Sentences with phrase «first get the thoughts»

Yes when I first got it I thought it was too big, that I was swimming in it.

While I haven't worked at Pearson for some years now, it will always be meaningful to me as I started my publishing career at Pearson Education (Maskew Miller Longman) in Cape Town, and it was Pearson head office's promotion of technology and content management that first got me thinking about new forms of publishing and sparked my interest in content management.

Not exact matches

If we want things to get better, the first step is to clearly understand the problems and then to start thinking about what we can do to shut down the click - bait con artists, viral vultures, and other BS hucksters who are clogging up the critical arteries of the Internet with their cheap tricks and phony features.

«Think about understanding your own data and how to get value out of it first,» Peters says, «and then layer on more sophistication over time as you build more capabilities.»

I wake up every morning even today my first thought is, «How do I get one more customer?»

You'd think that, after a few years, it's a time that even a first timer starter - upper would get used to suffering through, but that's not how things work in the business of building new businesses.

Landau: I think what we had to get our heads around is the first «Avatar» was a marathon.

If you're thinking about getting friends and family to loan you money to fund your business, read this first.

I also think Robin is somewhere lookin» down and laughing, remembering the first time we met backstage and I (for the first time ever) was a star struck bumbling idiot that couldn't even get my words out.»

How do you think they got to be millionaires in the first place?

After that first year where I made the game that didn't do very well, I actually tried to get a job in a triple - A game company and they didn't hire me, which I think was a good decision on everyone's part.

For the first time, he gets to think bigger.

So my advice to you, if you feel that you just don't get enough time to think, is to book yourself in for your first «thinking vacation».

«Based on our prior experience in soda, I think we've concluded you've got to be very competitive in the first 18 months to emerge in the top two, three in a category,» said Boston Beer CEO Martin Roper during a conference call with analysts last month.

The first step isn't to think about an awesome idea for content, it's to think about where you can plausibly get a piece of content published.

I think the last thing you want to do is to turn around and embrace the policies that got us into trouble in the first place.

Last year he shared his career - transformation experience online — «How I got my first Valley - based product - management job in five weeks» — which has gotten him thinking about his personal brand.

As I'm getting ready for the first - ever Innovation Congress in New York City this July (which, disclaimer, I happen to be co-producing) I thought I'd speak to some of the innovators speaking at the conference, to find out which podcasts inspire them the most, and why.

That's the first thing sh-t barmen will do: They think it's actually better getting more liquid, but it isn't.

Based in New York City, the organization was labeled by Google as a «think tank» focused on developing technology to help people in emerging markets get online for the first time.

That's the only time I really got scared because this guy knew who I was... when I heard about the shooting, that was my first thought.

And when we launched in — I think it was February 2006 — we got about a million visitors within the first day.

The firm was a large - cap company that many investors know about, but more important than that, he added: «Getting that first corporate experience is key... It's one of the things that I think was extremely beneficial.»

Letting two domains of knowledge that are usually alien to each other mix and mingle is a sure fire way to get your brain humming, so the idea of applying the thinking of anthropology to the world of start - ups isn't as strange as it appears at first blush.

Do you think it's OK for hourly employees to get to work at 8 a.m. and then goof off for the first 10

«I think he was kind of the view that if he couldn't get a first - class person, he wouldn't hire anybody at all.»

He agreed — Cool told Fortune last October that she thinks he said yes because of Niver's connection to Omaha — and, as head of the organization, Cool got to have dinner with Buffett at his favorite restaurant during SWS's first annual trip to Berkshire Hathaway.

Schroepfer: I think that the first couple years of VR is just getting VR to work.

I've got ta tell you, this is a nightmare for any restaurateur, and I think it's only the first quarter of this dreaded transformation.»

Smith, one of the great philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, wasn't the first to speculate about how economies work, but he's generally thought of as the guy who more or less got it right.

First off, get over yourself in thinking that a degree is your ticket to a job.

I wish I knew earlier on that by sticking with an idea after failing, you are forced to find your own way forward and get back to what inspired you in the first place — whether it's addressing a hole in the market or thinking about a different way of doing things.

They get their first app running on their phone, and they never thought it would happen.

First we think about whether one of our core team members get really excited about the project.

«Over the next few months, the science team is really excited to get to Mount Sharp, where we think the layered rocks there have captured the major climate changes in Mars» history,» Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said in a new NASA video marking the rover's first Martian year.

When I first read Tuesdays With Morrie, the simplicity of this book and the gorgeous relationship between Mitch and Morrie became one of those zingers, and got me thinking about the people in my life who have had a lasting impact, whether or not they were aware of their role in altering the course of my life.

You can do the same thing, but first you'll need to think creatively, ditch conventionality and — most importantly — get your personal finances in check.

This is not the first time Graham has gotten burned for speaking too frankly about why he thinks Silicon Valley is so homogenous.

It's also the Customer Support team's job to ascertain that they choose the right path to get that outcome, so they might want to engage their users, but they don't want to have their users upset about being spammed, so it's our team's job to say again, «I can see why you might think that emailing five times in the first five days is good, but here's a few ideas about how you'll get to where you want to get to without doing the things that upset customers.»

Dr. Alan Schlechter: T he first one would definitely be the level of self - critical thought that people get caught up in.

When apathy starts to sneak in and you get your first hint of that «I just don't give a crap» feeling, think about taking some time to recharge, concludes Tarkan.

You know, especially when you started writing the music for your film and you get this layer of tenderness that I think would astonish people who saw your first films.

Jacobs: We've started to see the conversation around criminal justice change from what it had been forever, but do you think that change needs to happen on the local and state level first before we get to a national consensus?

With an itchy vagina, your first thought would probably be a yeast infection, and that is a good place to start — after all, an estimated 75 percent of women will get at least one yeast infection in her life, making it far more common than a semen allergy.

They think, «I better get the floor first so that I can be in charge of what happens,»» she adds.

So when you get on video it's easy to show personality and to show energy, and I think the first mistake people make is they're low energy, or not interesting.

When asked in a recent COMPAS Inc. poll what advice they would give someone finishing an undergraduate degree and thinking of doing an MBA, 66 % of the execs recommended getting job experience first.

«I remember when I first got there, walking into the first meeting with the executive committee thinking, «This is going to be interesting.

I remember seeing the first CDs in the box when it got delivered to Mom's house, opening it up and thinking, «Well, we've really made it.»

My first thought was: «Man, all these bootstrapped companies and this guy's got a personal assistant?»