Not exact matches
How can I most effectively «pause» my current task, dive into a complex
discussion with a client, and subsequently emerge
just as
focused as I was before?
As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media
focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's
just not part of our public
discussion and who are really in dire straits.»
«Nobody's
focusing on reducing the amount of communication we have to deal with: we're
just having more and more
discussions across more and more tools.»
After all the controversy of last week, it's tempting to turn this post into a
discussion on gendered language around the Holy Spirit (feminine in Hebrew and Aramaic, typically neuter in Greek, masculine in this particular text), but that's
just not how this passage is «singing» to me today, so instead I'd like to
focus on Jesus» stirring and tender words in verse 18: «I will not leave you as orphans.»
«We're
just focused on making this year's event as good as it can be and we'll be in
discussions with Deutsche Bank about the future.»
The
discussion online seems to be
focusing on sugar per se and my feelings about it — as if I
just couldn't countenance the number of sugar grams in HISD breakfasts for one more minute, threw up my hands and marched off the committee in a huff.
Just this past Friday, I spent a good chunk of an afternoon working with a national security -
focused nonprofit, helping them set up a process of adapting their rich store of content to a new website soon to go live — a
discussion that's partly about information architecture, partly about writing and partly about search engine optimization.
For the record, here's what Paterson had to say about borrowing
just last week, insisting he had never ruled it out, altogether, but was chagrined that it had become the
focus of
discussion (thanks, of course, to his hand - picked LG, Richard Ravitch):
primarily opinion - based -
discussions focused on diverse opinions are great, but they
just don't fit our format well.
«
Just as leaders in Michigan rightly directed the conversation to Flint in their hour of need, I am urging that we pivot the physical venue to a site like the Brownsville Recreation Center and subsequently
focus the
discussion matter to solutions for issues impacting historically disenfranchised communities of color,» Adams said.
Also, if you are asking the question, be confident you can provide an answer and also be ready to facilitate the
discussion so that it is quick and helpful and does not take up a lot of time, again,
focusing on
just one student.
This
focus may, like myself, leave some viewers disappointed that the marvellous work of Waking Life gets very little
discussion yet it's probably his most thought provoking film and shadows the fact that, to begin with, Linklater was a philosopher that
just happened to choose celluloid as the medium in which to express himself.
Just like good classrooms are built on reliable systems and structures, a positive faculty meeting should utilize protocols and processes that ensure all voices are heard, that no single voice dominates, and that
discussion stays
focused and productive.
Their
focus was always on learning, engaging students, what pedagogies they were doing, what they were doing with curriculum,
just the whole
focus was on that sort of professional
discussion and that
focus.
A lesson
focusing on the resurrection which I've put up for free as I have pretty much
just rehashed the case of the missing body mystery lesson with a few more
discussion points before it.
But if they could
focus on
just one thing, they could do a lot worse than provoking a more meaningful
discussion of these issues.
primarily opinion - based -
discussions focused on diverse opinions are great, but they
just don't fit our format well.
Companies like Copia have kept the
focus more squarely fixed on the educational opportunities that social reading presents, such as allowing students around the world and professors at different institutions to all come together within the ebook to foster
discussion and understanding; at the same time, companies like Readmill
just enjoy the possibilities of connecting readers of fiction titles in what amounts to almost a virtual book club.
Discussion to
focus on how knowing what engages readers, not
just what they purchased, can unlock important business intelligence and revenue opportunities for publishers.
Please, don't
just focus on «dogs and cats, dogs and cats» when you deliver this very timely
discussion.
He's
just saying that the
discussion regarding controls has been done to death already, and he wants to
focus on analyzing other aspects of the game for once.
We intend the Indie
Focus series to be an ongoing
discussion between LambdaGeneration writers about the indie releases on Steam that intrigue us, and that perhaps warrant more coverage than
just a single review.
GR / VR is a virtual reality -
focused event
just for Game Republic members, and includes special talks and
discussions from the cutting edge of VR / AR / MR development.
The first room
focuses not
just on collectivity, but also on what a wall label calls «connectivity»: artists gathering casually in the 1940s at a cafeteria in Greenwich Village and eventually forming the Club, which met for both social purposes and panel
discussions centered on philosophy, music, poetry, literature and film.
Because of the limited length of our letter we were not able to present a comprehensive
discussion of the scientific literature that is being cited in support of these linkages so we
focused on
just one of them: the paper by Francis and Vavrus, «Evidence Linking Arctic Amplification to Extreme Weather in Mid-Latitudes,» in which it is argued that Arctic warming is linked to a range of extreme events in midlatitudes, including the kind of persistent cold that we have been experiencing this winter.
Mr. Wilson's description brought to mind
discussions I had around 2001 with Karl Flessa, a scientist at the University of Arizona whose
focus has been the near - extinction of a clam species from the Colorado River delta that
just a century ago was so abundant that its shells still form beaches and dunes.
Likewise, on the radio show Breitbart News Daily, host Alex Marlow pushed EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to deny the link between climate change and hurricanes, which Pruitt did, stating, «For opportunistic media to use events like this to, without basis or support,
just to simply engage in a cause - and - effect type of
discussion, and not
focus upon the needs of people, I think is misplaced.»
But I think for today's
discussion, most importantly it
focuses very much on vehicle efficiency, and actually trying to get out and show people that these things can be done — much like the video we
just saw.
This
discussion has
just focused on load balancing or matching generated MWs to load MWs.
-- Contrarians»
focus on these «issues» is really
just cherrypicking through scientific evidence to support a pre-conceived agenda — Policy
discussion should not be excluded.
If the IPCC is unwilling to include a scientific
discussion of renewable energy and «clean coal» claims, then they should stay out of policy decisions entirely and
just focus on climate science, along with the rest of the climate science community.
So the first thing to be would to have those
discussions and
just try to find some area of
focus that you can really dive into and become the expert on.
It would be remiss to only
focus on the vehicles themselves in this
discussion, as auto insurance does more than cover
just vehicles against the risk of damage.
I had a
discussion with The BYU career and Employment Blog about why a
focused job search is so much more effective than
just playing the numbers.
So when you are facing challenges in your relationship, try
focusing on the positive, rewarding aspects of your relationship during your
discussions rather than
just the negatives, and start mirroring your partner's body movements.
Harkers continues, «Socially, if you surround yourself with people who are looking at different things they want to achieve financially, that makes it much easier for you because
just having those
discussions starts creating a greater
focus on productive ways to deal with money».