Sentences with phrase «point of our lives in»

I know it's impossible to simplify our modern day lives to the point of living in a log cabin, but we could learn something about ourselves from our primal roots.

At some point of your life in education you get around the moment when life starts to revolve around writing essays.

This is all great advice as it is common sense, particularily the point of living in the same house for a long time.

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As the study points out, the cheapest cities to live in may have the lowest average of combined expenses, but that doesn't mean everything there is cheap, like transportation or groceries.

But inter-agency finger - pointing is a fact of life in Washington, and it seems clear that both the CIA and the State Department screwed up in Benghazi.

Called «Seeso,» the service will launch widely in January, at which point members can pay $ 3.99 per month for ad - free access to a full library NBC comedy programming — from new episodes of Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show to all past episodes of classic shows like The Office and 30 Rock — along with a slate of new original series and stand - up comedy specials.

When Emily first told Marge of her intuition, which she'd realized had been present at so many points in her life, including meeting her husband, she said that Marge told her of the house's history of being handed down from fortune tellers to psychics, beginning in the early 1900s.

As a first point of contact, it opens up networking opportunities (online and in real life) which then lead to coverage in media outlets and widely read blogs.

It's just becoming more and more obvious that a few key players and central platforms in search, social and e-commerce are getting to the point where they will be controlling significant segments of the entire economy and our lives as well.

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for hiIn an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for hiin the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

I live in Canada now, but I gave birth to both of my kids in the United States, and from the vantage point of the Great White North, I can tell you that parents here view the standard three - month American leave as unfathomable and a two - week leave as downright barbaric.

Films like J. Edgar and The Aviator (for which he got a Leading Role nomination) require him to play a single character through many stages of his life, never allowing the actor to fully inhabit characters at a single point in time.

«The fact that solitude enables people to daydream and reflect on their lives also means that it's associated with self - transformation, as psychologists Christopher Long and James Averill note in their theoretical paper «Solitude: An Exploration of Benefits of Being Alone» (paywall),»» Cooper points out.

In work life, we can get so focused on the day - to - day grind that we lose sight of the main point, which is that we're all in this togetheIn work life, we can get so focused on the day - to - day grind that we lose sight of the main point, which is that we're all in this togethein this together.

OTTAWA — Rising gasoline and car prices fuelled the first significant spike in Canada's cost of living since February last month, lifting the annual inflation by half a point to 1.2 per cent — still low by historial standards.

The percentage of Americans living in poverty has fallen for the second year in a row, but is still slightly higher than in 2007 and still 1.4 percentage points higher than in 2000.

Linden Lab operates the virtual world called Second Life... Bolstering its rep for brash - to - the - point - of - crazy dealmaking, AOL purchased Bebo, the third - largest social network in the U.S., for $ 850 million.

But while most of us have had such positive experiences at some point in our lives, this kind of coaching is rarely used in business.

«More cards are charging a monthly fee, like a checking account, and fewer have a la carte fees for services like point - of - sale purchases, ATM transactions and live customer service calls,» said Susan Weinstock, director of Pew's Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project.

Sculley told Business Insider editor - in - chief Alyson Shontell that Jobs won him over with a simple, pointed question: «Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life?

Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand.

But when it comes to the place to settle down, Deutsche Bank pointed to Wellington in New Zealand at the top of the quality - of - life index, based on eight variables: purchasing power, safety, healthcare, cost of living, house price - to - income, commuting time, pollution and climate.

At one point of the night, and many beers in, I joined Carl and a few bloggers on discussing what his life has been like since retiring from his job.

The publishers, who remained anonymous in the report, say they are concerned if the investment of time and money required to produce longer - form video will be worth it, and several pointed to a lackluster experience with Facebook Live as one reason for their concerns.

At one point in my life, I had a girlhood dream of being a professional dancer.

CBA is seen as a stable part of life in the country of 24 million where most people have had a mortgage, insurance policy or regular savings account with CBA at some point - often starting with its famed «Dollarmites» deposit account for school children.

This book is a good jumping off point to explain to your son that men don't grow beards because they look cool or virile, but because shaving is a huge pain in the ass that you will have to commit to every morning for the rest of your natural life.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

The bowl operates similarly to other fantasy football platforms: Users will select a team of nine players — who score points based on their real - life, in - game performances — and face off against teams assembled by other contestants across the country.

«I do think we are in an era where people come to expect, or become comfortable with, hosts of late - night shows having a strong point of view,» says Meyers, former anchor of Saturday Night Live's «Weekend Update.»

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

There's already a lot of speculation as to how this newest iteration of Spider - Man was able to breathe new life into the franchise, but there is one particular moment in the film that points to what differentiates this Spider - Man reboot from its predecessors.

«The tools they gain and the opportunities they earn permanently break the cycles of drug - use, incarceration, and poverty for them and their families, for life,» O'Donnell said in a statement to Business Insider, pointing us to some research outlined on The Doe Fund's website:

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn'In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn'in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

You've probably called someone you know a psychopath in passing at some point in your life, either in jest as an acknowledgment of a strange behavior, or as a fleeting response to a decision that made you angry.

The biggest turning point in my life happened when I declined the security of a 9 to 5 job and decided to build a digital business on the simple principal of adding value to the lives of others.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Gill points to studies that have shown confident people do better in life, regardless of their actual skill.

I'm at a point in my life where «wedding season» is about to become a very real thing, and I wanted something fun that would make me feel like the life of the party, even when awkwardly sitting to the side of the dance floor.

Growing up middle - class, well - educated at this point in history is pretty much the golden card of all golden cards in the history of human life on this planet.

I believed with every fiber of my glittery, go - gettin» heart that my work ethic (15 - hour days / 7 days a week), along with my talent, skills, and personal magic, I could rip a path to accelerated success because also, this was A Leap of Faith and I was Living in My Divine Authenticity and that was worth some express lane juju points from Heaven,» St. Claire confesses.

One thing is certain in life: All of us will need accessibility tools at some point.»

The event was a breaking point in the community's resentment of L.A. police chief William Parker «and what they considered his double standard toward [African Americans] and whites,» according to LIFE magazine's editorial prefacing its Aug. 27, 1965, cover story on the riots.

The unprecedented mission starting in June will involve the deployment of warships and surveillance aircraft off the coast of Libya, the main launching point for people risking their lives to reach Europe.

Defenders of high educator salaries always note that they're necessary given the high cost of living in the area, and it's a valid point.

«Many, if not most, women have at some point in their life faced this kind of behavior,» Clooney added.

One case in point is the October 2017 suicide of a man in Turkey who shot himself live on the site while viewers pleaded for him to stop.

«It's this massive purchase, in many cases, the largest purchase of your life at that point, and it's something that you know nothing about,» he said.

Other cities earn a relative score, where a one - point increase or decrease equates to a 1 % change in the cost of living.

«There came a point in time when I had to say, «I'm in my mid-thirties, am I willing to wait until some of my kids are out of the house... [to enjoy] my life to the extent I imagined I would?»»