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If it doesn't challenge you, it will not change you.
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Tamika L. Sims
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So long as the people with the power - to hire and fire you, approve or deny your loan, or write up your speeding ticket - look at you through the lens of institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia or any other -sim they've learned form stories, videos, media and other biased individuals, a single win means nothing. We cannot effect true change alone.
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Kameron Hurley (The Geek Feminist Revolution)
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O segredo, dizia Chang, o chinês da loja, não é descobrir o que as pessoas escondem, e sim entender o que elas mostram.
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Marçal Aquino (Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos Seus Lindos Lábios)
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You're right, Margaret, absolutely right. Things have changed a lot, even since I've been here. It's a different place now. Better in some ways, worse in others."
"Better!" she echoed, scornfully.
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Jonathan Coe (The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim)
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The Greeks love the idea of fate — in a completely morbid way, of course. Most of the stories of how people are trying to change or avoid their fate. But everything they do just brings them that much closer to it.
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Tara Sim (Timekeeper (Timekeeper, #1))
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Evan stares at me.
I try to hug him. He takes a step back. I pause, my heart in my throat. I’ve got to reach out to him, let myself be vulnerable. I find the courage, but he backs up again.
“You can’t go to Iraq anymore.”
“I know.”
He looks up at Deanna, then back to me. “Did you fight bad guys? You told me you weren’t.” His voice is suspicious, full of accusation. He doesn’t trust me, and I don’t blame him for that.
“No, Evan. I didn’t fight bad guys.”
I can’t bring myself to tell him the complete truth. I want so desperately to go back into this fight. I miss it every day. I always felt I could change the world with a rifle in my hands and our flag on my shoulder.
“Did you get shot?” he looks me over, apparently searching for bullet wounds.
I grin a little. “No, Bud, I didn’t get shot.”
“People get shot in Iraq.”
“Yes, they do.”
It strikes me then that Evan for the first time has a grasp on the dangers that are faced over there. He’s six now, and the world is coming into focus for him.
“People get shot, Daddy. They die. Bad guys kill them.”
I think of Edward Iwan and Sean Sims.
“Yeah, I know they do, Evan.
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David Bellavia (House to House: An Epic Memoir of War)
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The Enhanced were a society. A machine. And no matter what the sims said about the power of a single solitary hero, there were some things just too big to change alone. There was nothing she could do but help herself and Owl.
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Becky Chambers
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Henry yearned to instill in the students a delight in knowledge as much as he wanted to drill them in a particular subject. Vividly he explained one of his favorite themes, the seasons—their source in the tilt and rotation of the Earth and its revolution around the sun, their relationship to the changing lives of animals and people throughout the year, their parade of strikingly different forms of beauty. Such talks made learning seem central to the enjoyment of life rather than some kind of adornment—and, Henry hoped, it set a tone for the school day. Henry
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Michael Sims (The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond)
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What is the purpose of education? Is it to impart knowledge and facts or is it to nurture curiosity, effortful problem solving, and the capacity for lifelong learning? Educational historians have repeatedly shown that today’s schools were designed during the first half of the twentieth century to meet the demands of the industrial era, not an innovative knowledge economy. “Very few schools teach students how to create knowledge,” says Professor Keith Sawyer of Washington University, a leading education and innovation researcher. “Instead, students are taught that knowledge is static and complete, and they become experts at consuming knowledge rather than producing knowledge.” This is unacceptable. Change
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Peter Sims (Little Bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries)
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Wenner began a campaign to get his parents back together. Sim told her son she wanted him to call only every other week to reduce her phone bills. “Your demand that Dad and I be something to each other that we’re not, is basically a child’s demand,” she wrote to him in 1959, when Wenner was thirteen. “One stamps one’s foot and says, ‘Change the world and I will be all right!’ and it’s a nice comforting thought to have, but the world can’t be changed, families can’t be changed, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers…There is only one thing that can be changed, or rather, only one thing that you can change, and that is yourself.” (“Maternally yours,” she signed the letter.)
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Joe Hagan (Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine)
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With a digital description, love is like a cell phone, and the sex is its Sim. One may change the Sims.
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Ehsan Sehgal
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The insights and ideas that were obvious to Yunus the anthropologist had been hidden from Yunus the economist. The difference: by absorbing poverty from the worm’s-eye view, asking lots of questions, and being open to changing his assumptions, he could understand what he could not from a bird’s-eye view. He could feel Sufiya’s poverty. And it was here, in the marrow of poverty, where Yunus discovered the insights, ideas, and passion to formulate his breakthrough idea. The abstractions were gone.
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Peter Sims (Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries)
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status quo bias. This research demonstrates that people do not like to change unless there is a compelling reason to do so, such as an attractive incentive. Related research shows that people exhibit strong “loss aversion,” in that they are twice as likely to seek to avoid losses as they are to acquire gains.
