This commentary isn't about the Writer Unboxed community, per se, nor about my bro Vaughn Roycroft and
the other great people who shepherd that group so faithfully, nor about the terrific writers who draw strength and aid from it.
As said by
other great people who realised their own potential, leadership is not a trumpet to self importance.
One of my favorite things about blogging outside of getting to share things with people that they find helpful and hopefully occasionally interesting is getting to know
some other great people who have blogs.
Not exact matches
Because of that, Dunbar feels we have different layers or slices of friends: One or two truly best friends (like your significant
other and maybe one
other person), then maybe 10
people with whom we have «
great affinity» and interact with frequently, and then all sorts of
other people we're friendly with but
who aren't actually friends.
You also have two interns
who could potentially handle the work — one has
great people skills and the
other is a fantastic writer.
«Creative
people who can't help but explore
other mental territories are at
greater risk, just as someone
who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone
who just walks along a village lane.»
«One of the
greatest gifts one can give a marriage is the recognition and acceptance that there are times when you're going to get it wrong... When you will lose the work - life balance; when you will share too little or too much; when you will lean too heavily while it was [the
other person]
who needed the rest.
The best way I can describe the
people we want is like this: There are some
people who throw
great dinner parties because they really want to take care of their guests, and there are
other people who are lousy at it because everything is a chore, everything is a problem.
Surely there are
other people who might have felt differently about what it's like to work at Yelp — perhaps some longtime employees or alumni
who had
great experiences working at the company.
The path to becoming a
great public speaker is the path to becoming comfortable with sharing
who you are with
other people, and a coach or mentor
who understands you personally can help push you toward this goal.
People who build great relationships don't just think about other p
People who build
great relationships don't just think about
other peoplepeople.
Zuckerberg and Sandberg have been happy to amass
great wealth and power relying upon
other people's money and the public's trust, but they do not want to be accountable to those
who supply the needed resources.
People who build
great relationships pay close attention so they can tell when
others are struggling.
«And when I look at my friends
who are running
other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really
great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have
people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.
So, identify those
people who are good team players, work well with
others and understand the benefits of
great teamwork.
So a good CEO is really
great at convincing
other people to get on board, even at changing
people's opinions,» writes Scoble,
who adds «a
great CEO is clear, crisp, concise.
I'm in the same boat as a few
other posters and I don't see it being a
great choice to lend to
people who aren't getting approved at larger banks.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the
other side [21:20]
Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with
people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What
people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
Some
people, he wrote, «are libertarians
who want government out of our lives,
others are liberals fighting the N.S.A.,
others find it
great fun to ding
people in power with cool hacks.»
This can be a
great income tax break for freelancers and
other self - employed
people and those
who travel a lot for work.
Initiatives like the Brooke Owens Fellowship and
other FSLF programs are a
great way for young
people to connect with professionals
who can serve as mentors, and
who have already demonstrated success within the modern aerospace industry.
One
great way to truly assess whether or not one of these business opportunities is legitimate is by requesting a list of
other people who have signed on.
«These are
people with really large ambitions
who are coming together to help each
other and to essentially create the next generation of
great companies from Canada.»
Many times a well thought out thank you can make the
other person feel
great about what they did for you, showcase to
others that you are someone
who understands gratitude, and also keep you
This is a
great opportunity for
people working part of the year
who are interested in filling their time off with an occasional call out to a spill response or
other marine response projects.
«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar,
who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker
who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of
others ---- said the novelist
who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him,
who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist
who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little
people ---- said all the little
people who wanted to hear of love, the
great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander
who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of
others.»
Rotarry International Club — Push button international Club Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation — Destroy the Blue Ridge Parkway Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation Motorcycle — Destroy the Blue Ridge Parkway on a Motorcycle Breast Cancer Awareness - Breast Cancer Ignorance Fire Fighter Rescue Squad - Arsonist Jeopardy Squad First In Forestry - Last in Earth Clearing Animal Lovers - Animal Haters Ducks Unlimited - Ducks With Limits Friends of Appalachian Trail -
People who Hate the Appalachian Trail Historic Lighthouse - Lighthouses of no significance Friends of
Great Smoky Mountains —
People who hate the
Great Smoky Mountains In God We Trust — In God We Distrust Knights of Columbus — Dames of Magellan Litter Prevention — Litter Encouragement National Wild Turkey Federation — National Domesticated Turkey Federation Native American — Imported American Save the Sea Turtle — Eat the Sea Turtle Olympic Spirit — The Olympics Stink SCUBA - Skydive Shag Dancing — Berber Dancing Share the Road - Hog the Road Sons of Confederate Veterans — Daughters of Union Veterans Square Dance Club - Circular Dance Club The V Foundation — Need foundations for all
other letters of the alphabet Tobacco Heritage — Lung Cancer Heritage US Navy Submarine Veteran — I never served in a Navy Sub Veterans of Foreign Wars — I never served in a foreign War Watermelon — This is against the first amendment unless all
other fruits have plates.
