Sentences with phrase «luck stories about»
Culbertson has heard plenty of hard - luck stories about professional athletes who run out of money after they hang up their jerseys for the final time.
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«You hear so many stories about that «one great idea» where someone lucked out and identified a gap in the market, or created something that no one had ever thought of before,» says Rubio.
There is a great story of luck and persistence about Jack «Treetop» Strauss.
When they were finally asked to reign it in they actually came to the next meeting purposely interrupted a quiet time with more personal stories and finished the rant with and if you don't like what i have to say then its bad luck you shouldn't be worried about what I'm doing you should keep your eyes on Jesus.
The fish story thus becomes not about luck, but about blessing.
It has never really been about how much you spend or how much of a genius you are, it takes sustained competitiveness at the highest level and / or that extra bit of luck to have a shot at it hence my [previous] happiness at being in the top four [lots of clubs would do almost anything to get in that league], however even that can get stale, to be realistic, I think progress would be aiming for the top two now, enough of these top four stories, it ran its course now we need to aim higher, when the top two is our priority, it becomes inevitable that whoever might be in front of us is bound to slip up on a few occasions ala Bayern and Dortmund, we should now set our sights on the top four of the champions league lol
Maybe footballing greatness is, at heart, an uncertain exercise dominated by luck, circumstance, and imperfection to a far greater extent than those of us who like telling stories about it would ever care to admit.
When the directors of the 1959 Pan American Games set about buying a track for installation at Soldier Field in Chicago two years ago they not only found that there were no major track builders, as such, in the country, but that the few good U.S. tracks in existence seemed to be the result of pure luck — the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, got its ancient but revered brick - dust track, the story goes, because a building was being demolished nearby and a Coliseum official suddenly had the bright idea that the crushed bricks would make a good running surface.
In the next four years I expect to read about Max leading George Washington University to the kind of prominence enjoyed by its D.C. neighbor, Georgetown, and, with luck, see his name where Patrick Ewing's was this year, in a story on the 1988 Olympic basketball trials.
Campaigns often have better luck hijacking an existing story rather than trying to uncover the un-covered, so think about ways you can hang your coat on an existing news peg.
I think that you have a lot better luck when you're drawn to a story [with an] idea that resonates with you on some level that maybe at first you can't even articulate for yourself, and then as you immerse yourself more in it, you realize that even [if] it spoke to you on some level — the reason it [compelled] you is that it's speaking the truth to you about something in your own life or in society's current situation that feels truthful and feels like you are able to explore an idea or express an idea that in another [movie] might not be so well suited for.
(If you prefer to hear Dr. Wahls explain her story and her methods rather than read about it, you're in luck!
The best thing about this bizarre love story (follie de grandeur) between a female pool cleaner and immobile man in wheelchair is that it puts icon Robert Downey behind the camera after long absence; with some luck Patrick Dempsey should become a lead man
The story is about Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin), a rich kid trying his luck for the first time in the public school system.
In Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney writes, directs and acts in the story about broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow.
And as luck would have it, the whole story is about to be revisited early next year.
Luck, and his ability to find the story in anything, has worked well for Littlefield — a former high school teacher who honed his writing skills at the Ed School — and the show, which is about sports, but not about sports.
The Way Life Should Be is a story about the way life really can be, with a little bit of luck and just the right seasoning.»
Stories inspired by Chinese folktales enliven this exciting saga about a young girl who embarks on a wild, mystical quest to reverse her family's bad luck.
A heartfelt, humorous, romantic - mystery story about a down - on - her - luck lawyer: Mistletoe And Murder In Las Vegas by Colleen Collins
But that inspiring story was being buried by headlines about those whose luck was especially outsized (as mine has been).
In no particular order: Forecast; The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human; Investing: The Last Liberal Art; The Signal and the Noise; The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing; Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes; The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe; Risk; Skating Where the Puck Was: The Correlation Game in a Flat World; and Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order).
And the media & internet will always prefer to remind you of the investors & fund managers who left you for dust — that's human nature, we like to otherwise forget about the hard luck stories & all the bets which never worked out... In the end, you have to remember each & every investor has a different objective.
I would also like to mention that during our 4 day / 3 night hike, we encountered several other hikers along the trail who were with various other tour companies (some of which I had researched prior to booking with Active Adventures), and were told several stories about various mishaps and / or negative experiences they were having with their tour leaders... perhaps we lucked out with our fantastic tour leader, but I definitely do not regret for a second my decision to ring in the third decade of my life with Active Adventures!
One particular news story talked about how Thor bought a Power Disco Ball, and suddenly he had a string of good luck that he credited entirely to the purchase of said Power Disco Ball.
Whatever your story may be, for those of you choosing to live or work off - grid, Rosen wants to hear all about it and include your tales of ingenuity, self - reliance, creativity or just plain dumb luck.
Employers don't need to know about your job search — whether it's hard luck stories or funny stories.
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