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Peter Sims (Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries)
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a ênfase não está no crescimento da congregação como estrutura – em números, finanças e sucesso – e sim no crescimento do evangelho, à medida que ele é pregado e pregado de novo sob o poder do Espírito” (pp. 45-46)
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Colin Marshall (The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything)
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Martin." Sims said.
"Jon." Blackwood said.
"Tim." Tim said.
They all looked at him.
"Oh, sorry, I thought we were saying names."
Sims grinned, shaking his head. "Never change, Tim."
Tim shot him finger guns. "You got it, boss.
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CirrusGrey (Yesterday is Here)
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The stab that I'd take with this situation the moment I felt ready I spoke to my mother lately when I'm old be fore I marrid by that I didnt what i expected from her instead she didnt notice the pain that i'd eexperianced through. To heal myself I forgave her,accepted my situation learn to live positive in it.In the side of forgive the group of men that raped me continueosly I decided to live my home town to start new life another town where I meet with my soul partner God provided with handsome suitable guy as I had issued with men it took God's misterious ways to connect us he's my friend and prayer partner God blessed us with two sons and one doughter, he
continue on helping us on raising our kids again i deed decision of raing our kids for myself by being house wife thanks God and my husband to be succed i 'm not perfect but i tried with God help and my closest friends,family it heppening.As i developed anger, sensitive and other unneeded personality throught my issue activities like body training,blogging,podcusting,reading bible and other booksk,being author,listing music special gospel help me to be in right position.The thing i can ask or say to other to other people is "Women Please love and protect your kids let stop this take quick action to help them if you see suspetious thing be close to them in a way that you manage to see if there's something not right heppen to them cause sometimes they will not tell you like on my case in any reason usualy strangers or rapist make them not say anything or your communication with them is not strong enough or any reason they make them shut To the community let protect each other be your sisters or brothers keeper on your neighborhood or in house
report the susptious act cause tomorrow will heppen in your house.Men you are the master protector not rapist stand your ground as God do trusted you with kids and women protect them stop taking advantage who ever does that.To those who like me the victim of rape I'm your girl to use alcohol,drugs and sex edict throw shame and unclean feeling is not solution it only running away act ask yourself that how long you'll runing away with cancer that eating you alive,face by allowing God to be your sim card, rica him and let him operate in you by rebuid you make you a new creation spiritual by acepting Jesus Christ as lord and your savior, healer and believe that God raised him from death in your special prayer with your mouth loud as confesion as I deed you'll be safe 100% in his arms like I am your story will change completly as mine finely no one knows you better dont allow situation explain you you beautiful handsome valueble God love you more than every one and he cares about you I love you'll take care of yourself youre the hero &herous.
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Nozipho N.Maphumulo
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Exercise 3: A Future With Anxiety I want you to close your eyes once more. This time, I want you to see yourself in five years' time. Imagine that you are staring into a mirror, looking at your reflection. But what I want you to do is this: imagine that you have never recovered from your health anxiety. Imagine that your anxiety has not only remained but become worse over the five years. Notice how you look – do you look a lot older? Are there bags under your eyes with all the stress and anxiety? How do you feel about yourself as you look at yourself in the mirror? It's okay to feel sad as you visualise this. It's okay to be upset. Let yourself visualise this future for five minutes and turn the page. Sometimes this can be a powerful awakening. I remember when I first tried it at the height of anxiety I burst into tears. As I say, it's okay to be upset by this but remember: this doesn't have to be the future. You have the power to change this. You may well have been fighting anxiety for the last five years – it doesn't mean that you have to be for the next five. In your notebook, please write a few sentences answering the following question: If I let anxiety control me in five years' time, how will this affect my life? You might want to write about how it will affect your relationships, your career plans, your social life. Will you be sleeping well or waking up early and worrying about your health? Once you've finished writing this, turn the page and let's move on to the final exercise.
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Darren Sims (Conquering Health Anxiety: How To Break Free From The Hypochondria Trap)
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Exercise 4: A Future Without Anxiety. Just as before, close your eyes and imagine yourself in front of a mirror in five years' time. Only this time, your life is no longer controlled by your anxiety: you are the one in control of your life. You can do all of the things you want to do in life without worrying about panic attacks and silly diseases. You've stopped checking for symptoms on the internet – you have realised that there is so much more to life than that. You are so content with life and proud of yourself at your own recovery, as are the people around you who love you. Feel free to talk out loud about how happy you are. Feel free to laugh. Feel free to sing out loud. Whatever is natural for you. Remain in this place for five minutes (or longer if you'd like, I'm not going to stop you!) and when you finish, turn the page. See, visualisation isn't all that hard, is it? I hope that it has given you a sense of inspiration on how you can change. Do you want to spend the next five years with the dull cloud of health anxiety lingering around your head? Or do you want to get your life back?