There are many
people on this Earth
who don't believe in God and are Good to
other people, and that is
great, but how have they treated God?
or Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, and countless
others who are famous and
great people for their advancements, including medical advancements that have allowed amazing
people like Hawking to live.
Announcing his resignation (below) to the world he said: «I believe we've made
great steps, with more
people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing
people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest
people in the world and enabling those
who love each
other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.»
It's a
great show if you're the sort of
person who enjoys watching stars congratulate each
other on doing a
great job.
I have
greater respect than ever for the
people who find the courage to help
others by telling their stories in Guideposts.
I completely agree with you in that your statement, «Almost all
great stories, novels, myths, and movies have as their core plot the idea of a
person who sacrificially gives of himself for
others, to rescue and deliver them from some calamity, and in so doing, suffers
great personal loss, but ultimately rises into glory,» is no coincidence.
We claim to honour the «least of these» and to be a
people who lay down power,
who believe that the
greatest is the servant, and that the way to really get ahead in the Kingdom of God is to put
others first, to amplify
other voices, to make room at the table.
And it does seem that some
people have lived charmed lives, they are born into
great families
who have guided them, given them every opportunity to succeed, have good health, and live to a ripe old age, while
others are born into poverty with lousy parents and live miserable lives.
For someone
who used to care so much about what
other people think, this has been tough, but it's been one of the
greatest learning experiences of my life.
We all will have to taste death and then raise on that day for accountability and there will be family reunion in heavens and outside of heavens where no one wish to be... what a
great loss for the one
who would be reunited outside of the heavens like the
people of Noah
who did not believe in him,
people of Lot did things that they were not supposed to do, pharaoh with his army and many more... on the
other hand Noah with the ones
who believed in him, Abraham and his family
who are submitted as Abraham submitted to The One God Almighty, Lot and his daughters and many more...
Thats
great I'd rather see
people with real sobriety standing up in public, being identified, and trying to help
others... I know thats crazy...
Who in the media is a testament to AA's ability to help us?
I, like most
other persons who attempt to engage in some kind of ojbective reasoning process, have
great doubt about the «mystical» elements of all religion.
Jesus talked about those
who were killed when Pilate «mixed their blood with their sacrifices», and
others who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them, and asked his hearers if they thought that these
people were
greater sinners than all
others because these things happened to them.
Could it be that God has given some
people more than
others, not so that they can feel extra special, or become puffed up about how
great of
people they are in God's eyes, or how wonderful their ministries are for the advancement of the Kingdom of God, but so that those to whom God has given more can use what they have to bless
others who have been given less, and in so doing, be blessed in
other ways in return?
In fact, in some cases, a
person who has
great power and authority has a need to be punished or dominated, as well as having issues of control or subjugation / degradation of the
other.
People who have left the church because they've gone down some sort of slippery ethical slope are not the ones talking about their experiences and sharing with
other Christians outside the church or even making it known that they ARE still Christians, but there are a
great many Christians
who don't go to a formal church service.
Jeremy why don't you look into open air campaigners organization for training they have a wonderful program for street outreach using a sketchboard and
other materials I had a friend
who used this approach on streets of new York city for 30 yrs had
great success OAC website is http://www.oacusa.org they have training and or you can go to major and get trained by one of their field
people
The treatment of
people outside Christianity was even worse, such as our treatment of «pagans»
who refused to convert to Christianity after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, or the Jews during most of Christian history, or
other religious groups in Germany and
Great Britain
who were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Christian armies, or the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans by imperialistic Christian settlers of the «New World.»
Ultimately, lesbian and gay
people within the church will make a
great contribution to construction of relational ethics and to evangelical outreach, which we pray will draw many
others who are estranged, alienated or unloved, to Jesus Christ, to the household of faith, and into the reconciliation which has begun.»
There is always an author, an editor, or a performer
who can represent every
person and every kind of life, thus creating a
great company of
others who remind one that he is not alone and
who give him assurance that what he does and approves is right.
Others,
who also see the situation only as a result of human failure, believe that ministers and schools have been deflected from their purpose and have lost their sense of mission because they have succumbed to the temptation to improve their personal and professional status by doing anything that might make them pleasing to the
greatest number of
people.
Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the
greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own
people; and, on the
other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the
great prophets
who follow him and
who, essentially, continue the work he began.
The ones still living would drop nukes on you, or overfly you with crop dusters loaded with radioactive liquids;
other than that, and the deaths of innocent
people who happen to live there,
great plan.