Sentences with phrase «at figuring things»

Experiment after experiment shows that the crowd is better at figuring things out than the experts.

Not exact matches

«From our standpoint, instead of having a patchwork of local governments trying to figure out how to legally classify these things, the bill just creates this baseline framework so no matter where you're at in California, these scooters will be classified for legal reasons under the same category,» Gray said.

These «little» leaders who are drinking their own Kool - Aid and who think you can fool all of the people at least some of the time (while you're trying to figure things out) are on their way to a rude awakening and an abrupt collision.

«I figured these things would all hit a liquidity crunch at some point,» he says.

But the smart thing that the private firms did was they looked at their existing portfolio companies and tried to figure out how to leverage the internet.

Even to him, taking a part - time position to pay down more of his debt seemed like a peculiar thing to do as a Harvard MBA with a six - figure management job at a Fortune 50 company.

Assuming the letter you've received doesn't paint the whole picture for you, calling this number will be well worth it as talking to a person not only helps you understand the nuances of the situation but there's comfort in knowing that a human being with a name and a face at the IRS is there to help you figure things out.

State - sponsored hackers had a big year, the Middle East continued to spiral out of control, numerous beloved public figures died, and venture capital stopped gushing at its previous levels, among a long list of other things.

A couple of things: early sales figures for BlackBerry 10, and a renewed sense of urgency at the company.

Instead, take a look at what you did well, what you didn't do so well, and figure out how you can make more time for those other things you enjoy — like reading, going for long walks, or cooking yourself a nice dinner at home.

They needed less money, since they were only offering one kind of shirt, but they also figured they might raise that amount quickly, and have a shot at going far beyond — a correct guess, as things turned out.

Among other things, Facebook started what it calls the Journalism Project, which it says is aimed at helping media outlets figure out how to use the web to improve their content and their business models.

If you're trying to figure out which behaviors will get you ahead at work — and which you should avoid at all cost — here's are six slides of things you should never do on the job.

«Figure out what your unique business offering is and when you're working at your very best, what are the things that are distinct about you as a person or you as a company.»

«The best thing that we ever did was we sat, and we did a SWOT [Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats] analysis on each other and on ourselves, figured out what we were good at and what we're not.

Broad Listening, on the other hand, claims that it can identify why people do things, or at least give the insights into why, so that a human can figure it out completely.

«We were trying to be your remote control for the Web, the thing that helps you figure out what to look at next,» Camp explains.

We've done some interesting things to figure out how many job candidates we should be interviewing for each position, who are better interviewers than others and what kind of attributes tend to predict success at Google.

Lewis had hoped the book would be inspiring, he said, and that IEX's example might encourage would - be Wall Streeters to stop worrying about getting their half - a-million-dollar bonus at age 23 and instead think «let's figure out some useful thing to do in the world that happens to be on Wall Street», he said.

I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

I'm just going to name a few things — in 1998 he sold ClassicGames.com to Yahoo!, in 2006 he was a New York Times best - seller for the AdSense Code, in 2008 he release iFart a paid iPhone application that was the No. 1 best selling for three week and most recently, and this is where I met him, he sold DealofDay.com at over seven figures where I was a consultant for the company that bought your website.

And while the overall effect on renewable energy projects and finance is unclear at this time, one thing is clear from the new bill: that lenders, developers and tax lawyers will be very busy for the next year trying to figure out the new landscape.

All it took was hard work, ingenuity and a willingness to look at the data and figure things out.

You finally arrive at the bottom, where you find a figure known as net income applicable to common shares, which is the profit the stockholders are entitled to enjoy after backing out things like costs, interest expense, taxes, minority stakes, etc..

Imagine if when the paramedics arrive at an accident scene, the first thing they do is empty the guy's pockets, take his credit cards and run them to the limits, figure out how to divvy it all up among themselves — then start to worry about the guy lying on the pavement.

This would seem to explain the obsession with things like «whisper earnings numbers», channel checking at retailers, networking with experts in the field to glean changes in sales trends or competitive balance or reactions to government economic figures.

