Sentences with phrase «about things of this world»

But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world — how she may please her husband.

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world — how he may please his wife — and his interests are divided.

Over the past month the stress of work and constant worry about things of this world were beginning to taking a toil.

Not exact matches

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.

And in the world of email specifically, «everyone's picky about different things in different ways,» as Bank put it.

For one thing, the interesting things that happen to all of us on a daily basis don't tend to occur when we're sitting on our butts but rather when we're out and about in the world.

«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.

«This book talks a lot about paradox of our world of hyper digital convenience that doesn't necessarily translate to a seemingly logical replacement of physical things.

«When we look at the world, there's plenty of things to worry about, so we would anticipate there could be episodes of higher volatility in the second half or even next year,» cautions Bruce Cooper, chief investment officer at TD Asset Management.

For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»

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.

Like so many books about innovation and the exciting world of tomorrow's business, it's a little buzzwordy and breathless, which can get stale quickly — and when you're talking about the future, stale is the last thing you want to be.

But a setback isn't the end of the world, it's a lesson that can teach some of the most exciting things about you, your product or your company that you never saw before.

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

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.

She and her business are the epitome of working from anywhere in the world, and as a result of her own experience, she's learned a thing or two about what it really takes to stay wildly productive when you're constantly traveling.

Many things that draw teens to smartphones — the need to socially connect, seek novel experiences, and learn about the world — are the sorts of things they have always sought.

It's like the puppy of the monitor world; everybody wants to pick it up and say nice things about it.

It's safe to say the inventor behind one of the world's greatest creations — the lightbulb — can teach you a thing or two about success.

This whole «good deed» thing got me thinking about how in the startup world there are also a multitude of ways in which the best of intentions can easily lead to bad decisions and lousy results.

One great thing about the world is that no matter what you want to do, someone out there has probably already done it — or at least part of it.

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.

One of the things that struck me about the document is that there's a genuine difficulty in reporting on this sort of stuff in a world replete with grey areas.

This is one of those things that's so easy to forget about, or make due with whatever you have already — but it can make a world of difference.

But after reading many of these articles, you may have noticed that the sort of things they suggest — practicing gratitude, say, or getting out into the natural world more regularly — are easier to read about then they are to effectively implement.

In Song's opinion, there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: people who build a startup because they're passionate about a specific business — a desire to create the world's largest cold - pressed juice empire, say, or a sudden insight that betting on video games is the future of fantasy sports — and people who are entrepreneurs because that's just the only thing they can imagine doing.

And there are examples of things, like the Creative Destruction Lab, that are excellent for what they do, and not just excellent in terms of Toronto, or Ontario, but excellent in that you have Berkeley, Harvard and MIT looking at doing something similar, because there is something world class about it.

There's so much you do have, and it's not just things; you also have experiences, family and friends, memories, pockets of happy moments, laughter your shared with someone, your personal strengths, your skills and talents, and you most likely also have a reasonable amount of knowledge about the world and how it works.

One of the great things about transitioning from the executive world to the non-executive world across a different range of organisations is that you encounter different experiences and issues to deal with.

Feloni: Are you able to get some of that satisfaction from when you joined the startup world, which was more about creating things?

Steve Bass writes PC World's monthly «Hassle - Free PC» column and is the author of «PC Annoyances, 2nd Edition: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Personal Computer,» available from O'Reilly.

This should be a good thing, because the U.S. is still the world's biggest oil consumer, using 19 million barrels a day and importing about half of it.

And there's one more thing I've noticed about people who are truly wealthy — they have a different way of looking at the world than most of us.

Pivoting a successful company is one of the hardest things in the world, because you have something to lose, so I was a bit skeptical about how quickly we could turn this ship.

Here's how it describes itself on its «Who we are,» aka About Us page (a great place to define your tone of voice): «We're an odd bunch of international misfits, huddling together for warmth in a cold, indifferent world that thinks it's weird to actually love things like content marketing and technology markets and B2B companies and storytelling and stuff like that.

And being perhaps the world's most comprehensive aggregator of economic data for the largest and most advanced economies on the planet — and having tracked such data for the last five decades — one might suggest that the OECD knows a thing or two about improving productivity and making an economy grow.

Just hoping things will turn out well stops us from making tough choices, believing the best about others can get you taken advantage of, and a failure to look at the world as it truly is can be harmful to both your business and your personal life.

For one thing, given that Canadians are among the world's biggest users of YouTube, we might not have to worry about usage - based billing anymore since our internet traffic would plunge off a cliff.

For those of you too swamped to watch the whole thing right now, the money line from Sun is this: «I happen to be in a world that's run by men, and yet Poshmark is all about women.

One big thing that excited lots of entrepreneurs and investors about the JOBS Act was the prospect of investor crowdfunding — the idea that small businesses could go online, make their pitches, and receive direct investment from accredited investors around the world, quickly.

After all, any real work requires an investment of time and energy, and when you're fatigued or distracted, it's just about the last thing in the world you feel like doing.

Poetically, the things about Wolff that his colleagues seem to hate the most — his ambition, his social climbing, his worship of status and buzz and money, his self - referentiality and solipsism — are seen by some as the perfect reflection of the world he covers (and thus the key to his success).

We both had pretty much sort of an independent attitude about things in the world.»

In a world full of anxiety, my goal today was to give investors one less thing to worry about.

It's tempting to compare the second - largest phone market in the world to China, but in fact the latter is significantly richer and has a much larger high - end that primarily values status; the former, meanwhile, is very well - informed about things like processor and camera specifications, and is likely to be particularly appreciative of the SE's aggressive feature set.

I was asked to speak about the topic of «what is going on in the venture capital world and what is the next big thing after social networking?»

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In the body of the e-mail, Yaffe wrote «Just wanted to follow - up with you and put this to bed ASAP... In a perfect world would love to have you wire him back $ 170,000 and gift him 15,000 shares of Retrophin stock and that would fulfill the note obligation and more importantly doing the right thing and manning up as we spoke about.»

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a good suggestion is to travel around the world and experience a lifetime of «mis - steps» and you'll be smiling when you get back home and understand the best thing about coming home is being able to «relieve yourself» in «factual comfort».