Sentences with phrase «thinking at the stories»

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First is a catalog pagination meeting — we look at all the product that is coming for our summer book and think about how we're going to bring it out and the stories we'll be telling.

You might look at all the «success stories» out there and think perhaps it's something that you are doing wrong.

Western - based global brands such as Starbucks and Unilever have done a remarkably good job at telling their social stories — think about 100,000 Opportunities and the Dove Self - Esteem Project.

But you may not know that the traditional way we think about storytelling — to create a big, sweeping hero story — is not the most effective way to use the technique at work.

Journalists at the Star have been asked to think differently about how they tell stories, to write shorter pieces and to experiment with multimedia.

Reporters excel at writing headlines and stories that they think are interesting.

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

«I think that every novelist has a single ideal reader; that at various points during the composition of a story, the writer is thinking, «I wonder what he / she will think when he / she reads this part?»

While Ctrip originally thought the money it would save in space and furniture — about $ 1,900 per employee for the length of the study — would offset a drop in productivity, at - home worker output wasn't hampered a bit, Bloom reported in a story for Harvard Business Review.

This toolbox should consist of relevant and thought - provoking stories that you can tell at any time when you're with people.

the New York newspaper asked, offering plenty of photos to help readers make up their own minds about the story of a woman fired from her job at Citibank because, she claimed, her managers and co-workers thought she was too attractive.

«I think we're kind of past the point where anybody would look at it and be like: «Oh, well, that story's fantastic but I hate it because it's being sponsored by a brand,»» Spiers said.

Though the Canadian Business of the 1930s covered many topics that wouldn't seem out of place in the 21st century — rising taxes, truth in advertising, the imminent death of the airline industry — it also ran many stories the editors of 2013 likely would never touch («The story of safety glass») or would at least think twice about («The «social» diseases and business: what is syphilis costing Canada?»).

«We think we're buying this asset at the right time and with the combined teams... we're going to have a stronger story in the marketplace and I think we could put the Coveris Americas assets back onto the growth rate,» Olivier told analysts.

You can always make up a good story about something you think you've learned, and no matter how bad things are going, you can always find at least one chart in Google Analytics that is up and to the right.

And then when we, I think John Markoff wrote a story, discovering that we were testing and driving the vehicles in public, that's when all the car companies realized at the first level that something might happen.

ZINO: Yes, no, I think at the end of the day the way we «ve hit we have to look at this is, hey, listen, iPhones are probably not going to be a growth story for this company going forward, but that being said, I think the fear that had been built into the stock in the sense that, hey, you know, we «re going to look for the you know significant declines are the iPhone business is also not going to happen.

At press time, that number continues to grow by more than 1,000 emails each day, with individuals sharing their stories and impressing upon our elected officials that a sober second thought is needed to avoid far - reaching, negative consequences.

Rubin's decision to share his story about financial losses at Goldman Sachs where he «weathered the storm» using his magical existential thinking stands in contrast to Citigroup's condition with Rubin as the long - tenured Chair of the Executive Committee.

Remember, the vast majority of the world thinks it's impossible to consistently make more than 10 - 20 % / year returns so everyone eats up boring, conservative, diversified mutual funds and long - term investments, at their most speculative being in giant companies like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG)... viewing inspirational stories like this turning $ 1,500 into $ 1 million and and this international trader and this teenager with skepticism...

Executives of banks and other financial institutions of all sizes have grown to rely on International Banker magazine's cover stories and featured articles for inspiration as they seek to challenge themselves to take a fresh and objective look at their businesses, to «think outside of the box», to consider new ideas and angles.

Now I like the comment David has at the end of his post «One would think this claim would be a major news story, but so far not a single mainstream media outlet in the entire West appears to have reported it»

If you asked me who my mentor is, I could name you at least 20 people that transformed my thinking with their stories, ideas, careers, and actions.

He thinks the market is also unfamiliar with the management story behind the company and equates it to the story of Rose Blumkin at Nebraska Furniture Mart.

