Sentences with phrase «stories of people getting»

Unfortunately, you've heard enough stories of people getting hired this way to make you believe it can happen to you, too.

The stories of people getting emails for 20 % discounts on PSN cart and the holy «Golden Ticket» email for $ 100 on PSN.

There have been some stories of people getting free leopard geckos from classified ads.

There are hundreds of positive stories of people getting approved for mortgages even with a bankruptcy on their record.

«We hear stories of people getting together over a glass of wine writing up profiles,» Gould said.

«It's the success stories of people getting together or having children that really keep us motivated,» the spokesperson said.

You've probably heard terrible horror stories of people getting «catfished» online where they end up meeting someone and finding out they are not who they said they are.

There are even stories of people getting married after meeting and dating for awhile.

I have heard way too many travel horror stories of people getting things stolen in transit.

Sometimes you would hear stories of people getting robbed of their hardworking money on their way out of the bank.

Not exact matches

You can tell the person sitting in front of you is an ace interviewer (a good thing, no doubt) because of his or her flawless performance, but you get the distinct impression that this isn't the whole story.

Clarke also criticized local Milwaukee media for getting «suckered» into «making a fake news story out of it because they love when people attack the sheriff.»

Leaders who master the practice of good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story by searching conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up with the right solution.

But the stories of the people who created these acclaimed works are just as fascinating and inspiring as the ones we see in theaters, ranging from partnerships between newfound friends, finally getting to yes after years of hard work and the remarkable work ethics of idiosyncratic minds.

«Sometimes it seems like people will have similar amounts of evidence or similar stories, and one person might get expelled and one person won't.

«Making new memories» such as I just told that story «is one of the things that goes when people get older, and is a sign of neurological impairment,» Michaelis said.

For example, if he tried to get a shy person to retell a story he enjoyed in front of a large crowd, he ended up putting that person into an incredibly uncomfortable situation.

There was a real consistency to stories, so that told us we were getting an honest reflection from people the overwhelming majority of the time.

Unless you are one of those rare people who can meet a random stranger on the street, strike up a conversation and get their life story within 30 seconds, approaching someone you have never met before can be nerve - racking.

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.

One of the best parts of my job is that I get to meet new people and hear new stories all the time.

But there's been this story told of founders who are just not nice to people and that's what it takes to get ahead.

According to a story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, his reasoning goes like this: «Call me opportunistic; I thought I could get better people with less competition because we were willing to understand the skills and capabilities that many of these women had.»

Stories abound of people emptying their bank accounts and putting all of their available cash into the cryptocurrency in the hopes of getting rich quick.

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.»

When I got out of the military a decade ago, my story went something like this: Recently discharged veteran wants to meet the world's most interesting people, write about them, and find a way to make a living.

Watching the video below, from Great Big Story, I couldn't help think of how many people want to become more fit but accept physical limitations others get past.

While our emphasis is on celebrating people's life stories, there's no getting around the fact that millions of our users will be people who have suffered a significant loss.

I have my own side of this story, but I believe in these people that have been underrepresented getting their stories out enough that I will hold back things that I could say just because I believe in it that much.

He or she used this information to approach people I knew in the cryptocurrency space with a story that was, arguably, quite ludicrous: the hospital would pull the plug on my Dad if they didn't get payment of a bill and that I, in my anguish, needed to borrow and sell 10 bitcoins immediately and would pay the friend back 15 the next morning.

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If we want people to know the potential impact of ESOPs, we need to start getting our stories, photos, comments, and videos out there.

It's disheartening to me when I talk to senior level marketers who focus so much on getting more people to the website, when they have customers right in front of them that need to hear stories on how to make their lives or careers better.

-- With the spotlight on him, the president's son - in - law has become «paranoid,» CNN reports: «Kushner also feels that he has come under fire from his own West Wing colleagues recently, with the notion that «everyone is out to get him,» a source said... Kushner... told people that he suspected the timing of the story about his foreign contacts was coordinated to be released when issues surrounding his security clearance were in the news, according to a source familiar with his thinking.»

This is the modern - day variant of a staking rush where people get wrapped up in the story irrespective of the facts behind it.

I'm surrounded with stories at work of people that bought condos / homes while single, got married, and then got stuck with properties that barely break even.

«Behind every person, behind every company, behind everything, is a story of how it got there — and the most relevant stories connect on a personal level.»

Certainly, investors hear alarming investment nightmare stories about people who held a large proportion of their personal wealth in their employer's stock and lost everything.3 4 While your client may think, «I know this company because I work here,» that thinking can get them into trouble — think WorldCom and Lehman Brothers.

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However, these success stories are mostly written by the ones that succeed, very few people get a glimpse of the darker side that harbours broken dreams and...

Rule 1: You Can't Make Them Up Rule 2: Don't Confuse a Buyer Persona with a Customer Profile Rule 3: Get the Right People with the Right Attributes and the Right Skills Involved Rule 4: Buyer Personas Are a Translation of Goals Rule 5: A Buyer Persona Offers Insight into the Unarticulated and the No - So - Obvious Rule 6: Buyer Persona Development is Not a Quantitative Process Rule 7: Avoid Building a Wire Mesh of Data Points When Developing Buyer Personas Rule 8: Goal - Centered Qualitative and Experiential Analysis is the Foundation of Buyer Persona Development Rule 9: The Purpose of the Buyer Persona Development Process is to Inform on Goal - Centered Customer Strategies Rule 10: Buyer Persona Development Serves as a Communications Platform to Tell the Story of Customers and Buyers

There's the well - known story of younger people struggling under the weight of hefty student loans, which gets factored into debt - to - income ratios when they apply for mortgages.

On the influencer side, the insights that you get with linking and tagging brands in Stories shows you how many people clicked on the link so you have a better idea of how much of an impact you're generating for brands and if I'm linking to a blog post (another way I drive traffic to my blog) then I can see how many people clicked on the link from my sStories shows you how many people clicked on the link so you have a better idea of how much of an impact you're generating for brands and if I'm linking to a blog post (another way I drive traffic to my blog) then I can see how many people clicked on the link from my storiesstories.

This is a nice little piece, well - written, and in the belief blog... but, once you scan down a bit further, the story gets slaughtered by the same - ole, same - ole gang of people making judgements on people's beliefs.

So seeing stories like this and others where people report that they aren't getting promoted because they aren't christian make me worry about the state of the military that I take pride in having served

There is a story of a churchwarden (senior lay person) who went to hear a modern theologian speak — in the questions he got up and said that he was disappointed that his vicar wasn't there because that was the kind of thing he wanted to hear in his church.

After all, fish tend to get larger each time the story of the catch is retold from one person to the other.

«Trolls» (people who like to get on comment boards to upset people) gravitate to these types of stories.

Nice story, but the Jewish people are slowly but surely realizing that the United States is getting tired of all the hypocritical guilt trips and finger wagging.

In the end, I think, these pastors wanted the ease of stealing other peoples» stories and the praise they'd get for other peoples» words.