Sentences with phrase «doing this big thing on»

I always did, so it never felt like I was doing this big thing on my own and had to be a grown - up.

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On new risks to big tech: «One thing I do believe is that the FANG stocks, I personally believe, there's more regulatory risk in those stocks than there has been.

File this one under simple but powerful ideas most people never think of: «Draw all the things you need to do on a big piece of paper, and find out which things depend on other things.

«The biggest thing we've landed on Mars is the one - ton Curiosity rover in 2012,» Jones says, «and that was at the limit of what we could do technologically.»

In fact, one thing that keeps her rig on the road regularly is doing final legs of the trip for some of those big rigs that don't want to come up into the Northeast.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

«Ballmer can be the biggest asshole on the planet,» says a source close to Nokia's CEO, «so if it was the right thing to do, Elop would have shoved the partnership back in Ballmer's face.»

On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

If there's consensus on one thing about big data it's that it really doesn't have a specific definition.

They do the Hardest Thing First We usually procrastinate on the one thing that will give us the biggest return on resThing First We usually procrastinate on the one thing that will give us the biggest return on resthing that will give us the biggest return on results.

All of this is being done while trying to simultaneously educate clients on both sides of its business about why anyone should get excited about yet another «paradigm shift» in an online space where someone's almost always hawking the next big thing.

It's probably the biggest sum of money you have ever had, and you immediately think of all the things you could do with that money: pay off debt, build up savings, go on vacation, buy a BMW, get a rare dog breed.

For the most critical decisions — the ones where no amount of data will tell you the right thing to do — I focus on thinking about it and then getting a big, long sleep of eight to nine hours.

Things like that are better done on bigger screens.»

Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman said the biggest risk to market valuations are geopolitical, and the very things that people don't want to focus on, like North Korea.

«I like that they're focused on doing one thing very well, but the more diversified your business, the less there's a chance one area will take a big bite out of your earnings when it's disrupted.»

And in those days they had... I was on a picture where they had the old three - stripe Technicolor camera and it was a big thing in one place, didn't move at all.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

Things did turn a bit somber on the topic of China, a large and important market where Uber is spending big money to grow.

When going on sales calls for the first time, there are a few things you can do upfront that can make a big difference later on in the sales cycle.

I don't want to say focus on the big stuff versus the small stuff, because sometimes the small things can make the biggest impact.

And then later we'll see that that really cool technology enables maybe things that we're doing today to take on something bigger, maybe something new.

Besides simply viewing meetings as «a big company thing,» entrepreneurs are «constantly pushing, and always on, they don't consider the important of cadenced checkpoints to measure the progress against their goals, and reevaluate that their previously agreed goals should continue to be their goals,» he writes.

He says that's not just because it is the right thing to do from an environmental perspective, but because, as always, he's focused on getting the biggest return for his shareholders.

In some ways, that's a big reason tech started moving up the Peninsula from Silicon Valley to San Francisco: really creative folks were doing new things just on the fringe.

So the safest thing to do was prop it up on my big leather couch,» he told CNBC.

But while the average consumer may not be able to spend big money on VR gear, HTC believes corporations have the cash to do so, if they believe VR can help their business and save money on things like workplace safety training and maintenance.

If your aim is to make your team happier, as a boss, the biggest thing you can do is not to say «Hello» on a Monday morning and give everyone a free donut.

Once you've tracked where your time goes, do two things: make a «List of 100 Dreams,» life goals big and small, ranging from winning the Nobel Prize to keeping on hand a favoured brand of chocolate.

This includes booking entertainment, making the ball bigger and brighter, working with sponsors, and all the other things viewers don't see going on behind the camera.

One of the biggest challenges that we all face is the steadily increasing number of things that we have to do on a daily basis.

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And while he was fuzzy on many details, giving lots of partial answers and promises to «follow up», one thing he did confirm was that Facebook board member Peter Thiel's secretive big data analytics firm, Palantir, is one of the companies Facebook is investigating as part of a historical audit of app developers» use of its platform.

Perhaps that's extreme, but one sign the whole thing did have an impact on agency profits and revenues, at least when it comes to the stock prices of the four biggest holding companies.

Female entrepreneurs are doing big things this year and this article sheds some light on the ones you should be watching.

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But Apple and other Big Tech corporations like Google and Amazon — along with much of Big Pharma and even Starbucks — have avoided paying hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes on their worldwide earnings because they don't mainly sell physical things like cars or refrigerators or television sets that they make here and ship abroad.

My team put these things on our marketing to - do list, worked like hell to execute, and paid the big bucks because, well, that's what one did as marketing and PR people.

It's the single biggest mistake I used to make on LinkedIn, and I still see far too many professionals doing the same thing day after day.

In doing so I spoke with everyone on the street, from investment banks to some big name corporate development people and they all said the same thing: Everyone's hiring again.

That's all I have to say I hope you take my advice it's a small thing that makes a big difference going forward don't try to be like the others focus on business guys like me and what we need and success will be around the corner.

All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

Since the story as seems to be bigger than just «Osama being used and abused» but it was always every crime made by inelegance or the crime world was tagged to him being behind it... even those who wanted to collect the insurance of their buildings the blew them up and tagged it to the late, even those who enjoyed the fluctuations of shares prices have made their moves to effect the same and tagging it to the late... It is not that i know but rather being every thing is possible to fabricate... What ever the case might be or made done, we say; Believers: The Ultimate Victors [2:216] Fighting may be imposed on you, even though you dislike it.

it's a great thing to think universally — something most Westerners don't do and instead focus on a small narrow bubble — but sometimes universal is just too big and it helps to think provincally — and certainly more practical

I just need help on to what to pray about because I want to do big things but I want God to help get to where I want to be?

Especially in the latter case but also in the former, however, it's not typical for whole neighborhoods to be targeted in fraudulent cases, as that is (a) a lot riskier than doing something to your own property both in terms of getting caught in the first place as well as the penalties you will incur, (b) makes you at most part of something apparently bigger and denies the fraudster of the unique victimhood they seek and (c) in the case of insurance fraud, involves damaging things you can't collect on.

And when employees at Big Star Sandwich, a local eatery, heard about it, they did the only reasonable thing: They offered Neeson a free sandwich by writing the offer on the restaurant's sidewalk sandwich board sign.

And then, when, like most of the kids in the youth groups or Bible colleges, we found ourselves in a rather usual sort of life, surprisingly not preaching to thousands on a weeknight, we were left feeling like failures, like somehow we weren't measuring up, we weren't serving God effectively, we must have missed it because isn't our life supposed to be about doing big, successful things for God?