Sentences with phrase «people making things happen»

My favourite saying is «some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, some people wonder what happened»..

Passionate people make things happen; they are the ones who others look to when in need, they are unbridled and fearless.

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And, without realizing it was happening, learning to memorize a deck of cards helped me develop techniques that make me a lot better at remembering the names and faces of people I meet — as well as a bunch of other things.

Luggage is the last thing you'd expect people to get excited about, but cofounders Jen Rubio and Steph Korey made it happen with their luggage company Away.

It's not so much a case of being instructed as it is one of needing to be regularly reminded that (a) nothing good happens by itself and (b) you are the person primarily responsible for making the right things happen.

I learned that I'm good at making things happen and getting people behind things.

I'm proud of the team environment and culture we've built: great people who make great decisions and make great things happen.

All of those things happened not because of, but almost in spite of commercial and government interests, and that's the really remarkable thing: it was people who made the Internet great.

But, an intriguing thing happens, once you start letting people make their own decisions.

Impress people by following through, by going above and beyond to make things happen, by going the extra mile, and by showing them how valuable they are!

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe they can make things happen and those who believe things happen to them.

You also learn that the people who can make things happen are the ones who are challenging the status quo.

Success for a business of any size hinges on its people and their ability to make things happen.

«I think in the country, people said at where we are right now, we need to have some of these things in place, but now with a dynamic and robust economy and what we see happening right now with the tax cuts and job bill, it makes a lot of things more possible,» Kelly said.

But it feels so wrong because you know that there's so many bigger things that could happen, and I like to think that ultimately so many people's goal is to make the world a better place, and we're being given this opportunity to do something like that.

Successful entrepreneurs are a particular, valuable type of people to society — they make things happen — but we should not rely on them to be «consistent».

Authentic leaders start with a strong sense of values, and some deep beliefs in their mission and purpose, but just as importantly, they are able to personally inspire and build trusting relationships with the people around them who can make things happen in the business.

Kick starting needed change is always tough, but if you can bring the right people to the party, frame things in a digestible way, and volunteer to make it happen, you just might win the fight and create needed change.

«Mike is a real «go getter», a person who delivers and makes things happen.

The reality is that things can happen to people that make it difficult to repay their loans — their relationships break down, or they lose their jobs, or a member of the family becomes too ill to work or even dies.

alot of ppl are making funny comments about if there was a god then why did all these bad things happen... and if there is a god then all these bad things that happen makes him a cruel uncaring god for not stopping it....

When good things happen, God gets the credit, and when bad things happen, people get the blame because we made a bad choice.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

Whether it's that people become Christians because they are gullible and have been scammed, that things happen by sheer coincidence, or that the life of Jesus was distorted by people with adgendas, you just make flat statement without any reasons to believe they are true.

I don't know what community you live in, but where I am from its the Christian folks in the community that are the most proactive about making things happen for people in need.

I decided long ago that theodicy is nothing more than a giant circle jerk made to distract from the REAL question we should be asking when bad things happen to good people:

Sometimes that happened after every effort was made to make things right, and sometimes people fell between the cracks.

Becoming an atheist is the most wonderful thing that can happen to a person, but for these «pastors» it means losing friends, family, and the income they made by telling their lies.

I don't know what foolish things people and nations will permit themselves to do in the near future, what compacts we will make with hell through the use of nuclear and biological weapons, what ecological disasters we will actively perpetrate or merely permit to happen or what unprecedented human tragedy we will willingly or witlessly sponsor.

It can only make sense if there is no god, and good and bad things happen on their own, or through the actions of people, and it is up to us to seek actual justice and morality in the here and now — the only reality we have.

This kind of thing must have happened depressingly often, because his unmarried status made people wonder about him.

What perplexes me most is people cryinmg why God allowed «such terible things» to happen (ie Newtown school shooting), yes terrible, but if God intervened in bad times to make it good times, then we would be living in a «perfect World.»

In the middle of the last century, the German New Testament scholar Rudolf Bultmann opined that people who had learned to use an electric light switch could no longer believe that God makes things happen.

