Sentences with phrase «about some of the things going»

«I wanted to talk to them about some of the things going on in the press,» Schaffer said.

Try something like: «I am here for you but I also want to talk to you about some of the things going on in my life.»

«There were concerns about some of the things going on in the classroom, concerns about the quality of the education the children were getting,» he said.

Not exact matches

Astrology is: I look at the stars, I think about things real hard, and I say what's going to happen in the future through some part of intuition.

To level the playing field, she recommends, «Sit on the same side of the table and say, «Come on over, I wanted to go over some things with you about our agenda.»

So the great thing about going to space is there's no friction, so once you're out of the atmosphere, it will be as smooth as silk — no turbulence, nothing.

Someone can see what they feel is the greatest advertisement in the world and be dead set on buying from that company, but if a friend tells them good things about another company that offers the same goods or services, most of the time they will take their friends advice and go with the alternative company.

After you've gone through all of your stories from your past, and after you've talked about everything that you've dealt with, now you have to go live life and accumulate more things to talk about.

«I meet with them regularly to chat about what's going on in their world, how they think of things, and how we can do things differently in the company to appeal to that generation.

Some of them got jobs, and a lot of them went successfully into treatment because if you're not spending all your time thinking about how you're going to pay for your next fix, you do have time to think about other things.

«The great thing about going to space is there is no friction, so once you are out of the atmosphere, it is smooth as silk — no turbulence, nothing.

This is exactly the kind of thing that people sounded the alarm about in recent years — that robots are going to displace human workers.

I think for women, we often get tangled up in what people think of us, what's going on and we worry about things that are outside of our control.

Second of all, if you lie about the job, then the person starts working for you and sees that things aren't the way you presented them, you are going to lose them and they will go work for another company.

Stanford Business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer said that there are plenty of examples in the business world in which self - management indeed leads to more efficient and productive companies, but Hsieh's March 2015 memo is an example of how he's going about things the wrong way.

«While things seem to be improving, the ability to find addresses in Saudi Arabia — and a lot of basic stuff in the last mile of execution... is going to be a big question they're always wrestling and thinking about,» he says.

I had to go to the library to find a book on beginner's mind, the Internet still being a thing of the future, and I learned that what he expected from me was an attitude of openness, a lack of preconceived ideas about how things had to be, and a wealth of questions that started with, «what if» and «why not.»

With Valentine's Day around the corner, here's a stimulating spoonful of inspirational talks about that thing that makes the world go «round.

«There have been times when I've had a really busy week and a lot has been going on and I'll sit down on the cushion and then I'll just start crying and I'll realize that I'm so sad about this one thing, but I had no space to grieve, no space to think about it; I was zipping from one thing to the other all week,» says Pennell, who has studied at Insight Meditation Society, one of the top meditation centers in the country.

Today, we hear a lot of doom and gloom conversation about where the world is going, yet many positive things are happening all around us.

But it seems... It's one of those things that I feel pretty confident about that's how it's gonna shake out.

Once I learned all about the business side of things, the pair (who, by the way, have inside jokes and act like old friends), told me they were going to Google the next day to do a live Hangout video chat with the tech blog Mashable.

The clips indeed went viral, prompting Boivin to think about he could make a living doing this sort of thing.

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

After quite a bit of this, I couldn't take it anymore and introduced myself, told them I was working with Peter and we were here in this meeting to learn more about their views and opinions about how things were going in the company.

There's a very small fraternity of entrepreneurs who have gone public, and the cool thing was they all want to talk about it and pay it back to others.

But anyway, so we talked a lot about whales and we said, «When you go whale watching and a whale breaches, a whale jumps up above the water, everybody oohs and aahs and takes pictures of it and talks about «Oh, look at the whale,» and then the whale goes back under water for like 45 minutes, and it's the most boring thing in the world.

He won't go into any kind of detail about what's to come, except to say: «Next year, completing the core things that people need in a bed is definitely our first priority.»

«When people are surprised on Twitter, they are going to tweet about it and that's how things can spread very quickly,» says O'Neil's boss, Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likable Local, and author of Likeable Business (McGraw - Hill, 2012).

When I did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time doing digital anthropology... going to chat rooms and getting people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about in person.

One of the things we look at is to start to think about it a little bit differently that basically says we think there's really two dimensions to how personal computing is going to continue to evolve.

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

«If you're not dreaming about it and aren't waking up in the morning having thought of three ways to do something different, then it's not going to be the right thing long - term.

You want to think about what to do in the face of an of these, and if you're trying to get outside funds, having a contingency plan shows that you've considered what to do if things don't go according to plan.

«What's scary about this,» says Evan Fraser, Canada Research Chair in Global Human Security at the University of Guelph, «is that these underlying structural things are going to be what make these food systems more fragile.»

Make sure you and your key people can talk about what may be ahead for the business, what the later phases of growth might be, what can go wrong, and how you might handle those things.

His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

«The thing I most respect about Brito is he does what he says he's going to do,» says Dave Peacock, who was president of AB at the time and stayed on for three years.

He said BlackRock is not overly concerned about liquidity in the treasuries market, but is nonetheless keeping on top of everything that's going on — things like the emergence of high - frequency trading in the interdealer market.

«I hadn't gone there with the intention of doing business,» he says, «but I kept thinking about the paper I'd written and decided to check things out.»

Says one Adobe employee surveyed by Great Place to Work: «I feel I have the opportunity to take on whatever challenges I am capable of tackling, and we have the opportunity to give and receive honest feedback about how things are going.»

«It's about identifying the object of this lunch in your mind» and going in armed with «a couple of things that you want to ask, and a couple of things you want to share.»

There are legitimate concerns about things going wrong with crowdsourcing for new companies: Fraud and suitability of investments are the two most obvious.

Too many Millennials complain about not getting paid enough while they do one of two things: they either do not ask for a raise, period, or they do not take the time to understand what would warrant a raise and going all - in on acquiring that skill set.

«I will say that of the many shows I do throughout the year, Girls Night In was a singular evening that encouraged women to get together, talk and laugh about the things we go through as well as donate some money to Planned Parenthood.

«The other goes at the heart of what the media are supposed to be doing, which is informing the public about things that might be matters of interest to them but which corporate America might not be interested in sharing with them.»

JOSH MORE: It's clear that even if we were to change things now, some of the effects are going to happen — there's nothing we can do about that.

If this client goes public about your dishonesty, you may find yourself with a big image problem — and that kind of thing tends to stick.

Hopefully having a good wallow, really thinking about your feelings and showing yourself some compassion (sadly, there's no word from Gilbertson on whether that can come in the form of chocolate fudge brownie icecream) should help ease your fear of failure going forward, but Gilbertson suggests that you take things slowly as you move on from a disappointment.

I never did have either of the two assistants remind me of a meeting, update me on their own about how things were going, or flag an important e-mail to show they were attuned to my work.