Sentences with phrase «of hard lives in»

Terse, spare and grimly poetic, Winter's Bone paints a vivid picture of hard lives in a place where love is scarce and tenderness is viewed as weakness.

Poignant evocations of hard lives in a cruel — indeed, fallen — world resulted.

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As much as recent efforts to encourage women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of science has often made life for women scientists harder than it already is — excluding them from clubby publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.

But the jobs that require math skills and social skills — communication, working with others, all of these things you're supposed to learn in kindergarten, those end up being valuable because they're very hard to reduce to code or assign on a spec sheet to people living overseas.

The clients I know who have succeeded on the platform usually devote a significant amount of time and resources to properly listing their products, understanding the nuances of the company's fulfillment and other services, participating in campaigns that have questionable profitability, analyzing reams of data that the service spits out in order to make adjustments to its prices and branding and working hard to live up to Amazon's stringent customer service guidelines.

«Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do,» Michelle Obama said in 2008.

«This social contract between employer and employee basically said, «If you come to work every day, and you work hard, and you give the corporation a measure of loyalty, we in turn will take care of you, often for the rest of your life, by extending healthcare and generous pensions to retirees.»»

But it's hard to remember a week like this one, with so many terrible reminders that we live in an era of always - on, real - time media — and just how chaotic and complicated and disturbing that can be.

In her memory, we devote our actions to a just cause; to defend what is right and to protect the interest of not only shareholders but most importantly the far more important stakeholders of employees, drivers and customers whose lives have been forever altered by the abiding faith and fervent hard work of Travis Kalanick and the Uber team.

«We've got a lot of hard - working people with knowledge of fintech who are not costing as much as they would in other cities because of the living costs.

The hard workers in life, void of entitlement, are the people who succeed at the highest levels.

I don't have any hard data to back this up, but I'm increasingly getting the feeling that if you were to inform yourself of what's going on in the world solely by using Twitter, you'd probably go through life as a very angry individual.

But that same hard work and tenacity could be applied to boosting our credit score in anticipation of a major life event.

Most corporate directors find it hard enough to confront a respected CEO about work - related poor performance, but it is even harder to tip - toe into the minefield of rumours about problems in an executive's personal life.

Nothing really good comes easily in life, and most self - made multimillionaires will tell you eagerly that their success required lots of hard work.

Giordano spoke before hundreds of people gathered at a college in Santa Rosa, one of the hardest - hit cities, for a memorial service to honor the lives lost in the deadliest series of wildfires in California history.

She added, «But in the context of relative privilege, when you talk about work - life balance, the moms who don't have health care aren't called hard workers.

I learned this the hard way when I tried to rattle off some pull ups after years of sedentary living and quickly tore a muscle in my shoulder.

They were debt - free, and after years of hard work, frugal living, and the sale of a previous home Tuttle had owned in England, they had a down payment ready.

In my four years of startup life, I've had the opportunity to experience a few hard - learned lessons that many entrepreneurs would do well to avoid.

Inserting more of these hard - to - adapt - to experiences in your life will create longer lasting happiness.

Not only will these experiments provide you with valuable feedback on whether you'll really enjoy that new life you're eyeing for yourself, but they're also mercifully small and doable — it's hard to tie yourself up in knots of fear and procrastination when the initial step is so tiny.

Actually confronting the balance of tech in their lives day to day and doing the hard work of building healthier habits despite the temptations of their gadgets would likely suit these folks better.

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.

It is a Sliding Doors tale of a couple of life events that lifted Vance and propelled him to cross socioeconomic lines that are increasingly harder to pierce in the United States.

2016 has been a year of total disruption; it's been a hard, mean reminder of how extremely unpredictable the time we live in is.

If you live your life at Starbucks and move through an Uberized economy where an extra buck or two (for access, speed or convenience) is a drop in the bucket, it's hard to imagine the daily struggles of millions of moms trying to make ends meet.

Forbes» Garrett Gunderson attests that this sturdy principle changed his life: «In hard times, when every extra penny went to sustaining my business, I still found a way to stick 15 percent of my income into our personal savings account every single month.

It's in applying the lessons and learnings from the book to your own life and circumstances — and then doing the hard work of taking responsibility for, and true ownership of, your stories — where the change starts and the results begin to show.

In my attempt to find solutions and coping strategies to help me raise my son, who suffers from a severe mental illness, and in dealing with a lot of setbacks along the way, I've discovered a formula for overcoming life's inevitable hard knocks: Courage plus resilience equals triumpIn my attempt to find solutions and coping strategies to help me raise my son, who suffers from a severe mental illness, and in dealing with a lot of setbacks along the way, I've discovered a formula for overcoming life's inevitable hard knocks: Courage plus resilience equals triumpin dealing with a lot of setbacks along the way, I've discovered a formula for overcoming life's inevitable hard knocks: Courage plus resilience equals triumph.

From an anecdotal standpoint, I've known a large number of successful people, most of whom earned it the hard way but some of whom were raised by wealthy families, and those who went further in their careers and were happiest with their lives were the former, not the latter.

In the world of venture capital, money is easy to come by — it's the ideas, and the people who can bring those ideas to life, that are hard to find.

(Green has also acknowledged, in what sounds like a nod to the workplace obstacles she faced,» «We Try Harder» is somewhat the story of my life.»)

Like many things in life, you want to do the hard work of building relationships before you need help.

The executive vice president of development and acquisitions at The Trump Organization and head of the Ivanka Trump lifestyle brand tells Business Insider that you need to work especially hard early in your life to find and foster your passions so that you can love what you do.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easieIn all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easiein a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easiein the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

In this quick video, the business and life strategist shares a simple technique for making sure a healthy portion of your hard - earned profits are sacredly set aside, specifically to help you build your long - term wealth.

«Once you get used to the standard of living here, I find it hard to see myself working for the rest of my life in the United States,» he said.

It's hard enough to get ahead in spite of all the obstacles you'll face throughout your life and your career.

I have found that readers love statistics, counterintuitive results, and real - life stories, so I try hard to ensure that I get at least two out of three of these items in all of my content, whether it's a book, a magazine article, or an online column or blog post.

Cover Story The U.S. Marines are looking for the few, the proud — people who can scale walls, strike hard with lightning speed, and make life - or - death decisions in the heat of battle.

It's hard to tell how many do this — I know of a few politically engaged Liberals who periodically hold Tory membership cards too — but it's a fact of life for those of other political stripes in a one - party province like Alberta: the political direction of the province is decided at the PC leadership conventions, not in general elections.

«Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents.

In a letter to customers last week, Tim Cook, the company's chief executive, said: «We mourn the loss of life and want justice for all those whose lives were affected,» saying that the company has «worked hard to support the government's efforts to solve this horrible crime.»

All of which may sound a bit touchy feely to the more hard - nosed entrepreneurs, but le Menestrel insists contemplating your overall dreams for your life is of real practical benefit to business people in three key ways.

But for most of us, we work harder and longer hours than ever before, believing that by doing so, we'll find the happiness and success we want in our lives.

I am now at a point in life where I can be proud of my years of hard work, but I know that I would be only half as far had I not crafted a dream list.

Although they're «one of the more expensive areas» in biopharmaceuticals, since «you are literally saving people's lives, the payers have a harder time pushing back and lowering the price,» said Michael Rich, who provides health - care coverage for Eagle Asset Management's Equity Income team.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

«It's hard making change, it's hard making change as a woman, it's hard being a woman in some of the organizations and some of the worlds that we live in.»