Sentences with phrase «of the high achievement of»

As individuals and as a community it is our aim to do our best and we are very proud of the high achievement of our pupils.

As Sanders has pointed out, Jonas Mekas declared the Yellow Movies at the time of their creation «one of the high achievements of the art of cinema.»

Not exact matches

According to well - established research lasting motivation does not happen with incentives, but rather when employees (1) feel a sense of achievement, (2) have choice and the ability to participate on their own terms, (3) have opportunities to interact with others, (4) feel connected to a higher purpose, and (5) have fun.

And given the high cost of college and the huge gaps in achievement between those who make the most of their time as undergrads and those who flounder, the stakes for getting it right are pretty high.

From the software wars between tech heavyweights Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, to the grueling matches between tennis greats Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, to the fraught, acrimonious relationship between Earnest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, rivalry has incited staggeringly high levels of achievement from individuals and organizations across industries.

Motivation is high because employers are rewarding several types of activities: 48 percent offer it at program enrollment; 46 percent offer it upon achievement of health outcome; and 60 percent of employer offer incentives at the completion of a program.

But a bit of swagger, self - confidence and a clear vision of its past achievements — and future aims — could pull it through, according to the continent's most high - profile business, economic and political leaders.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know neither victory nor defeat.

Past achievements range from the parochial (a City of Alexandria Beautification Award) to the high profile (an American Association of Nurserymen Award, hosted by the White House).

The scientists behind these studies all seem to agree on the answer: rather than view narcissism as an evil to be always avoided, organizations should strive to understand that small doses of the characteristic are often inseparable from high achievement and make rational cost - benefit analyses.

But in the meantime, Trump's disapproval ratings remain persistently high, major legislative achievements have yet to come through and his habit of engaging in Twitter tirades makes even many of his supporters uncomfortable.

This will give you a sense of achievement and keep motivation high.

The highest alumni honour at the Haskayne School of Business, the Management Alumni Excellence Award recognizes the outstanding success of Haskayne alumni, celebrating their personal achievements and extraordinary service to both the school and the community.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

This award, the school's highest alumni honour, recognizes the outstanding success of Haskayne alumni, celebrating personal achievement and extraordinary service to both the school and the community.

[1:20] How the kindness of a stranger changed Tony's life [3:35] Peter Diamandis talks about the origins of X Prize [6:30] Technology helping the agricultural industry [7:00] Sequencing genomes [8:55] Life - work integration [11:15] Finding your highest calling in life [12:00] Reframing what is «impossible» [14:00] Strategy vs. psychology [15:00] Changing your state [16:00] The science of achievement, the art of fulfillment [19:00] Living in a beautiful state [24:00] Thinking 10x bigger [28:00] Surrounding yourself with a «nothing is impossible» community [29:00] The news pollutes your mind [31:00] Tony's natural gifts and core beliefs [33:30] Overcoming failure and criticism [37:45] Defining your environment [40:00] Life happens for you, not to you [42:00] Rituals and practices to up your game [46:30] Tony's priming process

Danone's excellent financial performance earned him a spot in the top 10 % of this year's sample (a truly amazing achievement for a consumer goods company); at the same time, the company received extremely high ratings from MSCI.

Directors must have a history of achievements that reflect high standards for themselves and others, enabling them to contribute to the superior performance of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Board.

The incumbent achievement comes as TCS shares soared to an all - time high buoyed by the strong surge of 4.5 % in its Q4 net profit.

Admission to the program is based on criteria that ensure high standards of academic quality and student achievement, as well as diversity.

We believe high ethical standards are essential to the achievement of our individual and corporate goals.

It is truly a very proud moment for APG - Neuros, manufacturer of high efficiency turbo blowers, to highlight an important milestone this year with the achievement -LSB-...]

Through its 10 Provincial and Territorial Institutes, SCMA grants the Supply Chain Management Professional (SCMP) designation, the highest achievement in the field and the mark of strategic supply chain leadership.

Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»

He has a position on the board of the student achievement and has the vision to start building smaller high schools to alleviate some of the stress that is placed on the public schools due from overcrowding and a shortage of money.

Individualistic countries value individual effort and achievement and thus are in favor of redistribution of family wealth toward creating more equal economic opportunities, independent of the social context (i.e., wealth of the family) into which one is born, which legitimizes high inheritance taxes.

They are at once chastened by the pettiness of their worldly loves — and elevated by a sense of divine transcendence that unites them not just with Christ, but also with the highest achievements of Russian culture.

The frustrations of career expectations — a common midlife phenomenon — seems to be aggravated by the belief that achievement (poorly defined) will be rewarded by upward mobility — presumably, appointments to churches with larger memberships and higher salaries.

A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

• Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Lady Murasaki: Needless to say, The Tale of Genji is the greatest literary achievement of the glorious Heian period of Japanese high culture, and one of the greatest novels ever written, and so I win no points for needless obscurity here, but having recommended Lady Sarashina's journal above, I would be remiss in failing to recommend Lady Murasaki's equally (but very differently) lovely collection of vignettes and meditations and acute observations (and gossip).

The achievement is a big deal, and Longo told the magazine that even through high school, she had to prove the doubters wrong, «I got a lot of negativity, and people saying I couldn't do it.

In the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is living bread and water for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of souls.

This is the voice of a peasant hope for the future, a voice that is not impressed with high towers and great arenas, banks and urban achievements.

Her drive for achievement and high level aspiration are thus a type of «busy work» — a method of filling up her life with a lot of things about which she, can feel or express concern even though she realizes they are rather unimportant.

Our chief resource for the overcoming of sin and the achievement of this higher destiny is fellowship with God in prayer.

The person comes forth with self - respect adequate to almost any situation, with the respect for others that this competent self - respect entails, with the dignity that benefits the high achievement of competent personality, and with the freedom of personal initiative that represents a comfortable adaptation of one's personal situation to the circumstances that characterize the social order of which one is a part.

The religion of the mind ties you hopelessly to the past; the religion of the spirit consists in progressive revelation and ever beckons you on toward higher and holier achievements in spiritual ideals and eternal realities.

The concern is not to inculcate Christian humility, for that entails driving the gifted beyond the horizons of their surpassing abilities toward the vision of an achievement higher still.

Jim, atheists, as a group, have higher IQs and greater levels of scholastic achievement than do religious people.

The higher possibilities of human achievement are a gift from past human achievements, favorably ordered, where the human past includes both the previous activities of the individual in question and the communities of individuals to whom she or he relates.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

It is astonishing to hear even people of high achievement and excellent reputation use mean and foul language on many occasions, as though such effusions had no real significance, being mere sounds which are dispersed as soon as they are said.

Specialization is regarded as a means for increasing the individual's qualitative excellence of achievement and for making possible higher forms of cultural life through the organization of differentiated skills.

Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

From our freedom comes our human responsibility, which makes us persons instead of things and opens the door to all the highest achievements of the human spirit.

This has produced a rather dreary and pessimistic picture of human nature and the tendency to consider its higher values and achievements as derived only from the lower drives, through processes of reaction formation, transformation, and sublimation.

The effort may be present at lowly levels of achievement; the quality itself is never fully present at the highest, since «no one is good [in the absolute sense] except God alone.»

It's a little hard not to be slightly biased when one side of the political spectrum is filled with a group of fanatical evangelicals whose highest achievement was passing the 4th grade.

In April this year, said Heyman, «World Productions, Britain's leading producer of drama, was awarded the British Academy of Film and Television Arts» Special Achievement Award for consistently high standards of programming and for the encouragement of new talent.»