Sentences with phrase «who get this story»

The man / men who got their stories turned into the Jesus myth were probably ancient versions of such modern people as David Koresh, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, L. Ron Hubbard, Joseph Smith, etc..

But obviously the real stars are the hundreds of artists and technicians who get this story told with so much visual accuracy and wit.

Following in the footsteps of Matthew Vaughn, who gets a story credit here, Singer has a blast going period.

Ray agrees to help aspiring writer Andy (Andy Kindler), who gets a story published in a magazine that has repeatedly rejected Ray.

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I read this book in college, it is an encouraging story of true entrepreneurship and someone who made a vision come to life that I think every entrepreneur should get to know.

«We have gotten so many emails on LinkedIn and direct mail from our customers and readers around the world who say, «Your story has inspired me and my wife to take the plunge into entrepreneurship and start something of our own.»

He's got a little story about his pal the ski instructor who knows that the secret to getting a good tip and repeat business is taking students 10 percent beyond their comfort zone, no more.

Leaders who master the practice of good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story by searching conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up with the right solution.

But the stories of the people who created these acclaimed works are just as fascinating and inspiring as the ones we see in theaters, ranging from partnerships between newfound friends, finally getting to yes after years of hard work and the remarkable work ethics of idiosyncratic minds.

Gravity was flooded with stories from ecstatic workers elsewhere who suddenly got raises from converted bosses who tossed them out like Scrooge after his epiphany — even, in one case, at an apparel factory in Vietnam.

I often tell the story of the ancient general who took his troops to battle and when they got to the foreign shore, he burned all the ships so there would be no option of retreating.

We didn't get our story out early, and there was misinformation about who our company was.

One of Shahid's first tasks was getting Malala's story told in a book, called I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Little, Brown and Company, 2013).

Unless you are one of those rare people who can meet a random stranger on the street, strike up a conversation and get their life story within 30 seconds, approaching someone you have never met before can be nerve - racking.

But if you're committed to wanting to learn constantly how to be a leader and not just get stuck in your own head, around your own ideas and who you used to be, the stories you tell yourself, then I think there is really a breakout.»

What you learn finally is that, if you really own your own stories, you're the one who gets to write the happy endings.

Sharing your story is the first step toward connecting with others who may want to get involved in what you're doing and make your mission part of their own.

In a way, both are designed to do the same thing: Give those who don't normally have access to publishing tools and a media platform the ability to tell their story or get out their message.

We're looking for someone who gets a thrill out of scouring earning reports, economic data, and futures markets for the next big story.

Says Janine Zacharia, who covered the State Department for four years until 2009: «Sometimes you'd be sad if you only got seven hits on a story.»

Universal had heard all the stories of Hopper's erratic behavior over the years, first as an up - and - coming actor who had small parts in the James Dean movies «Rebel Without a Cause» and «Giant» (he admired Dean immensely), then as a bit player on a slew of TV shows, where he got little respect and gave even less back.

There are many more fascinating stories out there about individuals who just started with something and got better as time and practice went on.

But there's been this story told of founders who are just not nice to people and that's what it takes to get ahead.

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

As someone who helped thousands of founders craft their story, here are some tips to get to your startup story in top - top shape.

It's easy to get wrapped up in the stories of college dropouts who made millions (or billions), but they're the exception and there are many more young adults borrowing against their future.

That's a disservice not just to the public but to journalists across the world who go out every day and do everything within their power, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to get the story right.»

Most notably, Facebook is engaging its biggest asset — not its algorithms, but its users — to get the 1.8 billion people who use the platform to identify and call out fake stories.

«But the truth is that for every one of those stories, there are hundreds more about someone with a similarly great idea who wasn't able to get it off the ground.»

While stories abound of scheming business owners who hide money in offshore accounts so that their long - suffering spouses will get little or nothing, it's often the hard - working entrepreneur who gets the shaft.

While our emphasis is on celebrating people's life stories, there's no getting around the fact that millions of our users will be people who have suffered a significant loss.

In fact, if nothing else, you could say that the story of Andy Grove — a busboy who fled a life lived under Fascists, Nazis, and Communists to get an education at an institution free to all, including refugees, then taking that knowledge and using it to help invent an entire industry — illustrates exactly what makes America great.

You've heard the story before — the one about the entrepreneur who stays up all night, sleeps less than four hours, then gets up at the crack of dawn to crush another 80 - hour workweek.

It strikes me, in reading Snyder's collected stories, that the «cool kids» of tech are imposing on women the lousy environment they once suffered through — back when they were the nerds who got teased and hassled.

It tracks the news stories that are getting the most activity, and the site also has a podcast that does the same thing and talks to users who post about those stories.

«People who currently do not have a voice, whose stories don't get told or profiled in mainstream media, they should actually be able to bring out their problems, their issues, their demands.»

You've got to be able to tell the story well enough to get a coder who's as passionate about the problem as you are.

«As my team searched neighborhoods around the world for unique snacks, we've enjoyed getting to know the entrepreneurs who created them, and their stories are amazing.»

«I had someone tell me a story just yesterday who is a server in a restaurant where the guest grabbed their hand in a public area and licked their hand and arm and did not get banned from the hotel.

For grocery shoppers who value «fresh,» there's nothing fresher than a SnapChat story — after all, they've only got a shelf life...

Make sure you don't miss the next edition of How I Started, when we'll get behind the scenes with a story from another entrepreneur who turned ideas into action.

«This isn't a story about a fat, ugly woman who gets beautiful,» she says in an interview.

It's disheartening to me when I talk to senior level marketers who focus so much on getting more people to the website, when they have customers right in front of them that need to hear stories on how to make their lives or careers better.

Her story was published on Mobile Vaani and shared with the Director of Labor department, Govt of Jharkhand, who then got the government machinery into action»

In an attempt to appease those who think Messenger is too complicated, Facebook rolled out Messenger Lite for Android in 2016, a slimmed - down version of the original app that contains just the bare necessities: users only get primary messaging features and none of the bells and whistles such as GIFs, reactions, and Stories.

The New York Times talked personally to those who made investments in cryptocurrencies to see where their investments got them and chronicled their stories.

And though Mr. Trump represents the so - called get, she will also interview two actors (Michael Douglas and Laverne Cox) and a lawyer (Robert Shapiro) who is back in the news after the successful O. J. Simpson anthology «American Crime Story» on FX.

At a certain stage I got fed up with flying all the time and telling stories to people who weren't there, and we managed to organize a trip for 50 engineers to India.

I'm also getting a lot of enjoyment listening to the breathless hyperbole by Nancy «Armageddon» Pelosi, Chuck «Fake Tears» Schumer and the gang denouncing the bill, plus the stories by their allies in the press about the «victims» of tax reform, neglecting to mention the «victims» at AT&T, Wells Fargo and all who are being given immediate raises as a result of the measure.

Certainly, investors hear alarming investment nightmare stories about people who held a large proportion of their personal wealth in their employer's stock and lost everything.3 4 While your client may think, «I know this company because I work here,» that thinking can get them into trouble — think WorldCom and Lehman Brothers.