Never did I think as I stood on the stage of my graduation with a Master degree and high honors that my bright future would be abruptly ended by chronic illness and disability.
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"(Firaxis creative director and 'Civilization' creator) Sid Meier "has a quote -- 'One good game is better than two great games, ' " Solomon said, jokingly referring to Meier as "my lord and master.
Whether I am delivering a speech on leadership before a corporate audience, issuing a final report on business in China to a client company's board, or trying to sell my firm's services, there are three key rules I keep in mind to get over my fears and be a master public speaker.
Several stagers have toured my home, and some of their suggestions have been contradictory: One loved the flowered curtains in my kitchen and the giraffe-print shower curtain in the master bath but said my palm-tree bathroom wallpaper had to go.
So I took my idea and started trying to master the subject matter.
And so I went to try transfer to Queens College, and Jimmy made it a lot easier for me to finish my Master's because, you know, he's a working musician, and he knows that I can't, you know, stop playing just to go to school.
So I ripped up my remarks and quickly brought up our master of ceremonies, David Asman of Fox News.
But I overcame my fears and trained to be a master public speaker.
Most unforgettably, my husband and I were given the master bedroom directly over the falls where light and sound rise from the water below.
Right now I'm finishing up my master's degree, and I applied knowing what the market was out there for Ph.
When it comes to guerrilla marketing, I sat at the feet and very early in my career on the lap of a master: my old man.
It had taken my great-grandfather his whole life to master and play his chosen instruments.
Talking about the game with my son, Josh, an International Master, and later on with former world champion Gary Kasparov, whom I wrote about extensively, I began to understand the art of chess, or rather, I began to "feel it" like music.
After training with master chefs in both Italy and France, I completed my culinary studies at Cook Street in Denver and set up her personal chef business.
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After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life work.
So, I have to tell you that Tenenbaum was an assiduous master to his apprentice, and I honor his crucial role in my development here ijn this writing.
In my upcoming book, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, I explore ways to know, sustain, and protect our focus as we cut through the noise to get our most important priorities accomplished.
He did double duty around the house when I went back to school to get my master's degree, watched nervously as I took a ride on a Harley and silently cringed when I insisted on going parasailing.
Determined to master xiao long bao at home, I quizzed dumpling makers in Shanghai and Nanxiang, checked my notes on visits to the Taipei headquarters of Din Tai Fung and rifled through a multitude of cookbooks.
"My mother referred to it as the family computer farm, " says Blodgett, a master falconer and himself a father of eight.
Here are a few: My oldest son graduated from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 2011 and is now in Madrid earning a master's in translation in Spanish.
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