacking scandal, are very public, they can be very hard for the successor to live down.

Despite Vogel's involvement in the case that took away 18 years of Avery's life, the attorney does not seem to be experiencing the same level of backlash as Kratz (perhaps because the state's failures in 1985 have been well known to the public for more than a decade at this point).

[14:18] Rules of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40] God loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most of us live a life where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?

As growth rates slow, the failure to cut out bad policies will mean continued stagnation or declines in living standards for some.

Capitalism requires failure since that is what drives a better life for society as a whole.

America is too tough and racist to be living as an eastern christian now a days.You have to be white to be living as a Christian in US, in a bid to accomodate all the religions of the world, America has been a failure of its assimilation of Eastern Orthodox Christians in this country who are faced daily with intense bigotry, racism and total denial of their own existance.

It's about our repeated failure to live that love, and the love of God that redeems us and makes us whole as a human family.

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

Takeaway for me is that the pain / suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's love and personal concern for our development, reminding us of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way of branding / choosing us as his own...

I ask this because I've struggled with similar feelings throughout my life — processing various failures, weaknesses, and disappointments as practical signs that God is not for me, but against me — either toying with me, cursing me, punishing me, rejecting me, or choosing not to bless me for not living up to his standards.

Indeed, we suspect that the very distinction between theology, ethics and liturgy reflects the seminary's adoption of inappropriate academic models of compartmentalization and a failure to take seriously the liturgical life of congregations as central to our educative task.

If the One who advocated nonviolent love and suffering as the true way to overcome our enemies had been destroyed by evil at the cross, if he had remained in death, then we would have to conclude that death and failure are the final word for those who live nonviolently.

even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — well, yes, often I guess this is so — but not always I think.

We tend to see death as the ultimate evil thing that can happen and any death as the failure of God to preserve life.

In a new edition of the New International Version of the Bible, «Game Plan for Life Bible, NIV: Notes by Joe Gibbs,» and a book of biblical devotions, «Game Plan for Life: Chalk Talks,» Gibbs writes frankly about many of his failures, about how just as his coaching career was soaring he was facing private calamities including a bad real estate deal that had him losing $ 35,000 a month and spiraling into bankruptcy.

Awareness of how far short of the new creation he fell had fueled his guilt and misery, even as he interpreted the depressive attacks as failure to live in Christ.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

The synod agreed that the evils responsible for the recent catastrophes were such things as pride in heart and body, a spiritual falling away, excessive profanity, breakdown of family life, and failure to observe the Sabbath.

It was the Holy Spirit who gave her the courage to tend the wounded in wars, to enter the slums without a penny, to live as the only white woman in a black enclave, to endure the failure of two apostolates and to begin again, to push herself beyond her limits to preach the Gospel of Love.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

You fail to see that believing that the «end is neigh» is generally recognized by psychologists as a basic human reaction to one perceiving themselves as a failure in life.

They concern life as a whole, in all its many aspects of weal and woe, chance and destiny, success and failure, triumph and tragedy, agony and glory, hope and despair.

Some of us might be more sympathetic to Lindsell and his aims if we could read his book as a defense of biblical authority or as an analysis of the failure of the church (including the «evangelical» church) to find a mode of life and witness that seems authentically «biblical.»

Our failure to provide this care shows «how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them.»

On this issue it is possible to experience such contradictory jolts of conscience that one finally doesn't know whether to list oneself as a member of a society of the courageously righteous who are mature enough to face up to life's ambiguity and do the difficult things that freedom requires — or simply a society of moral failures.

Surely one needs to realize that when you stake all your life on your music then there could be the chance of an ultimate failure as a result of one's efforts.

yet when he had grown old, he looked back on his life as if it were an absolute failure.

Yet there can be no excuse for that preacher's failure to do all that is in his or her power to bring men and women to «ripeness» in Christ, as the old Ordinal phrased it, and thus to be brought into a way of living which is both enabled and enriched.

In a statement, it outlined its issue with Bishop Alan: «The continued failure to admonish the Bishop of Buckingham, despite his refusal to uphold the teaching of the Church and guidance of the House on matters of sexuality, whilst also allowing him, without criticism, repeatedly to describe Conservative Evangelicals as homophobic, including those who themselves experience same - sex attraction but seek to live celibate, God - honouring lives.»

The failure of the quest must warn us as to the extent to which the Jesus to whom we try to relate is likely to be more the product of our fancies than the man who once lived in Galilee.

To fail to be one's true human self is to fail in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God in the divine intention for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is shalom or abundance of life.

This is «redemption», not as if it were merely a rescue from human failure but as an indication of and an empowering for the «wholeness of life» (shalom, as the Hebrew has it) which God purposes for men and women both in their personal existence and in their social belonging.

If we are to understand either those aspirations or the failure to attain them, we must continue our effort to understand the nature of this covenant - making people with its deep need for newness and for liberation from oldness in religion, in politics, and in personal life, as well as the moral predicaments the search for newness and liberation so often generated.

Moreover it needs to be carefully explained that the promotion and use of artificial contraceptives encourages an exploitative attitude to sexual intimacy in which the generation of new life is seen as a «failure», a «disaster», something to be avoided at all costs.

Wherever life may take us, regardless of our choices or our roles or our story, regardless of the seasons of our lives, of our failures and imperfections, let us make living like we are beloved warriors the radical discipline of our lives, filling our minds and our hearts with the truth of Jesus Christ, and the goodness of the freedom he offers to us as his own.