Sentences with phrase «i was no good at waiting»

I quickly learned that I was no good at waiting.

I've never been good at waiting.

Self - regulation was measured with a four - items based on the Kendall Wilcox scale (e.g., «I am good at waiting my turn»)[43].

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With most small businesses having to wait 72 days on a 30 - day invoice, it is better for you to set it at 15 days.

And it's earned plenty of positive word - of - mouth support by doing its best to smooth the nerve - fraying experience of air travel — the long wait times, the heightened emotions — with friendly service, says Hanna, a partner at Toronto branding firm Trajectory.

I have three tasters out today seeing how good the food is and how long the wait is at local hot spots.

«It's always better to get to the end of your experience and have extra money for your re-entry or your nest egg,» she says, adding that the exact amount of money you need varies depending on whether you plan to travel or stay planted in one location, what activities you plan to do and whether you have a job waiting for you at the other end.

«The price points are lower, the food quality happens to be better at a lot of these places, and people don't want to sit, wait, and get served and sometimes get bad service.»

The average taxi and wait period during the summer is almost 11 minutes, or about 2.7 times the wait time at the best airport, San Diego.

If you haven't done the best job in the past of diversifying your communications, content, featured experts, or even the people you have at all levels within your company, don't wait to get dinged for it by someone who is frustrated by it.

Ainsworth also thinks it could be a good buy, but he too recommends waiting at least a few months.

Take me: I'm good at working hard and staying focused and delaying gratification and grinding — especially at unusual pursuits, like doing juuust a few too many pushups in one day — but do I actively cultivate a steady stream of things I can't wait to do?

«Doing nothing is hard at first,» he allows, «but if you get good at it, you don't even have to wait until you are on a plane or dining alone.

At best, today's artificial hearts are used to buy patients time as they wait for a human heart transplant.

And let's not forget the well mannered personal robots that were eagerly waiting to greet us at the door.

To make sure waiting is a good option, work through all the potential claiming strategies available to you (and your spouse), said certified financial planner Megan Olson, a wealth manager at Accredited Investors Wealth Management.

(It's a good idea to check the contents of your «Waiting For» folder at the end of each day.)

Whether it's slogging through a muddy obstacle course or brainstorming on how to better serve our customers, I can't wait for my next chance to work hard at a difficult challenge with my team.

«If an employee is sitting there waiting for the number to drop, they're not engaged in the conversation, at best.

Gannett waited until Tribune released its annual financial filings in March, in order to get the best - possible public view of its deteriorating financials (a look that may have been clouded by the serial misadventures of Tribune financial irregularities, disclosed here (POLITICO: «Fixing the financials at Tribune Publishing»), and which resulted in the firing of the TribPub chief financial officer).

Hence, the EU is better off taking its stand at the Iran deal than waiting for it to be scrapped and emboldening Trump further.

If so, just wait until the next price shock (petrol is now at $ 1.14 per litre, give or take a few cents, in Ontario now) really hits proud owners of these new trucks and you will be able to buy a slightly used one at a good discount price.

It is really about picking up nearly 2 percentage points more of yield while waiting for Mr. Carney to act on rates, at which time, it would be best to switch to shorter duration holdings.

Wait no not that at all, he runs Goldman Sachs Asset Management, «the smallest division at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and usually the last one investors ask about,» but one that is having a moment recently, since it's performing well (both for customers and for the bank) and provides the sort of recurring fee - type revenue that you don't really get in prop trading.

If it's a new patio set you've got your eye on, you'll have to wait until September or October to get one at a good price.

There is also considerable skepticism whether quantitative easing will do any good at all, especially since the central bank has waited so long.

While it's true that you may end up collecting benefits for the longest period of time by starting at age 62, if you can afford to do so, it's generally best to wait at least until your full retirement age (FRA).

If you're shopping for a high - rise condo in Toronto at the moment and your agent has your best interests in mind, he or she may give you just one piece of advice: wait.

«If you're not feeling well at 8 p.m., you don't have to wait until morning to see me,» said Dr. Ken Redcross, an internist in Eastchester, New York, who started a concierge practice in 2007.

