Sentences with phrase «of being a bigger person»

«Sometimes when I get mad I just breathe deep... I just, like I picture me being in a certain place I like, and I just thought I could overcome everybody and then I just stop being mad... I think of being a bigger person and doing something maybe a wise man would do... I think of something that a stronger, a mentally stronger person would do.»

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When a relationship hits a serious stage and couples get married or commit to each other in some big way, people are often too overcome with excitement or too overwhelmed by the prospect of spending forever with this person to have a deep discussion about where their priorities lie.

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

«A lot of hackers are asking for bitcoin, and that's a big worry of people in the space and regulators,» as Lorentzen says.

«I don't want people to think this is only a land of big business,» says Scott Carlberg, manager of the Carolinas» Nuclear Cluster.

Big insurance companies spend a ton of money trying to make people feel they're the best option.

Eric Roberge, a CFP and founder of Beyond Your Hammock, tells CNBC Make It that the biggest mistake most people make when saving for retirement is not taking advantage of their employer's 401 (k) match.

Typically, people need to invest about $ 500,000 to access an investment council — some of the bigger name firms include Gluskin Sheff and Leon Frazer & Associates — but fees are lower, about 1 % to 1.5 % of total assets, instead of a 2.5 % fee on an individual mutual fund, says Mackenzie.

Big hint: most of the interviews are with HR directors and VPs of HR — great people to reach out to if you're serious about a specific company.

Here's the story of ordinary people who fell into big ideas and took them all the way to the bank.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

People can not connect or relate to big numbers and dollars; the key is to provide results that are relative and quantifiable, within the grasp of your potential clients.

And as for that ship: To safely fit 100 people and protect them from dangerous solar radiation outside, it would have to be twice the size of the biggest spaceship ever built — the Saturn V, which transported astronauts to the moon.

«I'm a big believer that a lot of people have abilities that they don't really tap into because people around them are telling them that it's not good or impossible.»

With every Mars rendezvous we will be sending a Dragon — at least a Dragon to Mars, and ultimately the big spaceship — so if there are people that are interested in putting payloads on Dragon, you know you can count on a ship that's going to transport something on the order of at least 2 or 3 tons of useful payload to the surface of Mars.

Jun 25, 2013, Sam Stemler Maintain a positive attitude and voice; people get enough cynicism and negativity from their «friends,» which is a big reason why a large percentage of even apt social media users are unhappy with their networks.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

Independent developers — often just a handful of people and sometimes just a single individual — are popping up faster than mushrooms in a Super Mario game, and they're taking a big chunk of the pie through a thousand little slices.

There are many reasons that people fail to start something new or act now, but one of the biggest is a desire for credit (or, conversely, to avoid blame).

«In a year from now, what we want is for this not only to be nationally present, but something that people see as a big part of their every day lives,» Elliott says.

Staying upbeat is a big deal and Love146 only hires people who have a sense of humor.

If you had to name something, what would you say is the biggest misperception that people have of you?

And it's a break from the past: Gathering the 50 smartest people in an industry together in one room to talk shop is not necessarily something that would have happened during the highly competitive Mad Men era of big advertising.

«A lot of young people are looking for purpose and meaning, and to give them that sense of belonging is a big part of what a brand needs to do,» Song says.

The consulting that I was contracted to do for her was exciting and her company was making a big difference in the lives of people who really needed it.

«At Wazoku we are all about innovation and as a start - up we know that one of the biggest challenges faced by new businesses is getting seen and found by the right people.

The consumers are part of the big three credit bureau's estimate of 145.5 million people affected by the breach, a figure it marked up from an original September estimate of 143 million.

He described the families of people with such difficult diseases as «so close to breaking,» and said that «science is going to catch up... But a big piece of that is... changing the paradigm of [medicine], dealing with costs, and dealing with availability.»

As often as not, the biggest hurdle isn't even coming up with an elegant and cost - effective solution; it's getting people to accept the prospect of change and to adopt your answer to the problem.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

From humble beginnings to one of China's richest people, self - made billionaire Zhang Xin told «Managing Asia» in 2012 why wealth was not her biggest motivator.

Purpose: People want to be a part of something that is bigger than themselves.

«We knew that this is part of a bigger problem, which is the inequality that [black people] face,» he says.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

I wanted to get a sense of whether or not these sneakers were as comfortable and easy to fall in love with as other cult - favorites (Allbirds being the most obvious)-- specifically because the greatest indicator of a shoe becoming «the next big thing» is generally whether or not people actually like wearing them.

«One would assume the Apple TV is out on the market either to keep people locked into the Apple ecosystem or because they're still working on a way of somehow improving the attractiveness of it to get bigger adoption,» says Jeffrey.

One of the biggest problems that nonprofit organizations have is finding enough people to get the job done.

The challenging part of the problem, which was really the biggest opportunity, was how to make these people's jobs easier.

People want free markets — and the free flow of goods and services across borders — but they don't want to be told that other places are better places to do business, and they don't like the idea that another nation might grab a bigger share of corporate tax revenues.

«One of the biggest attractions of Invoke was that [people] could wind up getting hired in an agency and being employee number four or five at Hootsuite,» says Tedman, who is no longer involved in the company's day - to - day operations.

In a realm of swirling, incomprehensible big biological data — which is, perhaps, another way of thinking about the human body — the opportunity to use computer learning to better anticipate which drugs will work well (and not so well) in any one person is one we shouldn't pass up.

You need a great idea, technical resources, funding, good marketing, the right people and so on but the biggest factor determining the success of a venture is its people.

A simple rule such as, «always fill the tank before you return the car,» is easy to communicate to a big group of people at once.

However, a bigger question on the minds of many people is: Where is the best place to invest my money now that the Fed raised rates?

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

Its biggest source of revenue is a series of 8 - week long courses that costs $ 285 per person, with roughly 1,000 students enrolled at a time.

People are terrified of another dot - com collapse, but there's a big distinction between a bubble bursting and a market correction.

New Year's Eve is one of the biggest global celebrations, with people throughout the world coming together with family and friends to reflect on the prior year and get excited for the coming one.