Sentences with phrase «when story points»

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«It's a shame that the coffee price issue obscured the real story here for so many people, but, once again, this kind of «one - way» data point thinking led investors astray... when it was actually quite strong,» said the «Mad Money» host.

I tell this story to help you know that even when it's the darkest point in your life, you can get through it.

I'll have more on that later this week, but I found the point particularly poignant when learning about Boivin's story.

When you tell a story, make sure it has a clear point and a punchline, whether it's a takeaway or a joke.

«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 Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

The Wall Street Journal won't take your calls, but trade publications, local papers, radio stations, and moderately influential bloggers may, especially when you have something different to say and a story that proves your point.

When a VC asks a founder why they made that part of the product red, or why this button works in this particular way, that founder has the knowledge of 30 user stories and 10 data points that inform them and have colored all of their decisions.

Much like the first Star Wars standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released in 2016, Solo has had some production issues — to the point when Lucasfilm fired the film's original directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, for «creative differences.»

«We know that, when people look at a story, they pick out the stuff that disagrees with them and they point at that and say «This is a biased story,»» he says.

«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?»

There's even one point when Harding's mother criticizes the filmmakers for keeping her out of the story for a long stretch of time.

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.

Two Thursdays ago when the DOW was down 1000 points, what was the catalyst story that everybody said?

Rule 1: You Can't Make Them Up Rule 2: Don't Confuse a Buyer Persona with a Customer Profile Rule 3: Get the Right People with the Right Attributes and the Right Skills Involved Rule 4: Buyer Personas Are a Translation of Goals Rule 5: A Buyer Persona Offers Insight into the Unarticulated and the No - So - Obvious Rule 6: Buyer Persona Development is Not a Quantitative Process Rule 7: Avoid Building a Wire Mesh of Data Points When Developing Buyer Personas Rule 8: Goal - Centered Qualitative and Experiential Analysis is the Foundation of Buyer Persona Development Rule 9: The Purpose of the Buyer Persona Development Process is to Inform on Goal - Centered Customer Strategies Rule 10: Buyer Persona Development Serves as a Communications Platform to Tell the Story of Customers and Buyers

The last point remins me of the fake outrage the happened when Samuel L Jackson read a Christmas story.

The greatness and inviolability of a subject have never yet exempted those who endeavor to find expression for it from the effort of giving their very best from the artistic point of view; and to fail to fulfill this demand when a religious subject of such a sublime nature as the story of Our Lord is involved, is not merely an aesthetic sin.

At that point I hadn't had as much evidence presented to me, and although I tended to believe the story already, I decided to split the public theology from the private behavior when I reviewed The Didache.

I've reached the point in my story when I want all the crazy.

What is particularly noticeable is the way the Genesis flood story follows the Gilgamesh flood tale «point by point and in the same order», even when the story permits other alternatives.

When I pointed out to a friend that the story he had just shared on social media wasn't true, he replied, «well it might as well be.

The one that, when you are reading it, you forget to «look for the main point» and just enjoy the story, the poetry, or the letter which is being read.

Economists sometimes argue that when a society becomes sufficiently wealthy the benefits of increased wealth will trickle down to those who are now poor, but in the countries they cite as success stories, the improvement of the lot of the poor was greatly benefited by governmental action and labor unions, neither of which are viewed favorably from the point of view of the theory.

The shad, like the Concord farmers, have, as he says, a «just cause,» and when he asks what might avail a crowbar against the Billerica Dam, he is pointing, by means of a parable, to a radically new understanding of the story of human existence.

The individual stories still speak at points with qualities of expression characteristic of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology of one sort or another, or by the love, simply, of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.

Ricoeur confirms this assessment, when he affirms that a parable's meaning as metaphor lies not in the story nor in a culture's understanding of Kingdom, but in the juxtaposition of parable and symbol.118 Concurring with this view Funk points out:

yes i have looked at all the evidence and seen at first, all finger pointed to the man and then when the witnesses recanted their stories, would that make you think twice and three times before taking a life.

When surveyed from the point of view of Current evolutionary models, for example, our universe quite clearly has the character of a story.

The whole story was crafted to get certain points across, and there is no need for factual accounting when creating fiction.

When asked what he hopes people will take away from the story, he says, «It's people's capacity to change and people's capacity to connect with one another — the capacity to have empathy and engage with other people with other points of views.»

In fact, the ominous turning point in the story of Israel's experience with war came when its elders asked the prophet Samuel to provide a king like that of other nations.

The point is not human accomplishment or failure but God's compassion and graciousness, the divine generosity which opens the story up when human rejection and anger would close it down.