It was a bit frustrating to wait about 5 days to pull out a portion of EOS so that I could reallocate and pull original capital out, but I know that sleeping well (and peace at home) is more important than sweating well!

As a dividend investor this is what you have been waiting for, the opportunity to buy stocks with better yield at lower cost!

The incoming data from the US has been choppy at best and hence it would be difficult for the Fed to think about accelerated rate hikes at this point of time but that is also something that the investors would wait for the Fed to confirm before pushing the prices higher again.

Better still, an even more defensible position is staying out of the market entirely, holding cash as you wait patiently to strike at the right opportunity.

However, if you can afford to wait for funds, we suggest you shop around to get the best deal as average APRs at OnDeck are quite high.

If Christians are supposed to be waiting until marriage for sex, they aren't doing a very good job at it.

I talked to my local authority yesterday and not only do they have no properties at all, but we have a huge waiting list for social housing, and the private rented sector is running incredibly hot as well, so where are these people to go?

The recent «These neutrinos are moving through the Earth faster than light oh wait nevermind this fibre cable was loose» at CERN is a good example of that.

As children we are told about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny and all that good sense.But as we get older we realise «wait... a chubby old jolly man makes toys for all the boys and girls in the world and delivers them all to them at night... That cant be true because first off you cant possibly do that in one night an reindeer cant fly.

It would seem to be preferable to say that: while the crowd clamors and shouts and triumphs and celebrates; while one individual after another hastens to the place of tumult, where it is good to be if one is in search of oblivion and indulgence from that which is eternal; while at the same time the crowd shouts mockingly at God, «Yes, now see whether you can get hold of us»; yet since it is difficult in the rush of the crowd to distinguish the individual, difficult to see the single tree when one is looking at the wood, the sober countenance of eternity quietly waits.

When someone in his own or another profession is prepared better than he to perform a service, he refers as soon as he can — and does not wait until he has tried everything and is at the end of his rope.

So WHAT IF — the bible is really just a compilation of what ever was equivalent to the NYTimes best sellers at the time and people liked the books so much they read it over and over again and some people even got carried away and treat it as if it was a religion... oh wait... doesn't that notion sound a lot like Scientology?

Baker reports about the response to one of his six - day preaching tour: «The men of four villages wished at once to cut off their top - knots, and asked for baptism forthwith... I said that faith and patience were the life of Christ's people, and that a profession of this nature could not be put on and off like clothing: they had better wait;... But they said, «You must destroy our devil - places, and teach us to pray to our Father, as you call Him, in Heaven, or some beginning must be made.»

The best way that I could see my way through at the time was to stay, not rock the boat, and wait for the prime opportunity when it presented itself to get the heck out of there.

I think its a good thing that there is a trend of college students that are rethinking hookups, and at least waiting for a more substantial relationship to have $ ex.

Well... that may be true Amniculi, I'll have to take a look at his thyroid today, but I'm at least going to wait until after breakfast... I peered into his dining room and couldn't see past the mounds of food.

It is infinitely comic that at the bottom of the practical wisdom which is so much extolled in the world, at the bottom of all the devilish lot of good counsel and wise saws and «wait and see» and «put up with one's fate» and «write in the book of forgetfulness» — that at the bottom of all this, ideally understood, lies complete stupidity as to where the danger really is and what the danger really is.

Well, we recently had our elections here in Rutherford County, and it's humbling and sad all at the same time ¯ humbling to see the number of folks who give themselves selfishly to causes they believe in, humbling to see men and women subject themselves to the mauling they get when they run for office, humbling to see folks waiting to vote in the heat of this miserable Tennessee summer we're having, but also sad to see how insular and crimped a lot of us have become.

I couldnt wait to get back to the barracks and I never have been inside a church since, well actually I did try a bible study at the on base chapel later that week and came to the same result, I did NOT fit in at all, I did nt think like any of the other guys and I couldnt pretend like the others were doing.

I am waiting for clarity on what I'm going to do... besides blogging and cartooning here at nakedpastor, as well as working on my art.

Most of us can handle aggressive, angry, hostile people much better when we know we have a loving, supportive family waiting for us at home, and a loving, supportive group, be it a church or a social club, with whom we will gather to escape a hostile world and support one another.