Sentences with phrase «better about doing something»

The article reported that Chief Judge McKee did not expect his protest to change the status quo, but, channeling his inner legal blogger, «I feel better about doing something that I don't believe in if I register my protest.»

I also like the thought of getting a photograph of the person because sometimes kids can feel better about doing something if they know who the person is.

I've always been an animal person and have several pets at home, so the experience hasn't changed me in that sense, however, it has made me feel good about doing something that's otherwise just for me.

We've all been to hotels with the «save water» cards that ask you to reuse your towels by hanging up and we feel good about doing something for the planet.

Not exact matches

Setting up a company and culture that allows people to do what they do best (Mastery), in the way that they think will bring about the best results (Autonomy) focused on something that is meaningful (Purpose) as part of group aligned in values (Connectedness) is what drives a great and powerful culture.»

One of the best things about being an avid reader is that moment you stumble across a phrase that clearly describes something you've experienced but didn't previously have the words for.

If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.

The idea behind the campaign is to engage and work with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. — as well as those in other states — to get them to start listening to small business owners, and do something about reversing this tide of increasing regulations.

«It seems like you are no longer interested in talking about business and it seems like getting to know each other better may mean something different to me than it does to you.

The movie was hot and people were talking about it, but he also thought he could do something much better given his background, so he created some stop - motion videos, such as an animated fight between Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.

She said, «I want to give some sort of kudos to the Starbucks barista down the street who does a great job and who might get a better job because of me saying something nice about her.»

Your current circumstances will always get the best of you if your inner conversation isn't positive and empowering you to do something about them.

If the ethics course you take during your MBA is a good one, it may do something to enrich and deepen the way you think about ethics, and to help you design and manage the kinds of systems that will help your employees act ethically.

I tell myself this is normal, you are just telling a story — and if you are telling a story about something you care about you'll do a good job.

When emotionally intelligent people feel good about something that they've done, they won't let anyone's opinions or accomplishments take that away from them.

Two questions are positively worded, meaning they ask the candidate to speak about something he or she did well.

Cook's supply chain experience coupled with the potential for cash repatriation mean Apple is well positioned, he said «I don't think it's something investors should be concerned about.»

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.

Think about something you dreamed of doing five or 10 years ago but didn't work to do — and think about how good you'd be today at that thing if you had.

But not in an admiring way, more in that stunned, what - are - they - going - on - about way, when you shake your head and wonder if there isn't something better they might all be doing.

Salary plus bonuses for a job well done, the ability to work from home if your child is sick or something comes up in your personal life, consistent celebrations throughout the year, and free snack bar during year end so you don't have to worry about food and can save some money over the holidays.

«If you're a good engineer, we don't want you to burn out; we'd rather keep you and get you into something that you're really excited about.»

The best way to do this is by saying something that makes it clear you know about the person you are attempting to network with.

The good news is we can still do something about it that doesn't require destroying every machine we can lay our hands on.

(T) here is good reason to talk, but only if we are talking about something that is worth doing and that could be reasonably verified.

When Knight got back he told me about the distribution rights and almost as an afterthought he said, «You know, Jeff, we'd better do something about that order going to New York.»

It remains to be seen how Zappos will pull off this transition, but if the company does it well, something tells me we're about to see a lot more startups with a lot fewer managers.

While many people, no doubt, have wished for a better dating app or thought about creating one, Bradford's position at Stanford put her in a spot to do something about it.

«I wanted to do something with my technical training that I could get excited about and feel good about,» he says.

Once I've made the choice to do something, I try not to think so much about how difficult or frustrating or impossible that might be; I just think about how good it must feel to be that, or how proud I might be to have done that.

In it, she talks about her true passion — doing something good for other people, which explains why Student Maid cleans free for cancer patients.

We have all felt embarrassed about something in our lives and have done our best to deal with it either by hiding or compensating for it.

«People don't just throw it away if you present them with something well done, and it carries a message worth paying attention to,» she says, noting that about 25 percent of people use the birthday discount.

ON THE VALUE OF SURROUNDING ONESELF WITH TALENTED PEOPLE If you're in an environment where you're not learning as much as you think you should be, if you don't have the people around you who you think are going to inspire you to do the best work that you can, then think about changing something.

«The best thing about doing something public,» he says, «is you really are the hypocrite if you go back on it.»

«I'll ask [potential hires] about something that hasn't gone so well in their life and then ask them what they've learned from it because the next thing I look for in people is curiosity,» he says, «I'm interested in people who take those negative experiences in their lives and are really curious about what happened and can talk intelligently about what they learned and what they might do differently.»

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

The best way to approach this is to send out an e-mail after the board meeting saying something like «After reflecting on our discussion at the board meeting about (topic X), I don't feel I clearly understand each of your positions.

And If you don't do as well as you like, do something about it.

CB: Does that say something about clients — that your best work could result from working with an 18 - year - old boy?

«Whenever I want to start a conversation with a stranger or someone I don't know well, I start talking about something that happened to me early that day,» writes William Beteet.

It is doing something good in the world, and being conscientious about how it does it.

A job is where you do something you care about so well that other people want to pay you for doing it for them.

Confident people don't pass judgment on others because they know that everyone has something to offer, and they don't need to take other people down a notch in order to feel good about themselves.

Think about something you wish you had done better.

Thankfully, the well - dressed men at Toronto tailor shop Garrison Bespoke did something about it.

While people still care about you or your business, you have the opportunity to do something better, to do something differently, to change their minds — or to just meet in the middle.

When you don't have a reliable paycheck to count on, it forces to you to not only confront your biggest fears, but to do something about them as well.

The company says it won't throw good money after bad until someone can do something about the NDP government of John Horgan in B.C., who promised in the election last summer to try to stop the project.

Sometimes, but as long as what I do makes sense, I never worry about something else that might be better.