Sentences with phrase «years becoming the person»

When many of us go home for the holidays, we're headed to a familiar place — a place we spent many years becoming the person we are today.

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Jackie Stone, CMO of MiMedia, a personal cloud storage company, told Business News Daily: «I've worked in digital media for more than 20 years, and as we become more connected, more people have decided that staying «on» 24/7 is socially acceptable — and it's not.»

«We were very quietly dating for about six months before it became news, and I was working during that whole time, and the only thing that changed was people's perception,» the 36 - year - old «Suits» actress also said.

Even if Tesla doesn't become a mass - market brand, sales in China alone could soon climb to 100,000 a year, impacting Tesla as intensely as a new, 1.4 - billion - person market would Coca - Cola.

In the last few years, ironically, credit bureaus that handle reports on people refinancing mortgages have become big customers of factors because the banks to which they sell the reports are experts at cash management.

Over the years, I've seen many people become millionaires.»

«After the first couple of years it became a must - have for many people, including hardcore fans and more moderate fans of the game.

Dale Carnegie once said, «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

And who knows how many people would have become more ill, or even died, had Riley waited until he was done with college, or grad school or spent years in the workforce before pursuing his goal?

«It's becoming far more common, people are having their kids older and they're using these technologies that weren't available to everybody 20 years ago,» said H&R Block senior tax professional Valorie Elgar.

To pull it off, Catullo's team had to get over 180 permits to do the shoot, create a perimeter around the Acropolis that included over 400 security people, bring in their own TV truck and all key gear from the U.K., and become the first production granted permission to film at the Parthenon in almost 60 years.

Forty - six years ago this summer, Neil Armstrong and Edwin «Buzz» Aldrin became the first people to walk on the moon.

I told everyone for years, «I'm not a morning person,» and I believe my hatred of the alarm clock was one of the primary reasons I became an entrepreneur.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

Bitcoin has soared more than 1,600 percent this year as people rush to buy the digital currency in the hope it will become a legitimate alternative to gold or traditional money.

Even though only about 6 percent of Chinese people have a passport, China has become the world's largest outbound tourist market, with more than 135 million departures a year — and Angkor Wat is an easy two - or three - hour flight from many cities in China.

Five years ago, at age 7, he became the youngest person to solve a 3 - by - 3 Rubik's cube while blindfolded.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

If we spin things forward over the next several years as the Machine becomes something that people use, what kinds of challenges do you expect and what are some of the key things that need to be accomplished?

The series has broken a number of network records and its season - four premiere became the most watched nonfiction episode on cable ever with 11.8 million people turning in (half of those viewers came from the advertiser - loving 25 - to 54 - year - old demographic).

In recent years, this has resulted in more and more people becoming financially and emotionally dependent on the service, say the former employees.

Wilmot Collins, 54, made history this year when he became the first black person to be elected mayor of a city in Montana.

When he hits the mark, Bezos, who started selling books from his garage 22 years ago, becomes the first man to bump Gates from his perch in seven years and is only the sixth man to hold the «richest person» title in the past 30 years, according to Forbes.

In the 31 years since the Walkman was introduced, it has sold about 220 million units and changed the way people interact with their music — it became such an important part of popular culture that it even earned a spot in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986.

Buffett became the third richest person in the world this year, while Musk cracked into the top 100 at number 94.

«Mad Money Manifesto» by Jim Cramer: For years I have been trying to help people like you, who own stocks and feel like they're on the outside looking in, become better investors.

What started as a niche concept just a few years ago has become a large - scale and viable way for people to invest directly in promising ideas, which creates a new pool of funding while allowing small investors to reap the financial rewards of contributing to successful ventures.

Think of customers as friends you hope to influence by remembering the following wisdom from Dale Carnegie: «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

Avid readers have loved the Kindle for years, but as more people «go digital,» it's becoming even more popular.

How many times have you seen a person who won the lottery lose it all and become broke five or six years later?

Even after seven years of this, Buzhunashvili remains surprised by how ingrained his service has become in people's routines.

As the workforce becomes more virtualized next year, we're going to see further disruption in how people are paid.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — About four years ago, the Google team trying to develop cars driven by computers — not people — became convinced that sooner than later, the technology would be ready for the masses.

There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

By doing this, the 43 - year - old from Austria became the first person to break the speed of sound wearing only a high - pressure suit.

For instance, HSBC gave the Chinese yuan 4/10 for aggressiveness in 2013, down from 6/10 a year ago, as the People's Bank of China becomes increasingly «hands off» and moves the yuan towards convertibility.

With economies of scale the cost of solar power has plunged much faster than many people expected — and some are actually arguing that solar will become cheaper than fossil fuels within the next few years.

And here's a sign of how quickly things move in neuroscience: Earlier this year, another paraplegic man, Rodrigo Hübner Mendes, became the first person to drive a race car solely with his mind.

The ban became effective in July last year, with a new clause inserted into TfL's advertising policy stating that ads can be rejected if they «could reasonably be seen as likely to cause pressure to conform to an unrealistic body shape, or as likely to create body confidence issues particularly among young people».

Roberts was a 23 - year - old art student when he made the first of the Little People — the dolls that later became known as Cabbage Patch Kids.

Google of course pioneered 360 photos years ago with Street View, the ground - eye - view function of its Maps app that has since become indispensable for people trying to find their way around.

But put their pay up against the partners they're trying to become — people who could take home $ 1 million or more a year.

So you look at certain people when they've been around for fifteen or twenty years and get to a level of seniority, their weaknesses become exaggerated either because they become ingrained or because they're just more exposed at a more senior level, and so people need to compensate for their weaknesses.

In the last few years, diversity has become somewhat of a buzzword, and having a diverse group of people working together is seen as a boon.

But since 2008, the 43 - year old founder of the pest control company Bugs Are Gone has been visiting both state and federal penitentiaries, mentoring people on how to become business owners.

At a time when the music industry is dominated by three major labels - Universal, Sony and Warner - will.i.am told CNBC that programs like «The X Factor» and «The Voice,» which he has been a judge on for two years, provide a valuable means for people to become successful artists.

An estimated two million people become infected with drug - resistant bacteria in the US each year.

I provide these benchmarks every year because I firmly believe people can become better investors over time even through the briefest of analyses of what they did, and what they might have done differently.

«It's more like showing people, «Hey, this is becoming real, that your stock options will materialize,»» Widrich says, «instead of you joining and saying 10 years from now if we ever IPO, you get some of that stock.»

Most fitness studios list the instructor's name beside a class on a calendar, but for the first four years, Fields simply listed the class time and format to avoid people becoming loyal to any one instructor and reinforcing the idea that a particular instructor was exceptional.