At the same time, you need to figure out lots of other things before you plot your content ideas on a calendar.

At any rate, investors don't mind at all that Bird is still figuring things ouAt any rate, investors don't mind at all that Bird is still figuring things ouat all that Bird is still figuring things out.

At this point, the prospect is trying to figure out two things:

* First off, sometimes people new to momentum investing will look at the charts in Figure 4 and say «Whoa, these things have already rallied sharply, I'm not jumping into those.»

Adulthood is potentially dangerous because it can create the false expectation that at some magic point we've got things pretty well figured out when, in reality, we're adrift in a sea of people who are literally making it up as they go.

I unlike you can accept that there are things that I can't know the answers to at this time, and that perhaps someday we will figure it out.

With respect to the two cases cited here, the only thing more acceptable about Maher's comment was that it was directed at a very public figure who has done everything she can up to and including having a reality TV show to stay in the public eye.

It seems you like to post negative things at me, so I figured you were trying to make fun of my «Jimmy Carter» song I posted.

The passing of Richard John Neuhaus from this world to the next did indeed tilt the world on its axis, and, while I knew First Things could not be exactly the same without him at the helm, I prayed that the staff would take a collective deep breath and figure out how to keep the enterprise not only afloat but engaging, stimulating, and provocative as always.

At the very least as an authority figure it is dishonest and a disservice to children to claim to know things no one really knows and teach it to them as if it is fact.

I would just figure that you might at one point did believe in god, correct me if i am wrong, but if it is true i pray that you find your way back to the thing that you might very well know to be the truth and that is Jesus.

Peter Altenberg, a major figure in Vienna's café society at the beginning of the last century, wrote: «There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition and financial catastrophe.

Physics professor and frequent First Things contributor Stephen Barr discusses the implications of quantum physics at Big Questions Online: No less a figure than Eugene Wigner, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, claimed that materialism — at least with regard to the human mind — is....

When I lie awake at night, it usually because I am trying to figure out a problem or reviewing things I need to take care of, or on occasion, if I can't sleep, meditating.

Although one could argue that we are wrong in subtracting certain things or in using the values we do at various points, and so claim that economic welfare has in fact not declined in recent years, it would be equally possible to reintroduce leisure into our calculations and end up with figures indicating a more drastic decline.

(24) Thirteen years later Barth stated his position even more radically: «At the risk of more headshaking and displeasure I will at any rate venture to whisper one thing to you, namely, that I have become increasingly a Zinzendorfian to the extent that in the New Testament only the one central figure as such has begun to occupy me - or each and everything else only in the light and under the sign of this central figure.&raquAt the risk of more headshaking and displeasure I will at any rate venture to whisper one thing to you, namely, that I have become increasingly a Zinzendorfian to the extent that in the New Testament only the one central figure as such has begun to occupy me - or each and everything else only in the light and under the sign of this central figure.&raquat any rate venture to whisper one thing to you, namely, that I have become increasingly a Zinzendorfian to the extent that in the New Testament only the one central figure as such has begun to occupy me - or each and everything else only in the light and under the sign of this central figure.»

You should take a serious look at your writings here and try to figure out why people say the things they do.

Could we say perhaps there is not much if anything to figure out but just simply affirming that different environments call for different needs and as long as someone comes at things with the right attitude it's cool?

I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.

Investigate the evidence yourself, there is nothing at all that truly suggests that the Big Bang happened, the only thing they have used in order to come up with the theory is that in their observances, the Universe appears to be expanding from a central point, it doesn't prove that a Big bang occurred, we know so little about the universe, that we don't even know everything about our own world, and you really believe that our science has figured out the riddle to the beginning of the Universe?

You do have to look at dates for when these key figures said things about their belief.

If you study enough religions you'll quickly figure out the only thing they all have in common is the believe in at least supernatural power without evidence.

It takes a discerning heart to figure out which category things fall in and the most we can do is to look at our own hearts to make sure we stand correctly before God.

«We see these things out there and figure out how we're going to integrate it in the schools,» he says, noting that the company is looking at ways to put ramen noodles in its programs as well as bao buns and dumplings.