Sentences with phrase «old work friends»

When we were back home in Utah we visited some of our old work friends.

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College was never in the cards for this Florida kid who got a head start on his friends and went into the work force at 18 years old, and started fixing and racing cars on the side.

Maoli knew logistics, but he needed extra help forming those personal connections, so he called an old friend — Gary Gabriele, a hospitality prodigy who had worked his way up from dishwasher to general manager of a local hotel franchise by the age of 21 — and asked him to run Flash's customer service.

He set up his first collision repair shop (complete with a paint booth) in an old chicken barn and did work for friends and family.

An old friend once said, «In order to be lucky you have to work very hard,» and he's right.

Fashion designer Michael Kors, an old friend of Lauder's, talks about her motivation and her cousin William Lauder, the executive chairman of the Estee Lauder group, talks about how working hard is in the Lauder DNA.

Having proved his ability to handle crystal ball work, Buffett, 86, was asked by this writer — an 87 - year - old friend of his — whether he might care to make a prediction about total returns over the 17 years starting now and ending late in 2033.

If the person he engaged was an old friend or a work colleague, he might ask them an unexpected question.

The latest pits his 61 - year - old daughter, Shari Redstone, whose relationship with her father had run hot and cold over the years but who's recently worked her way back into his life, against two of her father's longtime friends and lieutenants, Viacom board member George Abrams and C.E.O. Philippe Dauman.

My old friend HZ sends me this pic, from the first 100 days of the Obama admin, when the job market and GDP were falling off a cliff and the new President, VP, econ and legislative teams were working around the clock to try to arrest the slide (as was the Fed, of course).

There is opportunity for everybody, no matter where you live, you just have to be willing to work harder (and smarter) than everyone else, while my many of my friends in college worked at McDonald's and partied, I started my own custom harvesting business with loan for a 10 year old combine, and an old tandem axle truck.

«An old friend of Scripture Union, HRH's passion for work with children and young people, rooted in his leadership of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme, was infectious and he loved meeting both our staff and some of the teenagers we work with.

We see these scenes repeated throughout life: in a friend's confession of her deepest secret, as an estranged family member asks for forgiveness for an old, hurtful action, or perhaps even in strangers — as we pass a man with a cardboard sign and a tattered blanket every day on the way to work.

Scorsese and DiCaprio are old friends and working buddies, so having Scorsese on board could help lure DiCaprio, who generally stays away from popcorn fare unless he's really sure it'll be good (like Inception) or has a close relationship with the filmmaker (like The Great Gatsby.)

For instance, a twenty - eight - year - old mother in the same study, like many other respondents, pointed to «my family and my children primarily, and my careers» Another person answered, «my child, my friends, my hobbies, and mostly my work; they give me a sense of achievement.»

The truth is, making new friends — and maintaining old ones — takes work.

The key way to do that is with faith - based initiatives that work with the soul and then build relationships so that when [prisoners] get out, they won't go to the same old group of friends who helped drag them down.

Then occasionally my old, pragmatic activist friends say to me, But why are you not out there on the street working to change the world?

Hugh Brogan's Alexis de Tocqueville is a masterful work, the fruit of nearly a half - century of labor on «an old friend,» as Brogan calls Tocque - ville.

But he remains an «old friend» to political philosophers as well as to historians, and if a study is to make sense of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the work that Tocqueville undertook must be understood in all its depth and breadth» beyond what the historian, or even the psychologist, may say.

Now that we're back in Boston, I'm looking forward to relaxing with Nate and my parents, working remotely for a few days, meeting up with friends, and going to some of my old favorite places!

While the company will be a new one, my coworkers, for the most part, will be old friends from my previous job — if one must work for a living, one truly couldn't ask for a better situation.

And finally, it is always so wonderful to read all the posts one after another... reminds me of all my old friends and the chatter we would have over a recipe and how each one works it differently or whatever... I take away much more than the recipe form your site!

Our two year - old loves this gluten free meatloaf so much she actually asks for it, and my husband raved about it, then took half the loaf to work with him so he could share it with friends.

