Sentences with phrase «other great thing i did»

The other great thing she did was offer to have the carrier sent directly to her so she could get Asher used to it and give it some smells of his siblings and home.

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A great leader, though, will do one thing that the others don't: he or she will make the people around and below better.

When you build a strong culture and vet for this in the recruiting process, that naturally happens - great people attract other great people, and collectively do great things.

The good news is that we all can turn our past failures and shortcomings into opportunities to grow our character, develop trust with others, and build leadership capacity to influence people to do great things.

Even if you had the best PowerPoint presentation in the world with great visuals, staged animation, and all the other cool things you can do with PowerPoint (I'd be lying if I said I didn't like all of that PowerPoint geeky stuff, too), it still is one in a line of many all using the same format and structure.

Being great at your job is one thing, but if you can motivate others to do the same, you'll quickly become invaluable.

Combined, they are the force behind the crazy things (other) people do and the great things we do.

Talk about the great things other team members did to pull off a successful project.

«As I've grown up and done a bunch of other things you learn that as an entrepreneur you still want to take great risks, but there are fantastic ways to manage downside and be paranoid about downside,» Sharples says.

«As a leader... your principal job is to create an operating environment where others can do great things.»

The thing is, it's easy to sit in judgement when supposed adults can't seem to put themselves in each other's shoes and work things out for the greater good, as we've all been taught to do... especially those in leadership positions.

And the other thing that great entrepreneurs do is make the right choices.

It's great to understand every aspect of your business, but be realistic — there are others who can do certain things a lot better than you.

[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?

Great women do things before they're ready — and they do them when they are empowered, inspired, and supported by other women.

It's a great thing that an individual can sit down and construct something and share it with millions of people around the world; almost nothing else other than code and technology gives you that ability to do that.

It's a great way to remind yourself of all the other things you wanted to do with your time that you didn't really get around to in your first attempt at retirement (since you really start yearning for them when you're busy working again.)

I FULLY believe in a creator and spiritual reality, but I think the GREAT creator, not the various imposters (Including the dieties of JEws, Muslims and Christians) who have fun watching us kill each other over theological syntax disagreements, has MUCH better things to do than have personal conversations with any of us, dumb blondes included.

The Gospel ends with the comment that Jesus did many other things that the author did not mention as doing so would be too great a task.

We have great things like food stamps (a horrible waste of tax dollars since majority of the people on them waste them, and could afford food if they did nt smoke, drink, or other things not needed for survival.)

Then free will, considered by the Bible the greatest gift of «God» and the thing that set humans above all His other creations does not exist.

Rather, it both rolls and glides — an ingenious combination that gives the knee a greater range of movement, enabling us to walk, skate, and do a host of other things.

Great post, and the really disproportionate thing about it is this is all done using the «law» demanding the tithe when not one New Testament book endorses this model (The reference in Hebrews was not to establish tithe as it was to establish Jesus in a different order, and his comments in the gospels was to people living under the law)... how is it that no other «law» is preached with the same force and conviction as tithing?

For those believers who understand this account of what they are doing, it leads to great tolerance of other groups doing their thing.

While I definitely agree that his response is great in many circumstances and (without knowing the context of that conversation) may have been the perfect thing to say at that moment, I think calling this statement «a template that can be used to respond to questions concerning sexuality, gender and other important issues» reduces a very complex issue down to a very simple response that doesn't really answer any questions for anyone.

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...

It may be a generational thing but while I think it is a great point to not view others as a resource, it does nt bother me at all to be seen as a resource.

It appears he is advocating for one, while doing the other — maybe, like a great many things, the appropriate action is contextual.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

fred, there are, of course, things that exist outside of you that have a great deal to do with what you are — other people, for example.

Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.

Some things are easier to believe than others, and so when someone does not even believe the simple and obvious things, they have little faith, whereas, when someone believes things that are difficult to believe, they have great faith (See my article, «Now That's Faith» for more.)

It is argued that one of the greatest things lacking in most of our churches is a sense of community, that we all belong, and are headed somewhere together — and actually enjoying each other's company as we do it!

Why are we bashing this symbol of hope, and a great thing this stranger did for others.

I do in a sense have faith but my faith lies in believing in things such as personal responsibility, values such as hard work, respect, and ethics such as charity and helping others (which I developed on my own out of my own choosing and I recieve my own satisfaction from doing not a belief in sucking up to an invisible man in the sky for «great reward» after I die).

It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.

I say severe, because in doing these things, I caused Great Harm to others and myself.

He will be reminded of what that simple old sage remarked in ancient times, «When they meet together, and the world sets down at an assembly, or in a court of law, or a theater, or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there is a great uproar and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands, and the echo of the rocks and the place in which they are assembled redoubles the sound of the praise or blame — at such a time will not a young man's heart, as they say, leap within him?

But what every man has not a right to do, is to make others believe that faith is something lowly, or that it is an easy thing, whereas it is the greatest and the hardest.

Rapist and abusers go to great lengths to look like that kind of person who others can safely «believe they wouldn't do such at thing.»

doubtful jesus ever lived, no good evidence if he ever did live, he didn't do any magic tricks from the bible, he was just a cult leader the fictional character of jesus said some great things about love, but also supported slavery and other awful things

Gary: To do a thing apart from His Spirit is just self works: It is not in and by The Faith of the Son of God: Paul said; he lives by the Faith of the Son of God, that comes with the in workings of the Holy Spirit: Even as Paul says; follow me as am of Christ: This was Paul commission: Little Children I labour in birth again until Christ be formed in you, this takes us from self works into the in workings of the Holy Spirit, that we too are conformed into the image and likeness of Christ, as Christ is formed in us: Even as it was with Peter's commission, Peter when thouest is converted convert thine brethren: But we can see many left Jesus and Paul when it can time for the strong meat to be had: So too is it in each generation: The great falling away, that only the faithful remain: Thank - you Gary; In Jesus name Alexandria: P.S. if Peter or Jesus or Paul would stand here today in your presence and speak forth what they spoke forth then, would you truly receive them??? Now it is the Christ in us that comes forth to minister the Words of the Lord through others as they: That is why Christ is not divided, those of the same Spirit will know because we speak the same things in and by His Holy Spirit:

He did a great thing for African Americans, that doesn't mean he wasn't wrong on other stuff.

I'm all for «getting out of your own way», and «doing things for the greater good», and «don't take yourself too seriously», and «put yourself in other's shoes», and the Golden Rule.

MM: The other thing I did go into in my study, is this great fallacy of the bifurcation of nature.

Now when [many] others came in crowds about him, for they were very greatly moved [or pleased] by hearing his words, Herod, who feared lest the great influence John had over the people might put it into his power and inclination to raise a rebellion, (for they seemed ready to do any thing he should advise,) thought it best, by putting him to death, to prevent any mi - schief he might cause, and not bring himself into difficulties, by sp - aring a man who might make him rep - ent of it when it would be too late.

Catholic churches do not support gay marriage, and they're not the only ones, that does not mean they do not do alot of other great things for their communities, they help alot of people by giving away food and clothes and providing a sense of community.

It know it will always be hard to describe what exactly you do or exactly who you are, but form the blog and your creative environment and your definitions and words and visuals and job description and personal profile to you (not the other way around), and don't worry about people misunderstanding or misreading or thinking it is something else or expecting something more or less, that will always happen and that very thing, in fact, proves to be the greatest opportunity to learn to communicate better and more clearly (at least for me).

Inside was a card with the service schedule on one side and a message on the other: «Do you know that God's love can and does achieve great things, even amid the turmoil of today's world?»

There is nothing wrong with loving our country and wanting great things for it, as long as that desire does not come at the expense of other needy people.