Sentences with phrase «at piles of work»

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That way he could prioritize his work, rather than going after whatever assignment was at the top of the pile.

Piles of research over the last two decades has shown that emotional intelligence is likely the single most powerful success factor yet discovered, affecting everything from your performance at work, to your mood and the quality of your personal life.

On the other hand, if you need to work long hours at your current full - time job, you commute 60 miles round - trip, and you have two - year - old triplets, piling a part - time business on top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Says Wilkinson: «We wanted Flow to look at the bigger picture of team communication, and actually make working with your team easier — instead of just adding more discussions onto the pile.»

He has produced a deep treatise on government debt, served as chairman of a world - spanning regulatory body, run Italy's central bank (while remaining coolly removed from the scandals and fracases of Italian politics) and made a pile of money working at Goldman Sachs — all without being pigeonholed as an academic, regulator or investment banker.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

At Our Lady of the Lake College, where I teach, piles of clothes, bleach, working gloves, and pry bars lined the halls of the liberal arts building.

Wasn't it Emile Zola who, while pondering the miracles wrought by Lourdes, wondered why there were no wooden legs in the midst of the pile of crutches at the side of the road?

They're easy to make and in no time at all (with basically little to no effort because the waffle iron does all the work for you) you'll have a big pile of waffled corn dogs just waiting to be dipped in ketchup and mustard or topped with chili and cheese.

At the time, I was coming home from work to an always empty house, laying on the floor for an hour to re-calibrate from my day, working myself into a 30 minute or so run, and then reading a couple food blogs over dinner (usually a sweet potato, roasted during that run, with black beans, salsa, and a pile of greens), working another couple hours just to survive the next school day, and falling into bed into a deep and dreamless sleep before my alarm clock wrenched me out and up and into another day that was much the same.

Though the smørrebrød pictured here appear simple — merely buttered bread topped with vivid green lettuce, a pile of shrimp, creme fraiche, cucumber, and lemon — the results are satisfying in a way that an ordinary sandwich, hastily thrown together and squished flat for transport to be eaten at work or on the go, isn't.

Do you know those moments: Stress at work, at home a huge pile of laundry is waiting for you, the kids have their «I make your life as hard as possible» phase and on top of all that you are supposed to cook, clean and smile?!

Let us leave aside those poor souls who find themselves positively bilious at the notion of a young, working class man earning huge piles of money; they are peculiar creatures.

When San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo filed suit against the MLB, the very next day, my son who worked at Google said, instead of a pile of Giants tickets, there were a pile of A's tickets on executives desks.

There is an abundance of activity, schedules, details, and piles at the moment.Quite in contrast to the quiet days that we are used to - and work hard to preserve - most of the time.

I'm writing this from my office perch here at home, where I am haunted by my still - packed suitcase and the piles of catch - up work staring me in the face.

It can be difficult to switch off and watch TV if you have got a pile of urgent work staring at you from the other side of the room.

-LSB-...] I admit it, I love working with felt and after finishing up the no sew quiet book I have been looking at the pile of felt and pondering what to make -LSB-...]

Filling out a piece of paper fraudulently at the DMV and giving it to a person or dropping it into a pile results in your registration does not work.

The junior senator invoked the stories of three people who worked on the pile at Ground Zero and subsequently fell ill, and, in two cases, died from health complications linked to the toxic dust they breathed there.

At the BOE's Manhattan borough office today, four «administrative bi-partisan assistants» worked through piles of ballots to verify voter names, poll sites and registration.

The magical cure of feeding a baby solids before bedtime belongs at the top of the heaping pile of sleep miracles that sound great but don't really work.

In four years of theoretical work, we built a robot that could go over the rubble piles, at which point it would let out lots of little robots, which would be able to wend their way deeper into the rubble.

His stubborn resistance to new weapons that he did not think would work and his outrage at lavish spending on studies that just piled up unread in dusty warehouses eventually wore out the patience of his more politically correct superiors.

Like most residents of developed nations who hadn't traveled broadly in the developing world, the sight of smoldering rubbish piles, which contain anything from food waste to plastics to electronics, came as a surprise to Wiedinmyer, who works at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo..

