Dr. Smalley delivers his standard speech with the careful pacing and calm of a scientific paper rather
than the passion of a plea.
Not exact matches
I have a particular
passion for understanding how to transform a group
of individuals into a high - performing team, as a great team does more for a company's results
than anything else.
Yet, according to a study by Deloitte University Press, more
than a third
of firms struggle to instil purpose and
passion in their staff.
Their
passion for travel and e-commerce is evident: In the beginning, they dug deep and interviewed hundreds
of travelers to learn everything about how and why they travel, and ultimately translated their insights into lightweight, yet durable pieces
of luggage that are much more affordable
than high - end brands.
But it's not just that your
passion is a better determinant
of how you'll act in any given situation
than your personality, it's also that your personality itself is less fixed
than many quizzes suggest, as Rosenfeld's personal experience illustrates.
Studies show that people who are able to pursue their
passions at work experience flow, a euphoric state
of mind that is five times more productive
than the norm.
Abid has
passion and drive which would be uncommon in most contexts, but which exemplified the delegate base
of more
than 100 female entrepreneurs that converged in mid-July at the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) conference in San Francisco.
Perhaps even more impressive
than the revenue growth is the
passion GoPro's users have for its products, as expressed by the flood
of GoPro videos spreading across YouTube and Facebook.
There can be thousands
of people smarter, faster, more connected and more talented
than I am, but I know that my
passion can go further toward achieving my goals — especially when those who are used to coasting on talent or privilege may not be as driven or focused.
Combine this insatiable demand for talent with a sub-cultural shift
of regarding labels such as «nerd» and «dweeb» as positive indicators
of nuanced
passion rather
than pariah - like brands, and you end up with many more people interested in coding.
Entrepreneurs who focus on their
passions tend to be more successful
than their less passionate peers, and there are plenty
of ways to find your
passion and turn it into a thriving business.
She has more
than 30 years
of experience in business, program and engineering leadership and is actively involved in many community activities, with a
passion for STEM education.
One
of the reasons he was able to scale Facebook to having more
than a billion active users is because he had a
passion for programming and coding.
In 2007, a paper published in the Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology described perseverance and
passion for long - term goals as «Grit» (a non-cognitive trait that measured persistence), and rated it
of equal or greater value
than IQ and talent.
«I would rather invest in my employees
than pay the cost
of them returning exhausted and with less
passion for their work, or worse, leaving us later for another company with better benefits,» she says.
This advice may befuddle generations
of guidance counselors with their insistence that love should precede career choices rather
than follow them, but Newport isn't the only person challenging the
passion orthodoxy.
Many oft repeated truisms are more about wish fulfillment
than reality (sorry peddlers
of endless, uncritical «follow your
passion!»
Studies have shown that people who are able to pursue their
passions at work experience flow, a euphoric state
of mind that is five times more productive
than the norm.
The amount
of research, outlining, writing, rewriting and hair pulling that goes into crafting a great book requires more
than the «nonchalant attention» you'd devote to a side hustle or
passion project.
Ben - Ishay's
passion has translated into a business with more
than 300 employees and 14 locations on the East Coast, with a focus in New York City, along with the launch
of macaroons.
Jennifer is an award - winning financial journalist and digital strategist with more
than 15 years
of experience in print and digital media and a
passion for personal finance.
Led by the
passion and dedication
of employees in our local offices, Franklin Templeton volunteers take part in more
than 400 community service projects annually.
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Aside from startups, his
passion is sailing, and he has logged more
than 10,000 coastal and offshore nautical miles with his longest sail
of a 22 - day non-stop Pacific Ocean crossing to French Polynesia.
Jennifer is an award - winning financial journalist and digital strategist with more
than 15 years
of experience in print and digital media and a
passion for personal finance.Prior to joining Acorns, she was Personal Finance Editor for CNBC Digital.
«The
passion Holland is showing with their commitment to the campaign is further evidence that Holland is part
of the strong trucking community and wants to bring positive recognition to the more
than 7 million people who work in it.»
People with disabilities demonstrate the same
passion, independence and self - direction as all Americans, and given certain characteristics — including being on average older and less educated — it is not surprising that the rate
of self - employment for people with disabilities in the labor force in 2011 was about 50 percent higher
than the corresponding rate for people without disabilities -LSB-...]
Retirees with adequate savings and pension income can take a more leisurely approach because the venture is often more about
passion than a pot
of gold.
