Sentences with phrase «about living up to»

All this negativity usually falls into a few different categories: negativity about your writing, negativity about the writing industry, and negativity about living up to expectations.

It's now been launched and has to go about living up to the hype Honda has generated.

However, when the responsibilities of his role are revealed, he feels his old anxieties about living up to expectations beginning to surface.

Another complaint I have is more about living up to expectations but it's still a valid one: Resonance pushed the envelope of the genre by adding an inventory of «ideas» to the usual collection of items and Gemini Rue added a combat system.

If politics is about living up to the historical moment, David Cameron failed utterly, showing himself to be more interested in Tory election results than the toxic politics which overtook British politics last week.

If you are nervous about living up to what is promised check out this Huffington Post piece that shows what eight different types of small businesses have done to prepare for the day.

Terrence Malick's latest film, The New World, managed to just about live up to my immense expectations for it.

Not exact matches

It might be hard to remember, but Facebook was once considered a disappointing company that failed to live up to its potential for about a year after it came public.

«Start - ups are going to talk to a reporter about their fundraise, it will hit the media — they won't have filed their form in advance — and then, apparently, they will be ineligible for 506 for one year,» Joe Wallin, a start - up lawyer in Seattle, pointed out this morning as he live - blogged the hearings.

Life is often about being able to take a great opportunity if it comes up, but I have found that I often would overly schedule my life with good things which would actually thwart my ability to take those great opportunitLife is often about being able to take a great opportunity if it comes up, but I have found that I often would overly schedule my life with good things which would actually thwart my ability to take those great opportunitlife with good things which would actually thwart my ability to take those great opportunities.

I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who's been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stares into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family.

And although our eyes can perceive thousands of colors, the way we communicate about color — and the way we use color in our everyday lives — means we have to carve this huge variety up into identifiable, meaningful categories.

We wandered towards the nearest hotel and didn't worry much about standards it did or did not live up to.

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.

I am proud that entrepreneurs no longer run up to me and boast about the millions they are making — they brag about the lives they are changing.

Here are a few things I learned at the J.P. Morgan Health Conference this week: (1) Vice-presidential motorcades tie up as much traffic as presidential ones; (2) San Francisco hotels have no compunction about charging pharma - sphere prices, especially when the city is overrun by pharma executives; (3) no one will ever know if you brought more than one blue blazer to a four - day meeting; and (4) in my next life I want to come back as Bryan Roberts.

When Jobs would wake up in the morning, he would look in the mirror and ask himself, «If today was the last day of my life, would I be happy with what I'm about to do today?»

For our 20 questions series we caught up with Daniella Yacobovsky co-founder of BaubleBar, to ask about work - life balance, her inspirations and more.

So to hear Rae talk about standing up to a room full of network execs, her new bosses, and fight for two insecure black characters who have messy lives and are fully realized as complex characters?

«You find some definition of what the company is all about, then all of the brands that bear that name must live up to that promise.»

If you struggle to come up with an answer, you may want to think about your life's real purpose.

They opened up about what drives and inspires them — from the struggles and mistakes that led to life - changing lessons to family influences and secret quirks.

The battery life should last about a day but I still need to test the phone more to see how well it stacks up against the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus.

Michael's apparent plan involves using data, which the company has access to through its app, to dig up information about Lacy's personal life, then publicly distribute the compromising information.

Tonight, «CEO Whisperer» Tony Robbins opens up to physician David Agus about his own private pain — and the life - changing lesson he drew from it.

And iCloud, the company's service to back up photos, video, documents and user settings over the Internet, has laboured for years to meet Apple's «It Just Works» standard without ever living up to expectations (internal frustration with the situation boiled over last fall when Apple insiders talked — anonymously — to reporter Jessica E. Lessin at tech news site The Information about the business unit's disarray).

The Vidyo team is from all walks of life, and our employees learn more every day about each other's diverse cultures, backgrounds and traditions, and face - to - face inclusion across the board constantly opens our managers up to new ways of approaching each challenge.

Christianson adds that he's heard horror stories about kids hitting their parents up for money or asking them to guarantee their mortgages later in life.

Think about what's realistic, and do your best to live up to your word.

I used to live behind a slaughterhouse, and what I remember most about growing up in the country is the sound of cattle lowing in the night as they were waiting to be offed.

Make a Facebook group or hold weekly catch - up Skype sessions and talk a little about life away from work to try and encourage personal relationships.

By hosting a giveaway you provide people with incentive to show up live and you also give them more reason to share what you are talking about.

For example, if you write about business and consumer tech for a living (like someone we know), you can set Flipboard up to deliver a steady stream of the latest articles from technology - focused sources like CNET, GigaOM, Engadget, TechCrunch, Wired and however many other topic - relevant publications you like.

Following a 2009 memoir about his mobbed - up life and the launch of a consultancy business, Mob Rules is Ferrante's latest effort to leverage his underworld past.

I know I have a few friends who talk a big game about things they're going to do with their lives, but they never end up following through.

That's probably not on the cards anytime soon though (unless you live in one of these States), but if you're personally concerned about how setting the clocks ahead might affect your own health or decision making, you can try to get ahead of the change by gradually acclimatizing to the new schedule in the days leading up to the switch.

«Night of the Living Dead,» made for about $ 100,000, featured flesh - hungry ghouls trying to feast on humans holed up in a Pennsylvania house.

Salary plus bonuses for a job well done, the ability to work from home if your child is sick or something comes up in your personal life, consistent celebrations throughout the year, and free snack bar during year end so you don't have to worry about food and can save some money over the holidays.

This disconnect between consumer 3 - D printing's usefulness and the flurry of media coverage it continues to generate helps explain why, according to the research group Gartner, the technology is about face a backlash when it fails to live up to our collective expectations.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

And while he's been honest about his personal life and his experience as CEO in the past, Goldberg says he's learning to shut up (albeit slowly, if this lengthy and deeply personal blog post is any indication).

My colleague Scott Gerber summed up the show's failings, noting that it suffered, basically, from «inaccurate expectations about entrepreneurship — especially with the notion that «the life» is more important than the work required to achieve it.»

This often takes some sort of live meeting in which leaders can talk with other leaders about the direction and strategy of the organization and revise their mental models of how they'll need to show up every day and model the culture of the future.

Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»

«We talk all the time about how a business really is like a person,» he continues, «and that if you are trying to live up to other people's expectations, you're going to live a miserable life.

First, stop to think about all the ways in which your current life as a consumer is difficult and frustrating — all the ways in which it eats up your own or somebody else's time and still produces unsatisfying results.

One of them, New York Jets linebacker Josh Martin, summed up the savings mindset: «I have to think about life beyond football,» he told the Journal.

Is Equinox's latest ad campaign a poignant commentary about living a value - committed life on unapologetic terms or a desperate ploy to drum up attention using tired shock tactics?

I am a Candy Crush player and I've enjoyed it, evangelized it and it's lived up to those attributes that I spoke about in the first place.

We wanted to present people with something exciting that they would want to pick up and read, but this seemed just about impossible when our living arrangements consisted of sleeping on mattresses in a friend's parent's basement.