Founder and CEO of Think Dirty Lily Tse explains how she was successful at getting the word out about her company and the importance of being authentic when telling your story.

If the stories told about the era are true, the Christians» greatest shortcoming was that they thought their strict monotheism prevented them from making the token offering to the emperor, who at the time was viewed as a deity.

The two loser kidnappers at the heart of the story begin by thinking that they have no personal significance whatsoever.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

What a remarkable thought — that at every communion, every Easter service, every cathedral and every tent revival, from Israel to Africa, to Europe to China, this woman's story should be on our lips, right along with Christ's.

Our friends at Zondervan have created the most fun and thought filled Bible when it comes to teaching our kids about Jesus and the lessons in the stories.

That isn't glamorous — it makes a good story later but at the time, you've got two babies in the tub and one napping and you're lactating and you are trying to wrestle down a lot of big thoughts about patriarchy!

Final thought: As I mentioned early on in this thread (September 15, 2014 at 11:39 pm), I was one who watched this story unfold five years ago.

I honestly don't think that most people at that level of EV leadership at the time knew the whole story, or knew that they were being used to shutdown calls for accountability.

While I can not myself question Julie based on my knowledge, I think it is fair to at least point out that there is legal documentation and testimony to support that Julie's side is not the only side of the story.

compared to the old there seems to be a whole different god or that god has changed i think i am going to trust studies — at least they state the margin of error, the religious stand by the bible as fact, the word of god... it would seem your god is a moron who can't keep his story straight.

I think it would be a powerful story - especially as the generation that lived through this is dwindeling, I feel it imprtnat to keep these stories alive so we shall never truly forget!!!!!! If anyone knows how I can further this story i would love to hear from you at [email protected].

I imply agree with their thought process which is straight forward, no twists, no saying this but meant that, no distortion, no fabricated stories, just straight at you information so you can make a clear decision.

I know Warnock is mostly addressing the many people, probably myself included, who he thinks don't have anything directly at stake in this story.

I thought of that this morning when I sat down at the computer to blog about the past week or two because I don't have any manifestos or soapbox rants right now, I don't have any thing worth «sharing» with your Facebook friends or pinning on Pinterest, it's a little story of our family's days the past while here.

The short version is: I don't think the Exodus did happen in historical time, but that doesn't at all detract from its powerful spiritual truth, or from the ways we've constituted our community through telling this story in the first person plural, and through embracing the teaching that the Exodus didn't just happen then but unfolds even now.

At the end is the familiar story in which someone complains to a psychiatrist about a man who thinks he is a chicken.

And, based on what I read in this story, I think Jesus will look at me with a half - smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye and say, «Since you have been faithful in a few things, I will make you faithful in many.

And though it may seem abstract, even small, I think this single thread of wonder — this thread of tireless thankfulness and awe at what he'd been undeservedly given, at what he saw in the beauty of creation and in the story of the Gospel — is what binds all of Lewis» work together.

The conclusion, then, that one of these narratives is legend is by no means intended to detract from the value of the narrative; it only means that the one who pronounces it has perceived somewhat of the poetic beauty of the narrative and thinks that he has thus arrived at an understanding of the story.

It is an astounding detail when you think about it: The God of all creation, the One who knows every corner of the cosmos and fathoms every mystery, the One who could answer every theological riddle and who, I suspect, chuckles at our volumes of guesses, our centuries of pompous philosophical tomes debating His nature, when present in the person of Jesus Christ, told stories.

Explicit didacticism, the tendency to spell out a story's moral lesson, seems at first thought to represent a countertrend to the prevalence of antiheroism.

It's a good story, but at the end of two hours, you think, «What a waste of time that was!

So, when a kid gets older, does she yell at Santa, wonder if Santa hates her, think of Santa as evil, or just realize Santa was a made up story.

Well, it's a slightly polemical remark, directed at those Christians who think Christianity is simply a matter of the community of faith telling its own story, and who don't even want to discuss issues of the historical Jesus because they think the Bible and the tradition have told us all we need to know.