The 42 - year - old Poughkeepsie, N.Y., native has worked every job the industry has to offer, cultivated a vast network of friends and admirers, and radiates the kind of megawatt charisma that launches political careers (or cults).

Founded by then 17 - year - old Fred DeLuca and family friend Dr. Peter Buck more than 52 years ago, Subway is still a family - owned business, working with more than 21,000 dedicated franchisees in communities around the world.

The new menu provides a fun environment for unwinding after work with colleagues, catching up with old friends, and of course making new ones.

Lots of early morning meetings, presentations, phone calls overseas, offsite meetings, after work dinners, juggling the dogs, seeing old friends, and trying to stick to our 5:30 am workouts.

Simeone is said to have very close ties with his fomer Serie A club and old friends of his that are still working there, but does this mean that Arsenal should forget about the Argentinean as a possible replacement for the prof?

Will Charlotte work together with her old two friends, who she turned on long, long ago, to stop Nia Jax?

On Oct. 9, 1998, four days after being charged with sexually assaulting two of his players during overnight stays at his house, Davidson, a 41 - year - old bachelor, sent off a letter to parents of his players proclaiming his innocence while keening in despair: «No money, no baseball, no friends, never again working with kids.»

In making the leap to the NFL, 20 - year - old Texans rookie Amobi Okoye and other marquee 2007 first - round draft picks are discovering the value of hard work, intense study and a few good friends

WWE's Money in the Bank event is right around the corner, you know, and Bálor has some old friends working a feud against John Cena at the moment...

But Wagner tried such a tactic at Anfield against his old friend Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool and it didn't work.

I completely understand how you feel and as a 48 year old female feel exhausted by dating, just need my own space and keeping busy with friends family and work is enough.

The mother in my friend's neighborhood whose 7 year old is completely unsupervised from 3:00 pm until 6:30 pm when the mother gets home from work, because she can't / won't pay for after school care.

According to a 29 - year - old Minnesota man currently enrolled in a four year college and working full time, being friends with his future wife for several years made it possible for them to know what they were «dealing with» within their relationship.

My friend Jaime sent me this quick tip that was in Seventeen magazine (even though I am about 10 years older then 17 Ha - Ha)... and it totally worked!

When I asked her recently how it's going, she laughed (something she does often and genuinely) and said that she and her friend, author Ann Patchett, whose surgeon husband is 16 years older, always say that if they can't make their marriages — a second for both — work with these men who so clearly adore them, then no one can make marriage work.

Maybe a trusted friend, a relative, or an older father you know has some good insights, based on what worked for him.

My friend did this with her three year old and it worked really well during the day.

I have worked (and been friends with) both «younger» and «older» parents and frankly have seen little correlation between the age (or even planning) of parenthood and a parent's responsiveness or choice to employ AP principles.

And, he's old enough that he can understand that moms and dads work, and that his work is to play with his friends at childcare (or the babysitter if you're having a babysitter who comes to you).

Back before Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter there were not really many places where you could look up and find old friends without some leg work.

Sharing that she and fellow author and friend Ann Patchett both had older husbands who absolutely adored them (Patchett's second husband is 16 years older than she), she said they often joked that if they couldn't make their marriages work, well, no marriage would work.

My friend's baby is 3 - months - old and she recently returned to work, so she needed to find a great bottle system that her son would like.

He worked tirelessly as a member of the local Kiwanis, the Orland Park Lions, the village's Recreation Advisory Board, Friends of the Library, the Veterans of Foreign War Post 2604, the American Legion Post 118, the Boy Scouts, the Orland Park Veterans» Commission, the Wabash Historical Society and the Old Orland Heritage Foundation.

I was interested, but figured it would be too much work with twins, but my friend is ECing her son when she has a 3 - year - old to chase, so it is possible.

Many of the people involved in this year's bumper Rhino Fest are what festival organizer Beau O'Reilly refers to as «our old friends doing new work.»

And I work to create some one - on - one time at other, less crazy times to meet with beloved friends and family — especially the older folks who, I find, often crave baby time (to see the way their eyes light up is enough to bring me to tears, so to share this squishy newborn stage with them is a joy).