«Definiteness of purpose is the starting
point of all achievement.»»
After many years of working together, we have reached
a point of achievement that makes me proud.
Constantly selling in the international markets, his artworks reached
a point of achievement that was now clearly matched by his status and reputation.
Talking about the finer
points of achievement design is a major topic and something a bit too big for this post as we are looking at them from a broad point of view.
Quantify your experience: Showing hard numbers provide employers a real reference
point of your achievements.
The chronological places the emphasis on career span and high
points of achievement.
Build a new story punctuated with the exclamation
points of your achievements, including the nuances of your unique value.
Listed for each job is your job title, company name, dates, a brief description of job responsibilities and then 3 - 5 bullet
points of achievements / accomplishments.
You feel depleted, anxious, overwhelmed and wonder about
the point of your achievements if you can't really enjoy them.
Not exact matches
A year ago, the term «unicorn» seemed to get bandied about as if $ 1 billion was the starting
point for valuations and not a benchmark
of achievement.
On tax reform, the most significant legislative
achievement of Trump's first year, it's probably not fair to
point just at Trump for a policy that tends to pose more harm to Democratic constituencies than Republican.
Even controlling for grade -
point average, men earned more than women who graduated with identical levels
of academic
achievement.
«Trying to analyze my professional path like a «web site performance» has been hard but helpful to get an objective
point of view about current
achievements and future goals.»
But Wambach is also making a
point that other women have echoed, in a year
of major
achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.
Teams that recognize the
achievements of individuals will always function better than teams that only
point out faults.
A survey published earlier this year by Junior
Achievement and PwC found that 24 %
of students aged 18 to 29 believe that their loans will be forgiven at some
point.
Twitter is under fire for being a platform for bigotry and nastiness, but Gates
points out that it was also the forum where people around the world shared amazing
achievements and heart - melting acts
of kindness.
Without taking the time to think carefully about where your notions
of achievement and purpose come from and what success means to you, you're in a terrible position to decide if this week's hot «how to be successful» advice applies to you or only to someone who thinks the
point of life is something you actually don't value much at all.
Focal
point, the Psychology
of Achievement, Time Management and other teachings have transformed my life.
A press release should always prioritize the news angle — the main
point of a PR after all is to tell the press about an
achievement they should take note
of.
Forty - five years after Humanae Vitae, it now seems clear that the invention
of the oral contraceptive pill (to adopt one reference
point for the broader contraceptive revolution) was one
of the three
achievements of 20th - century science with truly world - historical impact, the other two being the creation
of the self - sustaining nuclear chain reaction and the unraveling
of the DNA double helix.
The answer you'd get to this question would largely depend on the
point in history when you asked it and the level
of scientific
achievement in the culture where you asked it.
• Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary
of Lady Murasaki: Needless to say, The Tale
of Genji is the greatest literary
achievement of the glorious Heian period
of Japanese high culture, and one
of the greatest novels ever written, and so I win no
points for needless obscurity here, but having recommended Lady Sarashina's journal above, I would be remiss in failing to recommend Lady Murasaki's equally (but very differently) lovely collection
of vignettes and meditations and acute observations (and gossip).
My
point: Religion doesn't necessarily lead to users
of primitive tools, and in fact has been a motivator for great
achievements.
Some conservatives are not above signaling, in more or less overt ways, their belief that blacks can never pass [the test
of achievement by merit], and that there is little
point in the rest
of society bearing guilt for blacks» failures.
Bartholomew
points out that to return from that exile to our «native land» or «home»» to a state
of implacement, in his preferred terminology» provides the narrative framework
of the entire Old Testament, with sin constantly presenting an obstacle to that
achievement.
For instance, a twenty - eight - year - old mother in the same study, like many other respondents,
pointed to «my family and my children primarily, and my careers» Another person answered, «my child, my friends, my hobbies, and mostly my work; they give me a sense
of achievement.»
God's receiving the world's
achievements into his own everlasting life; God's remembering for ever that which is thus received; God's using for further good the
achievements which have taken place in the created order — here are
points which need to be emphasized when we begin to think
of the worth or value
of human existence.
Rabbi Maurice Davis
of White Plains, New York,
points out that the present generation
of Jewish young people, those born here in the «60s, is the first one that can not reasonably expect to surpass its parents»
achievements, as those parents did their parents».