Few executives show more public
passion for March Madness
than the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - A) CEO, whose contest for Berkshire employees this year offers a prize
of $ 1 million per year for life for correctly predicting the Sweet Sixteen, or $ 1 million for nailing the first 32 games, or $ 100,000 to the person whose bracket remains perfect the longest.
His desire to break up the most successful company
of all time as measured by percentage gain in value per year is a
passion born
of the passing
of a social mood peak
of even higher degree
than that
of 1929.
He surveys Catholic literature from the end
of Vatican II to the present and finds dynamic writers with «personal visions
of faith fueled by idiosyncratic
passion rather
than orthodoxy.»
Partnering with organizations like WorldReach (who allows you to sponsor children) and Charity: Water (who lets you tell your friends to donate instead
of getting you a birthday present every year) or finding a cause like ending human trafficking, supporting education or assisting the homeless can represent more
than just one - time gifts or temporary
passions.
And no doubt Aristotle had something like that in mind when he suggested that Socrates» proposal would do more
than combat divisive
passion; it might also dilute a sense
of concern and responsibility for those who come after us.
One
of the things I highly value, and I wish the church would, is mutual
passion for truth and the well - being
of all people, rather
than its own security or agenda.
As Robert Louis Wilken has noted on more
than one occasion, Maximus the Confessor's use
of the phrase «blessed
passion of love» evokes ideas that were important to Christian tradition.
It gets under our skin, hits us at a level deeper
than our thoughts or even our
passions, troubles oldest certainties till all questions are reopened, and in general shocks us more fully awake
than we are for most
of our lives?
And if I were a Plato in sentimental enthusiasm, and if my heart beat as violently as Alcibiades» or more violently
than that
of the Corybantic mystic while listening to the words
of Socrates; if the
passion of my admiration knew no rest until I had clasped the wondrous master in my arms — Socrates would but smile at me and say: «My friend, how deceitful a lover you are!
As a result, our fourteenth and fifteenth chapters
of Mark can be analyzed into two, or even three, classes
of material: (1) the old, traditional
passion narrative
of the Roman church, ultimately derived from Palestine; (2) the additional material inserted into it by Mark, some
of it perhaps from Palestine, some not; and finally, (3) some verses which may be later still, inserted in the interest
of the risen Jesus» appearance in Galilee rather
than in Jerusalem.
Atheism is a religion, whose god is mankind, self, and science, through the power
of reason, logic, and intellect, whose prophets are Darwin, Dawkins, and Hitchens, and whose disciples zealously seek converts with more
passion and fervor
than other religions.
When the
passion for worship and service is gone, the church loses its soul and is no more
than a shell
of former life.
The third term is affectus» a term referring to those movements
of our feelings that kindle within us admiration for our beloved and a desire to be with her, feelings
of compatibility and comfort, feelings that tend to have a longer run
than hotter
passions, and yield in daily life a quieter security.
Then the organic complex will have been constituted
of God and the World, the Pleroma — the mysterious reality that we can not do better
than call simply God, since although God might dispense with the world we can not regard it as being wholly an accessory without rendering Creation incomprehensible, the
Passion of Christ meaningless and our own struggle uninteresting.
In the Gospels
of the New Testament more attention is devoted to the healing ministry
of Jesus
than to any other subject except the
passion story
of the last week
of Jesus» earthly life.
Wonder, on the other hand, slowly became «the ruling
passion of the vulgar mob, rather
than that
of the philosophical elite».
Lewis knew his skill was writing, and once that tidal wave
of wonder washed over him, he saw no other way to express his gratitude,
passion and hope
than to devote his entire life to writing about it.
Though the lack
of poetry and dignity in the Good News translation is sometimes tiresome, the decision to go with this translation was, in the end, infinitely better
than Gibson's use
of Aramaic in his
Passion.
Seeing these details alive in the lives
of other baptized people ignites youthful
passion in teens more
than any youth event or personal sense
of purpose ever could.
And hence it is that worse
passions, or a worse degree
of them are to be found in persons
of great religious zeal
than in others that made no pretenses to it.
«Whether it is ignorance or fear, or both, that inspires this conduct in them, certain it is that the
passion for novelty is always united in them with hatred
of scholasticism, and there is no surer sign that a man is tending to Modernism
than when he begins to show his dislike for the scholastic method.»
I mean the burning
passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice
than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply
than other kinds
of power.