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Darren Sims (Conquering Health Anxiety: How To Break Free From The Hypochondria Trap)
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Another game-changing project is the BRCK, pronounced “brick,” created by the same team behind Ushahidi and iHub. On a flight back to Africa from the United States some years ago, Hersman looked down on our vast, rugged continent and wondered why it was that most routers and modems were built for the first-world comfort zones of, say, New York or London, whereas most Internet users actually live in the harsh, far less comfortable environments of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The team sketched out a design for a rugged portable connectivity device that could work in remote conditions where electrical power and Internet connections were a problem. The result is the BRCK, a sturdy, brick-shaped, cloud-enabled Wi-Fi hotspot router from which you can access the Internet from anywhere on the continent that is close to a signal. It has an antenna, charger, USB ports, 4 GB of storage, a built-in global SIM card and enough backup power to survive a blackout. The device sells for $199 online and is already being used in 45 countries around the world. Consider the provenance: designed in Nairobi, Kenya; manufactured in Austin, Texas. This is a complete reversal of the standard manufacturing paradigm. Again, an example of African technology going global.
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Ashish J. Thakkar (The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa's Economic Miracle)
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Agile processes of all kinds share one thing: they embrace change, approaching it as an opportunity for growth, rather than an obstacle.
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Chris Sims (The Elements of Scrum)
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anyone who has worked on an enterprise-scale software project knows that the only thing you can count on is change.
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Chris Sims (The Elements of Scrum)
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Não há duas classes de cristãos – os cooperadores e os espectadores. Uma igreja... expressa isto por não ter ‘membresia’ na congregação, e sim ‘parceria’.” (pp. 75)
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Colin Marshall (The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything)
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O âmago do treinamento não é transmitir uma capacidade, e sim transmitir sã doutrina.” (pp. 80)
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Colin Marshall (The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything)
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Foi não somente um bom depósito do evangelho que Paulo passou a Timóteo, e sim uma maneira de viver.” (pp. 80)
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Colin Marshall (The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything)
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One way that the product owner maximizes ROI is by directing the team toward the most valuable work, and away from less valuable work. That is, the product owner controls the order, sometimes called priority, of items in the team’s backlog. In scrum, no-one but the product owner is authorized to ask the team to do work or to change the order of backlog items.
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Chris Sims (Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction)
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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
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Chris Sims (The Elements of Scrum)
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There was a town all made of sticks,
Which new men came and changed to bricks.
They tore the green grass from the ground,
Drowned out the silence with their sound.
They choked the air, destroyed the streams,
Which woke the forest from its dreams.
With vengeful heart, its blood did boil,
It pulled them down into the soil.
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Sim Alec Sansford (Welcome to Denver Falls (Denver Falls Saga Book 1))
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And no matter what the sims said about the power of a single solitary hero, there were some things just too big to change alone.
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Becky Chambers (A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2))
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You’re early,” Felicity says to Sim as we walk toward the harbor. “I thought I’d have at least another year before you changed your mind and gave me up.”
“Yes, well.” Sim’s mouth twitches, that taut intention she always carries there almost certainly holding back a smile. “I missed you.
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Mackenzi Lee (The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3))
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But you think sometimes about what the real world is. Just what your brain mixes together from what your senses tell you. We create the world in a lot of ways. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that, when we’re not being careful, we can change it.
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Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives: Season 2 (Magnus Archives, #2))
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A culture of small bets is a learning culture in which people discover the right paths to new destinations. In these organizations work is often less like executing a blueprint and more like crossing a fast-moving stream by jumping from rock to rock. Decisions are made in the moment, without perfect information, and people experiment by changing variables, staying in motion, and conquering their fears, with the ultimate destination always clear in their mind’s eye. “This takes skills we don’t learn in school, even business school,” author Peter Sims explains.
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Jason Jennings (The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change)
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Instead of leasing buildings in a traditional manner to multiple larger tenants, coworking companies lease entire structures and then sell these leases at a higher rate to members, a/k/a tenants. A change in use, not physical form. Combine that with the intangibles of inventive branding and experiential activation, and you’ve transformed one of the largest industries in the world—commercial real estate—sim- ply by changing the way people perceive it.
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Alan Philips (The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential)
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Urinalysis is a useful tool for monitoring these changes as well as for monitoring your recovery.
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Stacy T. Sims (Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life)
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Google started as a small library search project; Starbucks had no chairs and nonstop opera music at the beginning,” Sims says. “Great entrepreneurs didn’t start with big ideas, for the most part.
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Jason Jennings (The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change)
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KISS A LOT
OF FROGS “The successful don’t start with brilliant ideas … they discover them!” —Peter Sims, best-selling author
and venture capitalist
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Jason Jennings (The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change)
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What we are describing is a mindset change from “doing my job” to “doing the job.” It is also a change in focus from “what we are doing” (work) to what is getting done (results).
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Chris Sims (Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction)