Sentences with phrase «own mythology»

This whole mythology around startups where you're working all night is completely unhealthy.

Environmentalists have long seen the propagation of lies, piles of bullshit, the dismissal of science, and the creation of mythologies as a consistent core of corporate misbehaviour - and, unfortunately, conservative ideology.

His struggle to become the god of war was often told through fighting off hordes of monsters (based in Greek mythology), often in small arenas — you enter an area, the exits are sealed, and you must fight your way through groups of enemies until they're all dead and you can progress.

Back then, the Starbucks logo was a brown print of a woodcut illustration of a topless siren from Greek mythology.

Their deaths are supposed be rewarded with an eternal visit to Valhalla, the heavenly place that is a central aspect of both Norse and War Boy mythology.

Steve Jobs reigning over Apple, Bill Gates towering over the giant that is Microsoft and Richard Branson stylized in his cape throughout the veins of Virgin — this kind of mythology and idealization of the single hero in business has spurred a new wave of entrepreneurs who call themselves «solopreneurs.»

The «hero's journey» mythology of famous, successful founders always describes the way they ignored everyone who said their idea would never work.

It's a reality check laying bare true possibility while laying aside the mythologies of command and control too many organizations and leaders tell themselves.

The added mythology that the elephants are seen as gods by the other animals adds gravitas to the scene.

The three points of the triangle represent the Christian mythology of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The mythology surrounding ecoterrorism makes it hard to pin down how much of it actually happens.

I'd encourage you to watch this quick three - minute video with some views on what I call «The Co-Founder Mythology» that is perpetuated in Silicon Valley.

In Greek mythology, Zeus, among other things, throws lighting bolts like javelins to strike people down.

(Avnet said the studio created a real website to build a mythology for the film's titular «Sickhouse,» a fictional home they gave a frightening backstory, while encouraging the movie's stars to casually drop mentions of the fake legend in the days leading up to the Snapchat release.)

«Salaries are one of the last great taboos, and like anything that's taboo, once you puncture it and deflate the mythology, it doesn't seem so special anymore.»

This archetype is part and parcel of our national character and it is important to hold fast to this mythology to inspire our next generation of Coopers as we confront the new frontier of space.

It's more a politically charged mythology than solid law or common business practice.

Ward, says Cunningham, «alludes to the Old Testament and Greek mythology with equal frequency and intensity; for her, Katrina is comparable in significance to the Egyptian captivity or the aftermath of the Trojan War.»

Because the image of this farm boy from Smaland — hardworking, thrifty, with all this mythology around him, close to the common folk... the Kamprad sons, who grew up in a very different world, don't represent that at all.

In the mythology of «Avatar,» the Na «vi people undergo a special rite of passage — hence the ride's pun - name Flight of Passage — where each Na «vi bonds with an ikran (called a «banshee» by humans), a flying pterodactyl-esque creature.

«There is a deep and shared mythology that it is a perfect meritocracy,» she says — a self - reinforcing vortex of talent drawn from certain schools, with identical credentials, wearing, most likely, similar garb.

While the mythology of the self - taught entrepreneur still pervades Silicon Valley, it's more the exception than the norm.

It's become part of nationalist mythology that store clerks would order francophone clients to «speak white.»

Scandinavian mythology also runs through film, which features trolls, runes and staves churches.

And we're unpacking some economic mythologies here with Michael Hudson who joins us in our Baltimore studio.

Perpetuate the mythology that is the creator of the Bitcoin protocol, Satoshi Nakamoto.

The CEO of the southern power giant has made a pledge of heavy carbon reduction at the BNEF Future of Energy Summit, but the details are murky and contradictory, and wrapped in layers of mythology.

Thanos threatens to not only destroy life on Earth but also, in a meta sense, shatter everything Marvel has built since 2008: its characters, its many worlds, and its wide - ranging mythology.

She edits and colors such comic book projects as The Lalas, and has provided design, layout, and illustrations for nearly all of Starlight Runner's famous Franchise Mythology documents, including Coca - Cola Happiness Factory, Men in Black Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe, Transformers Universe, and several volumes of Spider - Man Mythology documents.

But when it comes to Thanos's motivations, and the mythology of the Infinity Stones (which are called the Infinity Gems in the comic books), The Infinity Gauntlet informs the movie a lot.

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.

But this mythology is based on false analogies, not economic reality.

According to this mythology, in this way these newcomers magically become «Canadianized.»

Current right - wing mythology has it that bad banking is always the result of government intervention, whether from the Federal Reserve or meddling liberals in Congress.

Most important, what Krugman calls the «right - wing mythology» is largely correct: government intervention is responsible for the systematic problems with the US banking system.

If Krugman's criticism of the «mythology» is correct, the Canadian banking system of that era should have been a basket case, but instead it was a model for the world precisely because it lacked the two most damaging government regulations present in the US.

Israel's top - secret Mossad spy agency has long been shrouded in mystery and mythology, behind what are believed to be some of the most daring covert operations of the past century.

That big bang stuff is a THEORY not a FACT so you can not prove your big bang either, so isnt that mythology as well?

Otherwise you have to call greek mythology historical science and teach that in a science class as well.

Americans seem to still prefer mythology over science.

Time to move forward and leave this mythology behind.

It's all mythology anyway.

It is so very sad that in the 21st century the majority of Americans still follow such a ludicrous patchwork of bronze age mythology.

Writers on Grecian mythology relate that Ceres, the goddess of corn, gave her flesh to eat, and that Bacchus, the God of wine, gave blood to drink.»

Keep your mythology to yourself.

I hope we don't have to wait a century to see today's religion melting into mythology.

I guess that's what happens when you still believe Bronze Age Middle Eastern mythology in the 21st Century USA.

I think there is a huge difference between bringing real world actual experiences to a government / judicial decision and bringing biases based on a cult's unproven tribal mythology, not to mention 1st amendment considerations.

wiki,»... Unicorns are not found in Greek mythology, but rather in accounts of natural history, for Greek writers of natural history were convinced of the reality of the unicorn,...»

Like other myths in Genesis the flood myth borrows from the Sumerians, but with the myth modified to make it consistent with Jewish mythology.