Here the
point is that just as the growth
of the seed is not a process man controls, so the kingdom
of God is not a human
achievement but a gift
of God.
Don't boast about your possessions or your
achievements — there's bound to be a Freudian in the room who'll
point out that you are displacing your desire for something more significant in the way
of bodily attributes or fulfilling relationships.
Burckhardt hit all the civilizational high
points, tracing the whole flattering arc
of human
achievement.
Moreover, scientific and technical progress in the next ten years will introduce unprecedented
achievements In this field and it is no exaggeration to assert here and now that teleconimuni - cation will play a primary role both on the national and on world levels and it could also be
pointed out that the most difficult problems are not generally
of a purely technical nature and that telecommunications questions should more and more command the attention
of governmental authorities at the highest level. . . .
«26 On the other hand, God's mercy
points to the corruption
of evil in every historic
achievement.
«16
Of course there are all kinds of developments in techniques and in cultural achievements; but the point is that man s moral position before God remains the sam
Of course there are all kinds
of developments in techniques and in cultural achievements; but the point is that man s moral position before God remains the sam
of developments in techniques and in cultural
achievements; but the
point is that man s moral position before God remains the same.
More to the
point, as entertaining as Tirso's play is, it is neither an extraordinary literary
achievement nor even necessarily the most authoritative version
of the tale.
This refers not only to other historic religions, which also produce high fruits
of human
achievement — whether or not in as great numbers or with as much efficiency as Christianity we are not concerned to say at this
point but to movements and influences not ordinarily called religious.
That this illimitable forward - leaning vitality foresees concrete
achievements and conquests that are
of doubtful moral significance is nothing to the
point.
about the eternal life in God; nor does anything
point to moral improvement and perfection as an indispensable condition for the
achievement of this goal... It is only just to say that every man has an inherent right to favorable conditions for him to enjoy all - round development in his striving for a full - blooded life... However one can not agree with the opinion that where there are no conditions
of life worthy
of man one can not even speak
of salvation today.
Just as the world must trust God to provide the aim for its efforts, so God must trust the world for the
achievement of that aim, As Madden and Hare
point out, «he is apparently so weak that he can not guarantee his own welfare.
The great
achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one
point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices
of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him
of the whole life
of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment
of great ends: the redemption
of the world and the opening
of rich life for His children.
Once we begin to think
of our faith in terms
of largeness instead
of largess; once we begin to think
of our faith in terms
of measurable success or significant
achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that
point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.
Hartshorne will have nothing to do with this abstractly negative God, and it is one
of the
achievements of his philosophy continually to have
pointed out the implications
of classical theism (even though,
of course, classical theists would wish to resist the drawing
of some
of them).
As Felt (PS 10:57) has
pointed out, what needs to be done is to elucidate how the ontological aspect (
achievement of subjective aim)
of an actual entity might be connected with significant interaction
of that entity with others (the epistemological aspect).
Third, it is noteworthy that in Man's Vision
of God Hartshorne distinguishes between God's «purpose as laid down before all the worlds, or rather before each and every world» — which is part
of God's eternal and unchanging aspect — and «the more and more particular purposes which mark the approach to, and..., the
achievements of purpose which mark arrival at, any given
point of time» (MVG 237, my italics).
At one
point Kirkpatrick writes that the process view asks us «to imagine a process
of unification as having, in effect, subjective unity prior to the
achievement of subjective unity» (PS 3:20).
But the great
achievement here is that evangelicalism affirms a scripturally grounded conceptual framework that is shared by all who lay claim to historic Christian orthodoxy, thereby providing common
points of reference for the continuing and candid engagement
of our agreements and disagreements.
Just before describing (and dismissing) the proposed link between prostate cancer and contraceptive pills, a classic «falsehood» embraced by traditional - minded conservatives, Stepp
points out that «the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, counts contraception as one
of the 10 greatest health
achievements of the 20th century.»
We work, and sometimes we succeed even to the
point of enjoying the success; but at other times we are disappointed with the results or ache over our own lack
of satisfaction in
achievement.
Once we begin to think
of our faith in terms
of largeness instead
of largess or in terms
of measurable success or significant
achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that
point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.