Sentences with phrase «they were any good at school»

My kids are by no stretch perfect, & at home, he's as all boy as they come, but by all accounts he's good at school.

«I was good at school, but Fabio was better,» he said.

I was furious, told him no way in hell, and when we talked he said, «Mr. Johnston, I'm not afraid of that, not because I'm Superman but because when I was younger wasn't even worth working hard because even If I knew I was good at school what good would it do?

Ultimately, his goal was to make a difference in the lives of students, especially the ones who did not think they were any good at school.

Ben thinks: I'm so dumb — everyone is better at school than me.

Not exact matches

I didn't recognize I was good at advising others on their careers, nor was I aware I had such a strong passion for this job until after many career - shaping decisions had already made (aka law school).

But those universities that are left standing, he says, will have to do a much better job at identifying talented students, who can't afford to pay $ 61,000 a year for school.

They work well in private high schools, but they're unnecessary at work.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«What remains to be seen is the game plan, the sequencing, the processes involved as well,» John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School, told Bloomberg Television.

Make sure an introduction includes the statement «I'm a student at...» This especially works well when networking with graduates of your own school.

That tendency towards anxiety is at least helping you perform better at school, work, or wherever a sharp memory will help you get ahead.

I found some good research from Harvard Business School, Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship, which suggest that serial entrepreneurs that have prior success are more likely to have success, and that the best VCs are good at picking serial entrepreneurs.

Woodman had always harbored a dream of being a racecar driver, and once sales of the digital camera were going well enough, he indulged himself by going to racing school at Infineon Raceway, in Sonoma.

He was featured in Crain's «40 under 40»; awarded Irish America's Business 100 profile four years running; and was honored to be guest speaker at The Wharton School of Business on entrepreneurship and leadership as well as Cornell and DePaul Universities.

Less - well - off people who attend state schools, community colleges, or no college at all are already way behind the entrepreneurship curve before they've even hit their 20s.

For Kersi Antia, marketing professor at Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, that's got to change — the sooner, the better.

Their research is a good example of the kind of highly technical macroeconomics conducted at «freshwater» schools from the 1980s to present.

The complete post is well worth reading in full if you're feeling a little at sea at your new school (or if you're hoping to offer some guidance to the college student in your life), but here are a few of his tips in brief in get you started.

Those Happy Meals were a rare treat, and I worked hard to get a good report card or an honor at school just for a visit to the Golden Arches as a reward.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

Professor Harry Kraemer at the Kellogg School of Management, author of Becoming the Best: Build a World - Class Organization Through Values - Based Leadership, tells me that being a social entrepreneur has very little to do with how much money you have or the number of people who report to you.

After all, he understands better than anyone how important resources are to veterans transitioning to civilian life: Parsons enlisted in the Marines at age 17, heading to Vietnam straight out of high school.

My smartass ways were not playing well at my new rural school, where corn - fed country boys were disinclined to rhetorical thrust and parry.

School reputation and fit was a deciding factor for another 20 percent, while 19 percent said they landed at their school because they believed it would lead to a good job or cSchool reputation and fit was a deciding factor for another 20 percent, while 19 percent said they landed at their school because they believed it would lead to a good job or cschool because they believed it would lead to a good job or career.

Siegel, who has done MBA admissions at both Emory University's Goizueta School of Business and Northeastern University, says it is one of the best pools she has seen since joining the school in the fall ofSchool of Business and Northeastern University, says it is one of the best pools she has seen since joining the school in the fall ofschool in the fall of 2009.

It's not easy to implement in the face of the fierce resistance to change, which may be the only thing that many schools are still really good at.

Rather, when clients looked at their agenda and saw that they had a meeting with the Wexley School for Girls, McAllister wanted them to get excited and to know that it would be the best part of their day.

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

A good way to leverage anxiety, according to a research study conducted at Harvard Business School (HBS), is to reframe it by seeing its existence as a source of strength rather than of weakness.

While the first 100 days of the newly minted dean augur well for Kellogg, there is still much work to be done at a school that has lost momentum, if not its edge, among the...

The number of applicants showing up at the school's information sessions around the world is down as well.

While the first 100 days of the newly minted dean augur well for Kellogg, there is still much work to be done at a school that has lost momentum, if not its edge, among the business school elite.

He maintained a punishing travel schedule, which included commitments to at least 18 outside organizations at various times, such as the board of Xerox (XRX), the U.S. - China Business Council, and the Business Round table, as well as personal interests, such as chairing the board of visitors at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (his two children are Duke alums).

«It's like tennis — I can't guarantee how good you'll be if you take a course,» says William Gartner, a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

«The main result of this analysis is that the best clients of the aware brokers are significantly more likely than other clients to sell the stocks that the liquidating manager is offloading during the fire sale,» wrote Marco Di Maggio, assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

«The better able you are to get inside the head of your opponent,» Adam D. Galinsky, professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, wrote in the Harvard Business School's Negotiation newsletter, «the better your negotiated outcomes are likely to be.»

Although DMARC is not the only way to block these attacks, it's a very good one, said Giovanni Di Crescenzo, an adjunct professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering who researches phishing.

Todd Zenger, a professor at University of Utah's Eccles School of Business, wrote in the Harvard Business Review last year that pay transparency is «far from a panacea... [and] a double - edged sword, capable of doing as much — or more — damage as good.»

«In terms of how much is present in water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statement.

There was no better way to become a popular kid in school or to accomplish middle - class family peace and happiness than an afternoon at McDonald's.

«I'm looking at colleges that have a great film school program as well as science,» he told USA Today.

New research by Dr. Leanne ten Brinke at the Haas School of Business suggests that, while most of us have pretty good instincts when it comes to recognizing liars, we tend to talk ourselves out of believing (or, at least, acting on) what our instincts are telling us.

It began when Parsons was a ne'er - do - well fifth grader at a Catholic school in his native Baltimore.

Marc - David Seidel, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, argues that Apple's rise wasn't due to technological prowess, as many assume, but best - in - class marketing and design.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

«Many federal integration programs are not working particularly well,» says Naomi Alboim, a fellow at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.

«In a small city, it will be easier to get to know the best service providers, such as lawyers, your banker may likely be someone you know, and you can more easily create a name for yourself,» said Chuck Sacco, assistant dean of strategic initiatives in the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

He told me that when he taught at Tufts University's Fletcher School, he would ask his students what was best — a knife, a fork, or a spoon?