Sentences with phrase «stories about people in»

Even before young children can read, family members, childcare providers and teachers read them stories about people in far away places, sometimes from the distant past and sometimes about people whose lives are similar to their own.

Of course the statistics used in this study don't tell all the individual stories about people in these cities.

Novellas # 23 is one of a series of books that tell more than one hundred unrelated stories about people in challenging situations.

It's ONLY «real» stories about people in their 20s.

Reality Bites, back then, was what it was because they weren't telling «real» stories about people in their 20s then.

If you live far from family and friends, put photographs into a small album and tell your child stories about the people in the pictures so he gets to know about important people in his life.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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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.

«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.»

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.

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

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.

«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.

And every time I talked about my story, people responded in very inspired ways, either creatively or business wise.

It only launched late last month, and already the Tumblr blog Sh-t People Say to Women Directors (& Other Women in Film) is deluged with horror stories about working in Hollywood.

Effective communication isn't just about talking; leaders who master the art of listening authentically will have uncanny, X-Men-like ability to listen intuitively to the other person's story, asking questions, and searching conversations for depth, meaning and understanding with their needs in mind.

Invariably, when we tell the story of how the band survived 10 years in the New York and New Jersey bar scene while struggling to get a record deal, people want to hear war stories about shady club owners and how we dealt with the implied «mob scene.»

«Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandals and disclosures about the National Security Administration's surveillance program in May.»

«Our customers are shopping not so much because of a desire to buy something as they are engaged in learning about what's new, meeting interesting people and hearing their stories,» he says.

In truth, the stories we most greedily devour are about people who are born rich.

«That moment of meeting the person they've heard about in all these interviews and hearing from that person the story of the business.

After people read a story, they are unlikely to go back and find that story again to see what their friends were saying about it, and it wouldn't bump up in News Feed.

Let us know in the comments — we love telling stories about amazing people.

You may wish to do some clean up then as sites such as Bloomberg Business news are pointing directly at your current website and business activities in stories about the bankruptcy filing: http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=146030718 This is what leads people to believe that the current company filed.

Her news story about an increasing number of seniors declaring bankruptcy in the U.S. was read by more than 40,000 people in one month.

«What's meaningful to me about stories,» Washington adds, «is that we can learn from putting ourselves in other people's shoes.»

I read somewhere, maybe Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm about Goldwater's 1964 campaign, that newspapers simply didn't report about the John Birch society in the 1950s — the owners, people like the Chandlers, wouldn't allow it — or they buried the stories in the middle of the paper.

As the Lean Startup movement moves into new sectors and industries, I get constant requests for more stories about how people are using these ideas in new and unexpected ways.

I have 800 + people who spend their entire days» lives thinking about how to actually market and story tell, where our eyeballs and ears actually are, because they're not in the places where a lot of companies and entrepreneurs and businesses think.

He says he wanted people to read it for pleasure and that Flash Boys is a positive story about people acting in the better interests of others.

There are many pleasures in this story about investment banks pitching activism preparedness so I guess we might as well start with the cheapest of them, 1 which is that people who work at investment banks sometimes use words funny:

«These aren't stories about the «before and after» reveal or people with six packs,» PureGym's chief marketing officer Stephen Rowe told The Drum, «these are ordinary everyday people that really value healthy lifestyles and the role Pure Gym can play in that.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Instead, I sent people from a promoted pin to an article engaging them in a story about my brand and products.

It was the first to report that U.S. intelligence officials briefed Trump about claims that Russia was in possession of compromising information on him, and it broke the story that the White House had asked the F.B.I. to publicly reject media reports that people close to Trump were in contact with the Russians during the campaign.

«It's great for people who want to do good in the world, but it also forces organizations to be very deliberate about how different aspects of their story are going to manifest themselves.»

This summer a Nikolas Cruz made an online comment in response to a story about a disgruntled doctor in New York who used an AR - 15 to shoot seven people, killing one and wounding six others.

If you ever see me in person ask me to tell you the story about the pig farmer who seed - funded my first company.

You are seeing interesting stories in society about people contributing, innovating and making changes that affect peoples» lives around the globe.»