Sentences with phrase «better than a piece of paper»

A real - world application of learned PD is far better than a piece of paper verifying seat time in a workshop.

Not exact matches

Big firms may care about screening resumes, but a good sales hire is going to be a lot more than a piece of paper.

Knowing that their extensive silver was worth little, what better way to cash in on it than get a piece of paper that says the silver can be exchanged for gold, government - guaranteed?

Not from sitting around in a library hoping I would earn a piece of paper I could hang on my wall showing I know the Bible better than you.

Believing in God and Heaven is a lot better than worshiping a piece of green paper like most Americans do.

Well, I would want more than a piece of paper saying «Hey, this is God.

It's time we start doing the most good... help people get the skills (not the pieces of paper) to get and hold a job rather than trying to out do the rest of the world with how many college grads we have.

I'm not saying all prayers put out there are as valuable as a Monet (they certainly aren't), but that the idea of prayer is more valuable than mere materialism, in that its immediately intangible qualities have the potential to change people (not just «make them feel better»), whereas recycling a piece of paper has almost no discernable impact.

«The thing that concerned me is they would pass a piece of paper with the title tax cap and then say well, it's better than nothing and it wouldn't be.

The Bookseller's Philip Jones in his leader piece on Friday (February 16) writes of how travel books have yet to make a good transition to digital formats: «Mobile - screen size, roaming charges, battery life, and the lack of wi - fi in some destinations has given paper a longer flight time than once we imagined,» he writes.

«Right now E Ink is great in sunlight, but in certain situations, a piece of paper can be a better display than E Ink, and in dim light, an LCD display can be better than all of these technologies.»

Doug Hoyes: — and even if you have to use a piece of paper and a pencil I guess, that's better than nothing.

You know that life is hard, and you also know that because you're in college, and you're not leaving without a piece of paper, you're going to have it better than some of the folks that don't go.

After training at the Slade School of Art in London, he found that he was less interested in the artwork itself than in the boundaries between it and the world - hence some of his best - known pieces, such as No 79 (small blob of Blu - Tack squidged on wall), No 88 (sheet of A4 paper scrunched into ball) and his sign on the facade of Tate Britain that read: The Whole World + The Work = The Whole World.

The museum will also create archives tied to the Grunwald Center Collection, which features more than 45,000 works on paper, as well as one devoted to its extensive collection of pieces by California artist Corita Kent.

The ProPublica piece expands on findings I reported in the print paper and on Dot Earth in 2009 showing that the amount of gas leakage from wells, pipelines and storage facilities for gas and oil was vastly greater than longstanding Environmental Protection Agency estimates.

Vanilla Android, on the other hand, gave consumers the best the platform could offer simply by trying to stay clean and doing less, or, as I like to put it, working as a canvas; a blank piece of paper that the user — rather than a manufacturer — had to fill via the immensely powerful tool represented by the Play Store.

The problem is, once it's out there — in a company database, on the internet, etc., and it's not a good one — you're stuck with that piece of paper doing you a disservice rather than driving attention.

A resume is your entire life on a piece of paper, and nothing is harder than condensing all of it to fit on that piece of paper, however good you are.