Sentences with phrase «told stories of a time»

He loved to tell the story of the time when he was complaining» boasting, really, in the guise of complaining, the way young men do» about how busy he was and how he didn't want to fly to Cincinnati to give again the speech he had just given in Chicago.

Harry Ironside tells the story of a time when he was first beginning to pastor as a young man, and he went home to California to visit his family and found a man of God living nearby who was from Northern Ireland.

I think I would have enjoyed it just that much more if we could have had 20 - 30 minutes more, at least, of Wally telling us stories of his time in the NBA.

The native inhabitants of the Willamette Valley told stories of a time the valley filled with water, forcing everyone to flee up a mountain before the waters receded.

It tells the story of my time volunteering as an art teacher at an anti-trafficking organization, Odanadi Seva Trust in Mysore, India.

This look at Carnegie Museum of Art's 1750 — 1850 collections combines new acquisitions and longtime gallery favorites to tell a story of a time of explosive changes.

Each song tells a story of time and space thorough the beholders eye.

Telling the story of a time when human prizefighting had been abolished, it starred Lee Marvin as the owner of a broken - down robot boxer.

Can you tell us a story of a time that you persevered through a then - challenging situation which now serves as a great life lesson?

So, you should be telling stories all of the time.»

Puig De Missa is an historic area with a church that tells a story of a time when pirates were among the most frequent visitors to this beautiful shoreline.

As if ancient relics recovered from some archeological dig, his paintings are like modern hieroglyphs each telling a story of a time and place, that of the here and now.

It tells the story of a time when thirty - something artists worked in their studios and were visited by a guy in a suit, with a chequebook and fountain pen.

This means, as has been discussed here before, that anyone who cares about jogging societies to act in the face of looming threats — whether in the media, sciences, education, arts or elsewhere — would do well to stop pointing fingers and get busy experimenting with new ways to tell the stories of our time as humanity's growth spurt crests.

Tell the story of a time you resolved an issue.

Not exact matches

For example, if I started as an online marketing professional by facing a traffic challenge on a small - time ecommerce site, I can tell that story, while providing a lot of great advice.

Winfrey vowed to keep telling the stories of women and men, and specifically the courage they've embodied during life's most trying times.

Of course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane CanucOf course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canuck.

Many nonprofits are created from a story of change, growth or pain and telling that story compels people to give their time and / or money to the cause.

«Yesterday, seeing Sonny Boy for the first time in 20 years, it was incredibly overwhelming, and I went to bed last night, just thinking to myself, that often we tell the story that in the last 30 years (that) extreme poverty has halved, but in some ways, I think that masks the present reality of suffering for so many people living in extreme poverty.

I tell the full story of how Karpelès found the Bitcoins (details he revealed for the first time in our conversations) and the stranger - than - fiction implications of Bitcoin's price surge in my new feature in Fortune, «Mt. Gox and the Surprising Redemption of Bitcoin's Biggest Villain.»

And as Roberts tells me a story about his first investment — in genetic sequencing company Illumina — the guy in the black tee and blue jeans in a Marriott full of suits is either in mid-grin, or in mid-guffaw, or both somehow, the entire time.

Time and time again, visual content outperforms others in terms of grabbing attention, persuading consumers, and telling a stTime and time again, visual content outperforms others in terms of grabbing attention, persuading consumers, and telling a sttime again, visual content outperforms others in terms of grabbing attention, persuading consumers, and telling a story.

The fledgling company pushed past other troubles by raising money, although Hindy told of a period of time when he had to pick up a second job, editing stories at Newsday, to get by.

Also, when you spend a lot of time with people you tend to notice patterns in how they tell stories and what was reassuring to us was to hear a source tell the same story the same way months later, as opposed to the facts always changing.

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.

In fact, when people talk informally, 65 percent of the time they are telling stories, according to research by evolutionary biologist Robin Dunbar.

«Look for times when you can make a point, tell a story to reinforce it, and collect your rewards from the faces of the people around you.»

But this type of story is not for amateurs and takes time to prepare and tell.

Host Amanda Boleyn went through a similar journey when she quit a corporate job five years ago, and now, she's devoted much of her time to telling stories that will inspire others to stop thinking about their dreams and start chasing them.

Free law advice: A driver once told me a story about how he had a high - priced lawyer in the back of his car during a time when he was going through a legal issue.

He tells the story of a patient, a first - time mother who complained that her young son was always clinging to her, wrapping himself around her legs wherever she went.

Rendle tells the story of why he left «a very comfortable job» in 1999 to join the North Face, which at the time was struggling and losing money.

In - depth, thought - provoking and generous, the piece tells the story of Gabriel's previous life as a chronically late working mother and is packed with details that many time - crunched business owners will identify with.

Bush told CNBC on Wednesday that he was unaware of the Times story about FBI agents being interested in the tape during their raid of Cohen.

However, Scott told the Times that if he knew of the Mars water before production began he would have changed the story.

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

«I've been contemplating that for a long time and trying to figure out how we can use VR to tell stories and transform lives and transport people to places they've never been, and introduce perspectives they've never even thought of.

And so this is really kind of an old story,» she told Time.

He tells The New York Times that the filmmakers took Avery's side in telling his story and failed to mention several key pieces of the state's evidence against Avery.

This weekend proved not just the lasting power of «Black Panther» but that a Hollywood studio like Disney can release multiple diversely told stories in theaters at the same time — and they can be profitable.

As Sonia said, your prospect is the hero of their own journey, so sometimes you're literally telling helpful stories (like case studies) and other times the story is simply the change in the prospect's life thanks to your content and eventually product or service.

Wired has called gamification an enemy of great support, and while dissenting opinions often point to cases like Microsoft and the increased productivity they saw when implementing gamification, the numbers don't tell the full story — a lower response time does not mean your team is doing a better job of taking care of customers.

You could tell stories of real frictions, our stock of real and human capital was not set up to produce non-tradeables or something like that and so we may have an increase in the natural rate of unemployment for a time.

A similar measure, «usual weekly earnings» of employed, full - time, wage and salary workers, tells much the same story, albeit over a shorter time period.

Since 2015, the Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, the Fox News prime - time host Bill O'Reilly and the comedian and actor Bill Cosby have suffered professional, financial or reputational setbacks after numerous women told stories of their sexual misconduct.

A.M.I. told The Times last month that it decided not to print Ms. McDougal's story because it could not verify important details, though it acknowledged discussing her allegations with Mr. Cohen, the president's lawyer, saying it did so as part of its reporting process.

«I think it's time for the CEO, Mr. Zuckerberg, and other top officials to come and testify and not tell part of the story, but tell the whole story of their involvement — not only with the Trump campaign but their ability to have their platform misused by the Russians,» Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told ABC News.

The laws of competition and competitive strategy are now very much at work within the private equity industry, and we can see the best funds putting their real endeavors behind that, not only so they've got a good story to tell at [the] time of next fundraising, but also to deliver the great returns that their investors are expecting.

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