Adam fell and the world right along with him... guess what... it's all still fallen,,, you can bitterly list all the broken nasty things that happened as a result of broken people in a broken world making awful choices and all you accomplish in the the process is to display how bitter your heart is and why the world needs God more than ever...

and also if i have and your answer is yes then if there is a way to get the holy spirit back then please tell me and also please pray for me for a few days and i also want to know that really is the unforgivable sin unforgivable and really i swear on my mother that i don't want to go to hell forever and i am very scared of it please help me urgent and also i am sending a friend request to you on facebook and please accept it so that we can talk on this matter together and also i think you will like my page and i couldn't sleep properly because of this and in my half sleep in my dreams i was just visiting your website and finding my comment missing and i as pleasing god and the holy spirit but as i was receiving my spirit again and again as i mentioned this in my previous comment i was abusing in my mind i couldn't stop abusing and i have a very good mother she tried to wake me but i told her not to do and it was happening same things again and again and i told my mother again the half truth because i don't want to break her heart and she told me that there is nothing like ghosts and they are making me fools (you all) and i am telling you honestly before this i irritate my mother a lot i just watch tv and surf the internet or play games in my pc and i eat and brush late and also don't listen to my parents but after i saw your website i became obedient for a few days and again the same i am disobedient your webpage or article ruined my life but this is not your fault and now days i am buy searching about this topic and my father (Vivek Saraf) broke his hands on the 6th May while riding at a very high speed he normally don't go at a very high speed but he had a very important work so whole he was riding a dog was running on the way and to save his life he gave a very hard brake and he with his nebiour fall down and got injuries in his legs and broke his hands and at first he walked with difficulty and then the local people helped him on his way and took him to the local hospital but the doctor told that we need to go to Kollkata (the capital of west bengal, India) and so he went with his loyal staff because he is a business man and in the hospital he got cured but he still have the fracture in his hands so i request you to pray for him and his negibour also and i will tell you the rest in facebook bye and sorry for spelling mistakes in my previous comments.

From Luke 19:41 - 44 we gather that he did expect destruction to fall upon his people because they knew not «the things that make for peace,» but there is no likelihood that he knew just when or how this would happen as it did in A.D. 70.

So since this story makes the point that the best thing to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun, the media is treating it like it never happened.

This makes people think «Christianity is B.S.,» or, «there is no god» Same thing happens in other religions.

The problem is that people think these things really happened and then we have religious fanatics who can't discern metaphoric made up stories from reality.

If it really were this the age needed, the theater might perhaps need a new play in which it was made a subject of laughter that a person died of love — or would it not rather be salutary for this age if such a thing were to happen among us, if the age were to witness such an occurrence, in order that for once it might acquire courage to believe in the power of spirit, courage to quench cravenly the better impulses in oneself and to quench invidiously the better impulses in others... by laughter?

He wants to see them do five things: «Initiate a focused approach to the claims of Islam; make a political and cultural analysis of the unique impact of the Islamic evangelization of black males; approach Islam on theological and evangelical levels; assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of Islam in Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisons.

People have to look at from where a nation is coming from and moving towards rather than judge where they are at present — if you took a snapshot of countries like the USA around 1865 - 1880 or during the race riots or peace marches of the 60's you'd come away with a view of America as being an oppressive country (at least in the south)-- there is not a single thing happening in China that hasn't happened in the US or Britain as well your just looking at a single timeline while making a judgment.

It's when people connect on this experiential level that ideas (in this case, «bad things shouldn't happen to good people») gain cultural traction and eventually make their way into religious imagery.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Perhaps if those who are innocent (children, people who do good things, the elderly) will have good things happen to them and will die peacefully, while those who are criminals (murderers, rapists, molesters, thieves, etc) have really bad things happen to them and die tortuous deaths: would this make more sense to you?

mathew24 JESUS said just like the days of NOAH at his coming people will be drinking eating and giving in to marriage.and this things are happening and will make people miss the kingdom of heaven.

Well, says the reverend, smiling indulgently to symbolise his empathy with the poor benighted fools who actually believe such fairy stories, while making quite clear that he, of course, is not one of those simple people, the important thing isn't that it actually happened.

There is a show that is supposed to be funny... about home videos where people have «accidents» or strange things happen to them and often I believe someone must have gotten hurt when they fall or slam into something... and people just roar and think it is so funny, but stuff like that does not make me laugh as I think about how that must have hurt... so I guess humor is in one's funny bone, and that is about all I can say about comedy!

The church never wants anyone to think for themselves, but if you are a good faithful person, and you pray for the protection of your family, and something like this happens, It's a tough thing to make sense out of.