Sentences with phrase «doing more of something»

Studies show that bias training may also lead to a phenomenon called «moral licensing» where individuals unconsciously respond to having done something «good» by doing more of something «bad.»

Think of it this way: If just doing more of something made you bigger, then it would be marathon runners that look jacked, not sprinters.

Instead of vowing not to do something bad next year, Carter suggests putting a positive spin on the end of the year resolutions ritual by opting to do more of something good.

Many years ago we did this thing called One - Click Shopping, and tiny, little improvements can drive people to do more of something, just because you're making it easier.

Not exact matches

What makes something often maladaptive or more normative is the percent of people who do it and the amount of interference it causes.

In the end, more disposable income doesn't hold a candle to having someone to rely on in a time of need (something that 95 percent of Danes believe they have).

«What we might be identifying here is something much more to do with help - seeking behavior than anything to do with a psychiatric illness,» University of California, Los Angeles professor of psychiatry Jonathan Flint told The Guardian.

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.

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

It's the perfect example of when you step outside of your comfort zone and you do something that makes you more comfortable.

Starting off with my favorite holiday of the year, Halloween is one of the most mindless holiday marketing months and I am not talking about zombies; though when I read some of these Facebook pages it makes me wish I was one... What I mean is that it's relatively easy to research and find quality content that can be used to boost interest in your cause, so why not do something more ghoulish?

«I said if I do one more year of not working I need to make it a goal - I need to achieve something.»

The most popular ETFs still track major global indexes, but with more than 1,600 ETFs available for purchase in the U.S., one of the daunting issues investors face is one of quantity: Just because there's an ETF for something doesn't mean you should buy it, according to Robert Goldsborough, a Morningstar fund analyst.

CF: What you said about others coming into the fray and starting to build some momentum about it, I think that does give more hope that this just won't just be something that is a transfer of dollars from the federal to provincial governments.

Prosperity doesn't come from producing more of something that no one wants to buy.

Whether that's completing more research or drafting a timeline, people should walk out of that door with something actionable to do.

The pace of change driven by startups seems to be accelerating as companies devoted to essential needs — from reducing procurement costs and improving operational efficiency, to delivering more efficient primary care or dialysis care — try to do something about the sorry state of health care.

Unless you're really going to use that money to do something that is more transformative in terms of how we deliver, finance and run our health care system, then you're not going to see any real change.

Just when you think MDC Partners» agency 72andSunny can't bring any more funny to their Call of Duty work, they go and do something like this.

It's useful to do some more framing before launching into questions (something along the lines of, «I'm going to ask you a few questions so that I can try and help you find what you're most interested in, if that's alright?»).

In my scenario, instead of verification connoting what it currently does — this person is kind of famous, or a journalist, or knows somebody who works at Twitter — it would mean something more akin to «authenticated.»

Here's something you can do this very minute that will make you feel more confident right away, courtesy of social psychologist Amy Cuddy.

You may try something else later on, but you will get way more out of it and I don't care what the starting salary is.

«I think users are already searching for something online, this does create a rising tide for local businesses and it makes them more visible than they used to be,» Stoppelman said of Yelp.

Though it's called the burn rate, that term doesn't really capture the drip - by - drip unease of spending more money than you're making as you race to build something that catches on before the cash runs out.

Not only what you would get on another airline — Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant — but you also get that capability of buying something, that you do get a seat assignment or something more that allows you to have the service.

Interestingly, fellow nominee Mad Max: Fury Road «s search volume dropped more than 85 % around its nomination, though that might have something to do with the fact that the film was released last May and had been out of theaters for months when nominations were announced.

The point is that the nation has received zero value from trillions in quantitative easing, and so if even 10 % of the 130 million households do something useful with their $ 10,000 in cash then that would be one heck of a lot more than we've gotten from the trillions thrown down the rathole of a venal, corrupted, insolvent banking sector.

And it's not as if Williams doesn't have the money (he made a reported $ 50 million selling Blogger to Google) or the connections (Twitter's angel investors read like a who's who of Silicon Valley) to attempt something more ambitious.

The basic principle of using this kind of inertia in exercise was something first done in the»90s, to create weighted resistance, and I thought there was more potential there.

Take it from a former Stanford dean who's dealt with more than her fair share of bright - but - bumbling 20 - somethings: Just reaching a particular birthday does not make you an adult.

«Look, here's one rich guy who's done something that no one else has ever done, and he's done something that a lot more of you guys can do,» Schulich says.

But that doesn't mean most business leaders can't learn something valuable from the core finding of the Facebook research project, which is, «If you want to keep your people — especially your stars — it's time to pay more attention to how you design their work.»

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Attorney General Sessions said that marijuana sale and use is still against federal law and said he does not think that cannabis is something that should be legalized, despite the fact that more than half of all states have some form of a regulated market already in place and the majority of Americans agree that marijuana prohibition should end.

He added that people are also sick of seeing «billionaires not paying any federal income taxes,» something Trump may have been able to do for more than a decade.

The gale force of consolidation blowing through nearly every industry has released a steady flow of restless executives — seasoned managers who've been there and done that and want something more in life besides early retirement.

If you notice a trend towards disengagement, or that a lot of people are more than likely to quit over the next few months, you can do something to help the situation.

Not that they don't have my sympathies: It can be frustrating when you're trying to stand out among so many other vendors, especially when it feels as if everyone has thought of something more creative than you.

«Plus, people don't like to listen to something more than once, it's onerous to license the content... and there's not a whole lot of money in streaming standup.

«It was more like you did it because you found something that spoke to you and you found like - minded people and you were all weirdos, everyone were kind of outcasts.»

He preferred to do something that would differentiate his practice from rival firms and, more recently, from the do - it - yourself investors who can access copious amounts of information on the web.

In today's hyper - collaborative corporate environment, the ability to actually get something done is more of a rarity than a dog - friendly rental in Vancouver.

These end - of - the - year pledges tend to be either dour commitments to do something unpleasant but healthful like paying down debt, hitting the treadmill, or eating more Brussels sprouts, or vapid self - help - type resolutions like «realize your potential!»

As a professional, you can only be helping out one client at any moment of the day, and since you never get to live the same day twice, you're giving away something more valuable by persisting with a client who doesn't take your advice.

... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.

Trump has been one of the more outspoken critics over the last several months, arguing that Apple should have helped the FBI obtain access to the iPhone 5c used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook — something the iPhone maker didn't do.

Using this technique is also more of a sure bet than innovating and making something never done before that you have no idea if anyone is interested in.»

I was looking to be more of a famous artist, and it all started out as something to do for art.

As a rule, the software masks identifying information, Polak says: «Only when something is deemed to be a threat do you get approval from the chief privacy officer or part of the legal team to be able to break the glass» — decrypting more granular personal data — «and see who the individual is,» he adds.

Whether you call it «amnesty» or a «path to citizenship,» doing something about the 11.7 million undocumented migrants who have settled in the U.S., two - thirds of them more than a decade ago, must be part of any serious immigration reform program.