Sentences with phrase «as having a conversation»

Instead of giving the death stare, think of it as having a conversation with a friend.

As I had these conversations with the programmers and entrepreneurs who are most deeply involved in Bitcoin, I encountered a quiet but widely held belief that much of the most convincing evidence pointed to a reclusive American man of Hungarian descent named Nick Szabo.

«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.

It's funny you mention the whole fresh thing as I had a conversation with my husband last night when he brought it back from grocery store that we needed to eat it that night or it may not be good to eat a day later.

Fixing the problem may be as simple as having a conversation, dimming the lights, and getting in the mood.

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Eventually, we see how the constant isolation has taken its toll on Neville's sanity, as he has conversations with inanimate objects.

By combining the power of Diigo and Twitter, I am able to track more easily ad - hoc professional learning opportunities as they occur, as well as have conversations about them before and after they occur.

Whenever I am in her school, I watch in awe as she has conversation after conversation with students, staff and parents and there is no question in anyone's mind, they know they come first to her over paperwork, reports, maintenance issues, etc..

Performing a needs analysis for a new student can be a simple as having a conversation about what the student would like to cover, or as complicated as asking the student to fill out a questionnaire.

Someone described the essays as having a conversation with your best friend.

As you have these conversations and make choices for and with Gus, Gus's personality with change which, in turn, effects how the other characters react to him.

Masullo — who prefers the term «stuff maker» to artist — asserts that his paintings begin with shapes and develop as would a conversation: the brush communicates with paint as layer upon layer is worked and reworked, until it arrives at a natural point of completion.

If so, there's going to be a couple presumptions we're going to make as we have this conversation, and the first is, is that you serve clients in a local area, right?

You should think of traditional marketing as shouting about your business from a rooftop (1 to many), and marketing 2.0 as having a conversation with potential business (1 to 1).

Last year, Amazon introduced a Parent Dashboard as another means of helping parents monitor screen time as well as have conversations with kids about what they're doing on their devices.

When monitoring couples as they have a conversation about relationship conflicts, Gottman has found that straight couples feel more and more negative moods and emotions, like stress and anger, as a conversation went on, whereas gay couples did not.

«Liking» a photo or status doesn't mean as much as having a conversation with someone on the phone or in - person.

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You'll be able to capture information that could be relevant to your conversation, as well as potentially locate a connection you might have in common with a person you're contacting.

Mahan says he had anticipated Brigade's role this year would lie largely in down - ballot races, with conversation centering on issues - based debates as it had in the app's earlier days.

As a financial planner in New York City, I've come to expect new client meetings to include conversations about financial anxiety, confusion, and frustration.

President Donald Trump denied on Thursday having surreptitiously recorded conversations with James Comey, whom the president fired from his post as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month.

But in the last few weeks, as Slack chatter has seeped into our office conversation, more co-workers have joined, and it's starting to have a real and positive impact on the way we work together.

As an entrepreneur in the fashion industry, I've been to networking events and gatherings where some entrepreneurs in technology don't further conversations or ask me questions about my company because they feel that we're on different playing fields.

As for revenue, Augustine estimates that the church collects annual receipts of about $ 200 million, which he bases on conversations with former Scientology officials who have since left the organization.

«The RGGI states have held productive and collaborative conversations with Virginia representatives as they crafted their regulation and look forward to continuing those conversations as Virginia's program design process advances,» a statement read.

Social media as one big conversation has implications that are potentially damaging for business.

«I would get a job as a bartender at night and a sales job during the day, and I would start working,» Cuban said in conversation with Guy Raz, the host of NPR's How I Built This podcast.

Just last week I was having a conversation with an individual considering investing in a business that they had interacted with previously as a freelance content provider.

Following 2008, NGDP targeting has grown from a topic of conversation largely limited to blogs such as Scott Sumner's The Money Illusion, to something discussed openly among central banks, prominent publications, and even Presidential candidates.

And as I travel, I'm having more and more conversations with companies that are focused on clean tech.

As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

'' [Apple COO] Jeff [Williams] has asked me to lead the thinking (or at least the conversation) on the intersection of the regulatory landscape (as it currently exists and where we hope we might be able to influence its movement) and our products and platforms,» Robin Goldstein, a special projects attorney for Apple, said in an email seen by MobiHealthNews.

As the night wore on, Luke's mother said, Luke and Beth did not revisit the conversation and had sex about an hour later without protection.

Having a conversation about what you want if things don't work out as planned often helps couples have a more reasonable discussion when divorce hits.

But good partnerships require difficult conversations, too, such as the one that Goldman said he had with executives at Coke, who wanted Honest Tea to remove the «no high - fructose corn syrup» statement from its labels.

Amazingly, in the world of sales, we have puppy conversations (disguised as business conversations) all the time.

Sessions had more than 25 conversations with foreign ambassadors in his role as a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and had two separate interactions with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, the department said.

Of course, we'd love to do anything we can to help arm you with the answers you need as you work through the final steps, etc...» While your champion still may not know what puppy conversation questions are in store for them, raising potential blockers early (and even forecasting the existence of the conversation itself) will prevent them from being blindsided, enhance their credibility within their organization, and result in a more frictionless and timely conclusion to your sales cycle.

Brunner, who left Lunar in 1989 to become Apple's chief designer, recalls having conversations with Smith about how they spent a fair amount of their time giving counsel and strategic advice to start - up clients, almost as if they were venture capitalists.

Pentland's research has shown that the effect works in the other direction, too: A speaker who subtly mimics his or her conversation partner is rated as more interesting, honest, and persuasive.

Still have a conversation and offer some services; they might not be a complete answer but can work as part of a more sophisticated and integrated approach.

Once you're finished, you should have a picture that serves as a fairly solid playbook for how to handle potential countermoves by competitors in any conversation with a prospect.

Sources told WWD that Nordstrom continues to have conversations with potential partners, but those discussions are being described as «informal» and «just talks.»

As for why I had this conversation on Twitter instead of LinkedIn, there is at least one difference that remains between the two platforms.

For me, «playing in my lane» means using my position as PwC's chairman and senior partner to drive conversations about race and diversity, to drive change and ask the hard questions within PwC and the profession in which we compete, and to have the discussion with other CEOs and corporate leaders.

Tailored beauty ads are unlikely to do any harm (except perhaps to less digitally savvy lipstick manufacturers), but the idea that we may soon be living in information bubbles so finely crafted as to suit our very personalities and bombarded with political messages designed to push our specific buttons, has worrying implications for civic conversation.

Foiled terror plots against Jyllands - Posten, as well as this year's gun attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which reprinted the Danish cartoons in 2006, have changed the conversation on Islam and immigration in many European newsrooms.

«We wanted to make sure that our own country was part of the conversation about global health issues in two ways — one, making sure that we're not thinking of it as issues that affect other people that don't have anything to do with us, but also acknowledging that we can learn so much from what has gone well or new models that are effective in other countries,» Bush tells Business Insider.

In messages to staff, tech companies sometimes conflate conversations employees are allowed to have, such as complaining about working conditions, with sharing trade secrets, said Chris Baker, an attorney with Baker Curtis and Schwartz, PC, who represents the fired Googler.