Sentences with phrase «telling powerful stories about»

This module will help you start telling powerful stories about who you are as an artist and what your art is about.

Anna Turley tells a powerful story about her daily fight for Redcar, a community which has been hit by the decline of heavy industry including steel and the fall out — especially on young people.

I greatly enjoyed Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit years ago, and here she again proves she can write and tell a powerful story about triumph against terrible

I greatly enjoyed Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit years ago, and here she again proves she can write and tell a powerful story about triumph against terrible circumstances.

Not exact matches

It is much more powerful to incorporate mini metrics and statistics along with the story, versus telling the audience about your student's three - million - dollar business.

When asked about his most effective selling tactic, Osgouei explains, «One selling tactic that's extremely undervalued is telling a story that can create a powerful perception of value by showing both the before story and the after story in a way that gets the customer excited to partner with your team, and excited about your offering.»

A rabbi once told me that this story about David was included in the Scriptures to make the point that even the most moral of persons can fall, the most powerful people have weaknesses, and no one, not even David, is perfect.

Stories we tell ourselves about what is happening to us are dangerous because they are powerful.

The Rescue tells powerful, true stories about God's ability to help us when we need Him most.

At its core, however, there's a powerful story being told about how extreme, religious dogma can both shape and ruin us.

While those two events are seemingly disparate (while I celebrated my father's life, I am still mourning my loss), I realized that something joyous happened at both events; a recognition that the stories we tell about our lives are incredibly powerful.

* Preliminary results from an Oxford - based study suggest a higher proportion of infant - directed negativity in the way depressed fathers talk about, and to, their infants (Sethna et al, 2009) * Depressed fathers are less likely to read, sing songs and tell stories to their babies than other fathers — and than depressed mothers (Paulson et al, 2006), which may explain why fathers» depression has a more powerful negative impact than mothers» depression on their infants» language development in the first year.

As a constituent, you have a powerful story to tell about your own experience with PCOS or that of someone close to you.

Earlier in the night, Oprah paid tribute to Recy Taylor and in case you'd like to read more about her, here's a piece from last month about a powerful documentary telling her harrowing story:

At 2 1/2 hours, Aquarius is about a half - hour too long for the story it tells, yet it feels like a privilege to be in the presence of such a powerful character and such a quietly commanding performance.

In her review of the film for the BFI, my good friend and collaborator Sophie Mayer astutely links Stories We Tell to the feminist classic Daughter Rite (1978) by Michelle Citron, and what I love about this connection is the fact that it perfectly crystallizes how experimental and powerful Polley's examination of female identity — both hers and that of her elusive mother — is.

So for me, this was a different way to tell a love story... it's really powerful to me to see a woman care so strongly, and not have her feelings be about a guy.»

«Not only are they directed by women, but they're telling very powerful stories about women that haven't been seen on screen nearly enough.»

Update: Learn more about using storytelling in the «The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains» Life Hacker article.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

The purpose in asking these questions was twofold: First, to give people an opportunity to reflect on what they already know to be true about powerful learning and teaching — rather than tell them what some «expert» thinks it is; and second, to use the insights of these stories to help people see more clearly what a powerful learning environment actually looks like — and what it requires.

Based on a true story, this powerful historical novel tells about the Turkish genocide of the Armenians.

Companies with this branding approach usually have a unique story to tell about where they and their products came from, both in a literal and more figurative sense, which can be a powerful tool for making a sale.

The tone of the story being told in this 300,000 - word visual novel is a balance between the familiar and lighthearted fun experienced in many JRPGs and powerful emotional revelations about the characters and their world.

About FINAL FANTASY IX Consistently regarded as among the best of the entire FINAL FANTASY series, FINAL FANTASY IX tells the story of the bandit Zidane, princess Garnet, the shy yet powerful black mage Vivi Ornitier, the loyal knight Adelbert Steiner, and other memorable characters for a thrilling fantasy tale of love, war, magic and self - discovery

Featuring a dizzying variety of works — from paintings and photography to political cartoons and posters — this volume shows how contemporary artists appropriate and recontextualize myth and history to tell powerful new stories about life in Iran.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Charming bronze characters tell interesting and powerful stories about of life and feelings.

But instead of raging against the machine like Mr. Weiwei, Ms. Crosby tells subtle, complicated stories about her homeland, herself and colonialism in a way that's far less bombastic, yet just as powerful.»

The exhibition brings public attention to artists whose art has not been seen, art that tells powerful and poignant stories about African American experiences.

They are a powerful device to further sustainability goals and to tell impactful stories about sustainability, communities, and technology that is reducing the global warming potential of harmful greenhouse gases in ways that benefit people, planet, and profit.

Four to six thoughtful, specific examples, combined with these powerful verbs, tell a story much faster and more clearly than six generic bullet points about «responsibilities.»

Working with an expert career consultant is probably the only time in your career when someone will force you to tell interesting, powerful stories about how good you are.