Sentences with phrase «of learning something about»

If you approach each new potential relationship with the goal of learning something about yourself, the experience won't have been wasted.

Such an approach is absurd; all of us who came to this symposium with the end in mind of learning something about Whitehead and something about educational evaluation are proof of that.

Not exact matches

On this podcast episode of «School of Greatness,» be prepared to learn something about yourself and the power you have to change the world.

Around Target's first anniversary, the marketing team proposed an «apology» campaign of sorts — something to acknowledge that the company had learned a lot about Canadians during its year of operation, and that it was seeking to improve the shopping experience.

Creating the company of your dreams often begins with learning more about something completely new to you.

You will learn something, you will be excited about, and you will jump out of bed.

Isn't it about time you devote some of your browsing time to learning something new?

That's when I learned a little something about the $ 5 note: On the back, which prominently features an illustration of the Lincoln Memorial, there are 26 states listed across the top of the building.

According to the Harris Poll's most recent «Reputation Quotient» study, 60 % of consumers surveyed had decided not to do business with a company because of something they learned about how the company conducts itself.

Something that has always deeply fascinated me is learning about the journey that has helped in the development of a majorly successful company get to where they are now.

It is also, naturally, yet another opportunity for university leaders to learn something about leadership themselves; unfortunately, that lesson must take the form of learning - by - painfully - doing.

«But I was willing to take a leap of faith based on something I was deeply passionate about that put me into a position to learn, grow and ascend to where I am today.»

It's all about: Can you teach me something new, give me lots of opportunities to learn and shine and make the work (however brief) rewarding.»

In this edition of the CB Elevator Pitch, editor James Cowan suggests that Finance Minister Joe Oliver could learn something about product launches — which, in a modern media context is exactly what this federal budget is — from the master of the marketing pitch, Steve Jobs.

If you're like me, you may have noticed an interesting phenomenon in the last year or two: more and more of your colleagues have mentioned a business - centric podcast that you ought to check out, or you've overheard others talking about something they learned from a podcast.

ON THE VALUE OF SURROUNDING ONESELF WITH TALENTED PEOPLE If you're in an environment where you're not learning as much as you think you should be, if you don't have the people around you who you think are going to inspire you to do the best work that you can, then think about changing something.

So instead of dismissing something like DrumPants as being hipster chic and vaguely useless, take the time to learn about it and dream up ways it might help you better your bottom line.

Outdoor adventure activities have a way of allowing us to learn something about each other that's just not possible in other settings.

Hoping to learn something about how the human body defends itself against cancer, he had zeroed in on a complex regiment of lymphocytes called T cells, common to the immune systems in both mouse and man.

«Our customers are shopping not so much because of a desire to buy something as they are engaged in learning about what's new, meeting interesting people and hearing their stories,» he says.

Almost half of all Reddit users said that they learned something news - worthy about the presidential campaign from the site in a given week.

«If you read The Remains of the Day, which is my favorite book of all time, you can't help but come away and think, I just spent 10 hours living an alternate life and I learned something about life and about regret.»

Mr. Williams: It's not something we've done at scale, but it's definitely something we've done — mostly to learn about the needs of both sides.

«You will learn something, you will be excited about it, and you will jump out of bed.

Anyone who has learned about the fundamentals of content marketing knows the concept isn't all that complicated — consistently provide something of relevant value to your target audience in the hope it will ultimately return the favor in kind.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Mystery shopping (click on the link to learn more about it in a post that I wrote) is something that I used to do a great deal of.

Diane Abbott also tweeted that one of the lessons to be learned from the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire is that «fire puts out water,» and called for the UK government to do something about the drought in the province of Davao del Norte in Indonesia, which is actually located in the Philippines.

I always enjoy reading the letters of investment managers with long term records of success; whether it's a new investment idea or perhaps a new ways of thinking about the economy, markets, psychology, risk or market history, there is always something to learn.

I can't count the number of times when I'm looking at something and pick up the phone and talk to [one of our CEOs] and if it's in any one of their adjacent industries, they know more about it in 15 minutes than an investor can learn in a lifetime.»

Even looking at Glassdoor or something similar to learn what former employees are saying is invaluable information to have, because quite frankly, if you're going to approach employee advocacy blindly without even a sense of what your employees feel about the company, then a tool might even be a bad thing.

How about peter Cashmore of mashable, Markus fried of plenty of fish they are not hard core affiliate marketers they are just give their readers, helping them to learn something new, engage and meet new people like Markus is doing and the end result is they are the top adsense earners in the world making more than any other so - called pro bloggers in the world.

How about you not be such a d i c k to someone that did something nice for someone and learn from their example instead of belittling it?

Think of what we learn from the stories of Flannery O'Connor, a lesser writer than Twain, certainly, but one who knew something very important about the world he didn't.

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

This week I learned about something you might already be familiar with: Bloom's Taxonomy of thinking skills.

There are so many things to learn about God and His desires for us, that getting caught up on the Holy Trinity and explaining it as something scientific can take us away from the glory of His creation.

IF you want to criticize another religion please learn something about it first, because you'd be amazed at how similar all of them are.

From my teacher's college days I remember something about how, even if it is a foundational, levelling sort of thing, often enough these levels are joined or partnered for solid learning.

Because science has kind of proven or talked about all those things you were just asking... maybe pick up a book other than a work of fiction and learn something that's real and tangible.

Most people like to see their content accessed widely and so can learn some great tips (as well as read some good content) from these blogs, but «most popular» doesn't always mean «best» I'd say that for any blogger a key to judging your own success is to think about the purpose and intended audience of you blog — if you have a niche audience in a specific location you may not get a huge following but if you set out to acheive something worthwhile through your blog and you achieve it then that counts as success.

By that I don't mean you have to take on any of the perceived baggage of the name, just that you are starting from a point of neutrality on the god - issue like we hopefully start from neutrality any time we don't know something and want to learn about it.

I wanted to learn something about the unique brand of Hinduism practiced there.

I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with women he called «co-workers.»

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

Not just a «lifehack» or a bit of trivia but actually learned a new skill, or compelling new interpretation of Scripture or — God forbid — something that actually changed your mind about a long - held belief?

There are many sermons that you can listen to and learn Jesus» wisdom... instead of being a pompous vain jerk, believing you know something about life, to find out you know nothing but your vain imagination.

Here are some sample comments which reflect a prevalent appreciation of AA among ministers: «The church could learn something about real fellowship from AA.

We wonder whether something of what he learned as he witnessed the smoke rising from Sodom and Gomorrah may have prepared Abraham for his greatest trial, enabling him to respond without so much as a peep of protest about the suffering of the innocent when God asks him to become not just an accomplice in the death of Lot but an actual killer of his own beloved son.

Piper is essentially arguing that so long as he does not have to acknowledge my humanity, so long as I keep a safe distance so he is unaware of the pitch of my voice and the presence of my breasts, he can, perhaps, learn something about the Bible from me.