Sentences with phrase «d is a real thing»

It made me glad to know that if it had been the real thing, there was no way any adult in the house would sleep through it because, according to FEMA, the leading human factor contributing to fire related injuries in homes is being asleep.

Getting enough vitamin D is a real thing, my friends.

Or that Spotify's direct listing would be a real thing.

Not exact matches

We get so candid that we start revealing things we wouldn't declare in the real world; and that is where the actual problem lies...» Excellent point!

Now, it's more of technological wonder that when I visit Walmart's website, the first thing it does is ask me if I'm ready to reorder a slew of products I put into a real cart in a physical store, even though I've never ordered these things via the website.

We get so candid that we start revealing things we wouldn't declare in the real world; and that is where the actual problem lies.

As a result of social media, participants also admitted to neglecting their loved ones, driving recklessly, being humiliated while snapping selfies in public, and posting things that they would never otherwise say in real life.

These many decades later, I'm now a heart surgeon myself who has always looked toward better and faster ways to do things, believing that if the good ideas percolating in the medical community could only become real products, they could improve and even save lives.

We have seen periods of time, particularly if you go back a century or two, where there were real markets, say, in the UK, and you typically had inverted curves and that reflected a number of things.

Money turns out to be an emotional thing, and there's this latent interest in having a real relationship with somebody you trust.

Eventually, anyone using an Apple device would be unable to tell whether they were using the real thing or a version that had been altered by officials to be used as a spy tool.

That's a terrible thing in America, where a guy who has been a company commander in Afghanistan or Iraq goes to try and get a job at a tech company, some 25 - year - old HR weenie asks them if they've ever had a real job.

In our world of trying to make everything bigger and faster, the challenge for companies ranging from SAP to Google (GOOGL) has been how to get more information into the DRAM, because if you want real - time data processing (for example, the Internet of things or for business transactions) you want jobs performed right next to the computer processor.

Hike it up in Canada and you'd hurt exports, one of the things that are supposed to help keep the economy growing as real estate and consumer spending slow.

The coat also allowed her to dress the part of a successful businesswoman and to project confidence in the cutthroat real estate industry, she tells Raz: «It was the smartest thing I could have done with the money because, in it, I felt powerful.»

Overkill is a real issue and customers are very sensitive to changes in the ways you've always done things.

Quite literally, stories are able to transport our mind to another place, and in this place we may embrace things we'd likely scoff at in the «harsh, real world».

We have four to six participants, and the conversation is modeled on exactly what the real thing is like.»

That's fine, but to get somewhere in life, to do great things, you have to have real mentors in the real world.

I had a lot of anxieties about moving into my first apartment, and while I think the roomies and I did a great job at making our apartment feel like a real home, there are definitely a few things we could have thought a bit more about before moving in together.

«We've been building more and more real - time stuff around voice and video, and we'll continue doing more real - time things and that will potentially come to games,» he said.

A drop in funding for tech startups has triggered a cooling - off of the region's torrid real estate market, and that's a good thing.

«The only thing you don't have is any real customer data,» Blank says.

I'm at a point in my life where «wedding season» is about to become a very real thing, and I wanted something fun that would make me feel like the life of the party, even when awkwardly sitting to the side of the dance floor.

The San Francisco startup has developed a plant - based substitute that's both cheaper and healthier than the real thing.

«The thing that kept me going was remembering what it would be like [having] a real job,» says Taintor.

It's no sure thing that artificial intelligence has progressed far enough to endow characters with the smarts needed to make them appear truly real and interesting.

But in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, we started noticing that young people were doing some awfully significant things, whether in the financial world (Meredith Whitney had just made her bold call against Citigroup), in the tech world (Facebook was beginning to crank into high gear), or in other industries (Kevin Plank's apparel upstart Under Armour was giving Nike a real run for its money).

In some ways, it's almost better than «training» in the real world, because you have constant feedback and can pay more attention to things like your current heart - rate and you fluid intake.

At this point, I'm not saying yes or no to anything, but we've built our brand and our business around being honest and authentic and real, so for me, as long as we can find those things within that world, then yes we can make it happen.

After reading my new book, Real Leaders Don't Follow, an old friend and business associate who's had a long and successful career, Ziv Azmanov, sent me an email that, among other things, does a pretty effective job of explaining what distinguishes real entrepreneurs from the pReal Leaders Don't Follow, an old friend and business associate who's had a long and successful career, Ziv Azmanov, sent me an email that, among other things, does a pretty effective job of explaining what distinguishes real entrepreneurs from the preal entrepreneurs from the pack:

Look, if you want to be just like the opportunistic parasites who write that sort of self - help style nonsense but have never actually run a real company, produced a genuine product, developed an expertise, or done a single thing to help anyone but themselves in their entire lives, be my guest.

«The next thing you know, you have this company built around all of those decisions and you're successful and you have real money, but then it takes a huge revolution to make change,» says Poon Tip, who was at a loss for how to manage the company that had grown beyond his original vision.

«This means they lose some, but it's a drop in the bucket in their process to create things that will have a real influence,» said Jon Elvekrog, CEO and co-founder of San - Francisco - based social advertising firm 140 Proof.

I've written about financial checklists before, and the concept is simple: a checklist is a list of dumb, obvious things that you know you're supposed to do, but in the hustle and bustle of real life, you will forget one or more of them.

We certainly get a mental boost from seeing them, but that can be a bad thing: Research has shown these motivational pick - me - ups can trigger the same kind of psychological reward as doing the work itself, treating us with endorphins we don't deserve and actually reducing our capacity to do real work.

For one, people may be spending so much time on social media that they have less time to get out and do social things in the real world.

There are plenty of other digital footprints we leave such as websites we visit, the frequency with which we visit them, things we google, what apps we download, people and things we search on Facebook, how many internet friends we have, who we interact with often, where we go in real life (phones have a GPS system and motion sensors), etc., etc., etc..

... Short of a real disaster in markets, I think the Fed is going to have to look through this market thing and not get pushed around by the markets all the time and get scared into not doing anything.

It's a lot harder to ignore half a dozen real users saying those things to your face and showing you problems that they're having in real life.

Now that I've made this distinction, we can cover the three things that you absolutely must do first if you're serious about generating some real money online.

It's sort of like a real - life version of Guitar Hero or Rock Band, except instead of slapping away at a series of buttons — an act that has just about zero relation to the real thing — you're strumming away on an actual guitar.

As boring as it may sound, having a reputation for reliability and dependability and getting stuff done is the best thing that people in the real world can say about you.

I then have the energy and the brain power for things that are real decisions I need to make.

A private one would have been hard because then we would have had to say «Oh, they are doing this and doing that,» without any real tangible things to point at.

«We've seen plant - based products for 40 years,» he says, «but they are basically still substitutes that are very different from the real thing.

In some scenarios, simulated training is superior to the real thing: Not only does it eliminate the risk of accidents in high - risk jobs, it has been proven to shorten instruction periods and increase people's abilities to remember what they learn.

I think there's something like $ 18 billion or $ 19 billion spent on surveys, focus groups and things like that, and yet now you have this real - time voice of the customer.

Yep, it's as if the whole darned thing never happened and we have to analyze whether that's a correct judgment or is it just fanciful and a real bad call.

The overwhelming power of business to raise prices at will means in a full employment situation where labor would otherwise be able to fairly bargain for a real wage increase, instead, things blow up (spiraling inflation, that 70s show).