Applications for permission to work with transgenic livestock, for example, are piling up at the US Department of Agriculture while the administration decides which agency should handle regulation of this technology.

Wedel, now at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California, continues to work his way through other piles of dinosaur bones that may be harboring new species and new insights into dinosaur evolution.

They too often succumb to the desktop syndrome, whereby the only documents you ever deal with at work are those most recently added to the pile, and everything beneath them has effectively vanished into a black hole of the mind.

We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the student who finally learned to stand on one leg...

I ordered Alexis» Peaceful Worrier Remedy as it purported to alleviate all the ways in which I was feeling burdened and not myself at the time: post-vacation, re-entering NYC with deadlines and piles of work to get done.

Deadlines at work, piles of mail to go through, family schedules to manage, meals to cook, bills to pay... the list goes on and on.

Whether it's something at work you've been avoiding or that horrendous pile of dirty laundry, when it's finally done you'll feel a huge surge of energy that will pick you up for the rest of the day.

Its true that exercising without dieting — or worse, piling on calorie - rich food just because you worked up a sweat — wont lead to weight - loss success, agrees Susan Roberts, PhD, professor of nutrition at Tufts Univer - sity.

For his latest film, Water for Elephants, Robert had to get cozy with big piles of poop, which he did happily: «I don't mind working with poop at all.

So as I write this blog post on our dining table with piles of papers and miscellaneous items, I find myself working extra hard at the thought that perhaps we could reorganize just once more to see if we could fit a desk somewhere and / or the thought that someday we will have a place to call home with a room for my home office.

Let's start at the top of the pile with the fantastic directorial debut of John Carroll Lynch, an actor who always struck me as someone who cared about who he worked with and clearly was paying attention to former collaborators like Martin Scorsese, David Fincher and Joel Coen.

Five Came Back works even better as a documentary and not only because we can see the harrowing footage these filmmakers captured: aerial - bomber fights, burning cities, liberated French crowds in tears and the piles of clothes and bodies at Dachau concentration camp.

Even if you're facing a pile of papers to be graded, you can use the 10 - minute strategy to at least start working your way through the pile.

At the moment, I have around 300 online students to take care of, a pile of graduate dissertations to mark, and three websites to work on (one for online teachers, of course!).

Others will be piling into the iPad with Barnes and Noble reputedly having a team of 14 developers at work and Skiff, the Hearst magazines initiative, also rumoured to be heading to the iPad.

Being good at the basics of querying will help get your work reviewed, and using beta readers will see your work float closer to the top of the acceptance pile.

One of those ways is through query contests, an awesome new trend that has cropped up recently to allow aspiring authors a better chance at getting their work in front of an agent, and not sitting in the slush pile.

In order to level the playing field and have a true comparison, you need to look at everything that gets submitted to the traditional machine — that means all the work that never makes it out of the slush pile — and compare that to all the self - published e-books on Amazon and elsewhere.

Eh, I have a pile between Pathfinder and 3.5, and most places don't seem to want to go through the work of truly hyperlinking their index (it seems a struggle just to get them to put an index IN to some of the books) and leave it at bookmarks.

Right now I use a collection of torn out pages from print articles, Post-It notes and scraps of paper such as used envelopes that pile up on my desk at work and home.

Tally was the lucky recipient of a big pile of «happy adoption» gifts from our friends at Petmate (I don't work for them and this post isn't sponsored), including several scratching posts.

While half the volunteers were hard at work on the shadehouse, others were making progress on cleaning the piles of empty pots and racks so that they could be transported and reused at our other nurseries.

Fortunately, I have a pile of airline miles that I've been sitting on for YEARS, and work is a bit slow at the moment... so, I spent most of last week battling with US Airways» horrific call center to book a last - minute award flight to Southeast Asia!

Having worked in a few I know that there's nothing more infuriating than rocking up at night to give the kitchen a clean and having to wade through piles of crusty dishes.

At least one portion of the trailer, the piles of dead sea creatures and machinery, are somewhat indicative of Junji Ito's work, though we have no idea if he's involved.