Sentences with phrase «person story about»

Author Jackie Pilossoph shares a first person story about the lessons she has learned about putting her own current feelings of disappointment and anger aside, successfully creating a «happily ever after» for her children.

Cija Black writes an insightful, first - person story about finding love on - line.

Read a first - person story about a mom giving birth to her baby at home in a birthing tub.

We're not actively seeking other guest writers currently, but if you have any real first - person stories about you and your baby and your adventures as a rookie mom (or dad), we'd be happy to consider it.

Not exact matches

While shiny objects may unlock engagement, customer loyalty comes from how a product or company makes a person feel and the story it tells them about themselves.

A virtual or immersive - reality feature on this story could easily distort the way that people feel about what happened.

I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me... I want it to be about what the US government is doing... I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

We tell stories for, about, and by people who seize life.

«They'd rather have videos of people telling stories about their loved one than maybe a priest just sort of reading just out loud,» he said.

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

They're curious about people and their back stories.»

They are Social Currency (e.g., sharing things that make people look good), Triggers (acknowledging that we talk about things that are top - of - mind), Emotion, Public (imitating what we see others do), Practical Value (news people can use) and Stories (information passed along under the guise of idle chitchat).

«So in order to stand out, in order to have people share stories about you and to evangelize for your business on your behalf, you need to create these exceptional experiences.»

His status as a mere witness is all the more reason to go in prepared through legal counsel — «even if you're telling a story about ice cream, because these are some of the most irresponsible people on earth,» he said, referring to Congress.

Some people on Twitter were skeptical about the sudden retirement, asking «What's the rest of the story?»

Watch House of Cards (speaking of creeps...) or any old episode of Behind the Music, and the story about power you'll see is simple: a nice, ambitious person, once they can do whatever they want, is quickly transformed into a monster of appetite, running over anyone necessary to satisfy their newly created desires.

When I met Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) at a book signing, I shared a story with him about a signing I did at which the only person who showed up was my mother.

A handful of people will undoubtedly help keep that story alive when talking about the importance of listening on social media.

That's why it's especially encouraging for me to occasionally stumble upon a story worth sharing that suggests there are still people in our business who actually give a damn about the things that really matter.

But to do it in a purposeful and fun way that still created brand engagement but it ultimately drove to conversion — because we drove a million and a half people to our site and we were able to tell deeper product stories and get them to think about our brand in a very different way.

Late this year, Imax announced two big movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling story of heroism, friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic about the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

Instead, make it a story about the culture of innovation and the many people who have sustained it; giving others role models and the license to have something to strive for.

But the use of this story is anything but: «One of the great things about the catalyst story is it's a great way to help your people understand some of the change you want to surface at your company,» Gittins said.

Live Stories can apparently attract about 20 million people on average in a 24 - hour span, which means that ad space on a 20 - million - view story can be worth about $ 400,000.

«I think all the stories about replacing General Kelly are from people who are unhappy they've lost access to the president,» Mulvaney told Chris Wallace on «Fox News Sunday.»

In fact, they work really well in social stories, but will just annoy people if you're blogging about your business and related topics.

Your customers are people, which means they will relate better to your story if it's somehow about them.

Away recently launched its own podcast, Airplane Mode, which includes great stories about how and why we travel, from people all over the globe.

Fifty - one % said they found news stories about the deaths of people at the hands of police officers, or news about ambush attacks on police in three states, to be among the year's most important news events.

In the end, understanding the world is about understanding people, and fiction gives you the best, most nuanced, most varied human stories and character portrayals.

They'd like to feel they know the artisan that did the handiwork, and they like brands that tell stories about people.

People constantly rewrite the stories they tell themselves about themselves, making recall an unreliable tool for improvement,»

Build a media presence of some kind: tell stories about the people who are using your services through a blog at least.

Necker damage huge, but BVI #Irma story is not about Necker - about 1000s of people who've lost homes & livelihoods https://t.co/0USuxvk1dS pic.twitter.com/BaUpvJ2 2pv

He said he would be inviting «leading conservatives» and people from all across the political spectrum to talk with him and share their points of view about the issues raised by the Gizmodo story.

«This story is about the tens of thousands of people who have lost their homes and their livelihoods,» he wrote in his blog post, «Recovering from Hurricane Irma.»

A classic example of this idea is that you'll have an easier time remembering a story about someone who bakes than a person with the last name Baker.

You will often hear stories about someone who didn't read people and acted in anger, or maybe it's someone who didn't read people correctly and paid for it when a business decision ended up looking cold and impersonal.

I fell right to sleep, so I have no idea what the person said or what the story is about.

The stories are about how people fail to respond in the proper way.

Familiarity breeds stories: the way you think about race, the way and where you grew up, your relatives» ideas and experiences on race all influence what people bring to their ideas about race.

Almost 49,000 people are diagnosed with the disease every year, and every one of them has an equally sad story to tell about the diagnosis.

Any chief executive's ranking, in other words, might not tell the whole story about the person and how he or she is really viewed by the workforce.

Many people think, «Wow, it would be awesome if Inc.com ran a story about our new product -; think of the exposure!»

Finance Minister Bill Morneau insists he got into politics to help people, and I have argued that he has a decent story to tell about the state of Canada's economy.

The American people have no reason to believe that they've heard the full story and every reason to believe that Washington assumes they are too stupid or preoccupied to care about cyber security.»

If you bring five people together, you'll get five different stories about what went wrong.»

«It's not just about people reading a story in that moment,» says Stefano.

I saw the story in the Wall Street Journal Mansion section about Moraga and realized that I had met the owner 20 or 25 years ago with President Reagan at a social party, although he wasn't a very political person.

Setting aside First Amendment issues for the moment, the more I tried to talk to people about the story, and about geo - fencing in particular, the clearer it became that this common practice is just complicated enough and new - ish to consumers that it warranted a closer look.