But while Paul's testimony is, historically speaking, of first - class value, when it comes to the question of the story of the empty tomb and the physical nature of the resurrection, his words, far from bringing firm confirmation of the «bodily resurrection», are open to a variety of interpretations, and, on the whole, point to quite a different view of resurrection.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

I don't know about you, but when these stories hit the news, I'm at the point where I can only sigh and shake my head.

And yes, you're talking about a single event that happened thousands of years ago on a single day And I meant the later, when I ask question, they are generally honest questions, but back to the point, you agreed with me on every, because you assumed that at least part of the story was true, but who is the everyone you were referring to?

-- «And I meant the later, when I ask question, they are generally honest questions, but back to the point, you agreed with me on every, because you assumed that at least part of the story was true...»

A tipping point occurred during a sleepy, 9 - a.m. Introduction to World Literature class when my class read the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian poem purportedly written before the book of Genesis, which tells the story of a worldwide flood, a favored family, and an ark full of animals, only with Sumerian gods and heroes at its center instead of the familiar Yahweh.

In the story of Paul's address to the Athenians, it is at this point that conflict becomes acute between his faith and theirs: «When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked.»

I need only to ask: if you wash your feet before prayer, and when the last stoning was that you attended: to get my point across... but you did say I had to answer in a coherent manner...:) Yes, the jesus story... one of those that many love to argue about, even me at times in my life have i taken the position of «he never existed»... but most of us know he did, the only real question is his divinity.

Phrygian to me i sense that you are struggling with issues in your mind that you cant reconcile and these issues are affecting what you believe in your heart and therefore your faith in God.I had something similar happen to me recently regarding the story of the demon possessed man at one point the demons begged Jesus to cast them into the pigs does that mean that Jesus was implicated with the work of satan.It cast my mind into doubt and then i began to question who God is.I prayed and sort the holy spirit for an answer the answer i got was that Gods character never changes he is always holy righteous and sovereign why else would satan ask for his permission.So the answer was that he allowed satans purpose to prevail so that we can see that satans intention is always to destroy it may well have been that the pigs were his anyway.As they were for the gentile nations who offered the pigs to their demon Gods.Just as satan can not change who he is the destroyer the thief the liar God can not change who he is when we realise that despite what we see going on in the world God is still the same yesterday today and forever.The time is coming when those that have hurt others will be judged for there wickedness as we serve a holy and just God.Just as it was in the times of Noah so it is with this this generation that as the wickedness reachs its zenith then the Lord will return to judge the nations.He is coming again and we need to be ready it is not a time to be caught sleeping.brentnz

The problem surfaces, however, when our story gets pushed down in a feed that is constantly piling up with other stories and other memories, to the point where we become nostalgic about the moment we just captured seconds after it has passed.

That is the point which is most important to me in the story of Balaam and his ass, and perhaps because I loved this story as a child, I responded to it with particular affection when I returned to it as an adult.

Even many of today's Christians, who in other respects may be regarded as being very liberal in their outlook, have been inclined to rest their faith on the historical reliability of the resurrection narratives, as pointing to at least one incontestable miracle of a supernatural character, and they have been alarmed when the «Empty Tomb» stories came to be regarded as legendary.

Oh... forgot you Proving... I wasn't referring to what he said... on the surface, it's fine to have a point of view... whether I agree with it or not... but when you are A) in a position of influence and B) spending money to fight the opposing view... and it's to stop two people who love each other from wedding in the eyes of their Lord, then it is hate... if your ignorance allows you to think my comments are stupid... so be it... and one last point about slavery... whether it was Democrats or Republicans who supported, or fought against slavery... many justified slavery because of their perverted interpretation of the bible... most people can't tell a simple story from one person to the next... but so many foolish Christians think they know exactly what the bible is saying w / o any doubt... forget the fact that it's been translated and passed for 1000s of years... yup you must be right that God is against two people loving each other... He must have made a mistake with those folks huh?

Too often we pay too much attention to the miracles themselves, when the real point of these stories is not that Elijah could bring down fire or that Jesus could heal people or walk on water.

When Christians relay their stories as if their original «conversion» moments didn't actually count, just because there was a more powerful turning point that happened later along the road that makes for a better story, the truth is being infringed upon.

Luke was making this point when he revised the story of the call of the four fishermen to an encounter that dropped Peter to his knees confessing:» «Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.»

Growing up in church and even today i do nt like when preachers share stories, there are plenty of things to addresses and pastors have a tendency to get carried away and not get to the point they are trying to make.

I won't recommend frankenmon — the program that spits out a three point sermon, complete with illustrations, and stories, when one gives it a couple of verses, and a topic (given John 12:20 - 28 as the lead pericope, the software can create a three point sermon that advocates anti-natalism)-- under any circumstances.