Sentences with phrase «get at a lot»

In speech it's very difficult to get at a lot of things that we want to understand, because humans aren't willing to have needles and probes stuck through their vocal tracts.

Bruce Dern, even though he has canny - actor - in - a-calculated-putdown-role stamped all over him, gets at a lot of the despair «Big Bob» feels even as he strives to stay unaware of it, and in one long - take, traffic - noisy reminiscence in a parking lot — about a date he almost had with Liz Taylor the night she ran off to marry Nicky Hilton — he nails down that sense of Life's Big Moment Missed that Ivan Passer and Carroll O'Connor strove for so conspicuously and so unsuccessfully in Law and Disorder.

If you haven't read it yet you should check out the book «Warren Buffett's Ground Rules» — it gets at a lot of the points you make.

Oh, by the way, you can get it at a lot less cost, using a lot less materials (i.e. «resource efficiency») and using a lot less energy.

Not exact matches

JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

In the past month or so I've found myself complaining a lot about this because my drive time takes away from my work productivity, puts me in the office later, and fills me with intense anger directed at, well, everybody and nobody.Driving accomplishes nothing except getting me to the office.

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

«We've seen a lot of players looking for quick returns, and a lot of them will get caught,» says Reid at HGC.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

A lot of men in the comments are like, «no one talks this way,» and the women are like, «yes, I got yelled at in the street yesterday, and someone called me soy sauce!»

After all, there is a lot that must get done, and you have to be at your desk to do it.

He later quit his job at the bank to pen Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, an extended argument for how expensive oil would bring globalization to a halt.

Since everyone at the outset is doing multiple jobs and since you can't be everywhere at once, you've got to trust your people to do the right things in the moment, since there's no rule book, no time for extensive preparation and instruction, and there's rarely a second chance to make a great first impression with a lot of new and prospective customers.

They were asked to rank themselves at that moment in time on statements like: «I feel like most of my life lies ahead of me,» «My future seems infinite to me,» «Time is slipping away,» and «I have a lot of time in which to get things done.»

Retailers — and we've done a lot of studies on this — can get three to five times more marketing advantage with digital flyers than they can with print, at half the cost.

Elon Musk still has «a lot of stuff he needs to get right» at Tesla before exploring other opportunities, says Rebecca Lindland of Kelley Blue Book.

I'd like to see legislation pass at the federal level, and there's a lot of good activity at state levels that gets people the coverage they need.

Too many managers keep forgetting that it's a whole lot smarter and much cheaper in the long run to take a little more time at the outset to get things right the first time.

At the angel investor level especially, Bearse believes, «it seems like a lot of companies are getting funded, and it may not be sustainable.»

That's because, as he explains in more detail on an October episode of his show, when you're stuck at your desk, «you're getting a lot of stimuli that you didn't ask for — like other people's conversations and phone calls.

In 2013, I always worked hard to make sure that everything was 100 % perfect, but I know that if I keep growing at a 90 % rate that is 90 % perfect, I will get a lot farther than I did last year.

There is a lot of good data to show that multi-tasking is the one thing we get worse at with practice.

«A lot of the action you're able to take at the White House is by calling people up and saying, «Hey we're interested in getting this done, will you help,»» Fingert says.

According to Bill Styring, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, «It's going to get a lot worse.»

«A lot of people get discouraged about meditation because they like the idea of it, but then feel like they're «failing» at it because they just come face to face with the quality of distraction,» says Arden Pennell, Business Insider's program director.

It's a lot easier to get to [on - the - ground] truth,» says Matthew Granade, chief of the newly created data - crunching team at Point72, the reincarnation of Steven Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors.

Thanks to the Internet of Things, shopping at brick - and - mortar stores just got a lot more personal.

My days are quite well - prepared for me, and I sometimes feel like I'm being wound up at the beginning of the day and have got one hell of a lot of things on the plate.

But now the industry has gotten so good at that, they've flipped the lens and paid a lot more attention to revenue generation.

A lot of people expected him to get crushed at Microsoft, which is one of the hardest cultures in the world to join as an executive.

Hoover says the best way to get your product noticed is to build something compelling and interesting and to communicate it well so if someone is scanning a list of new products and taking in a lot of information quickly, he or she can easily understand the value proposition from looking at a tagline.

We got hit very, very hard at the end of the first Obama surge, while I was commanding the international hospital there, and there were a lot of casualties.

«If they can get a few winning films, they can put a lot of these problems behind them,» says Alan Gould, an analyst at Soleil Securities in New York.

«It's incredibly important because lately, this market's been led in part by the financials, and an important Fed head arguing for four hikes would be music to their ears, especially given that we are going to get a lot of bank earnings at the end of the week,» Cramer said.

«Find a way to read around your schedule and your life situation,» says Foroux, who suggests you could read on the train, while waiting at the doctor's office, while breastfeeding your baby (I can personally testify you can get through quite a lot of books this way), or during breaks at work.

It's easy to look back now and say that we should have done things differently, but it would likely have been a lot harder at that time to get shippers to sign on.

In peer countries like Canada, some citizens are taxed at higher rates throughout the year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development notes, but they get a lot more from their government in terms of social services, including health care.

That's how you get a more balanced culture as well since Hunters tend to break a lot of china in order to land a deal at any cost while Farmers tend to be far more steady and reluctant to make waves inside the organization.

«The price points are lower, the food quality happens to be better at a lot of these places, and people don't want to sit, wait, and get served and sometimes get bad service.»

«You want to get fuel in the tank so you've got lots of runway,» says Brad Johns, general partner at Yaletown Partners.

Office towers have a lot of lights, and the engineers get in at 4 a.m., so I would show up outside a parking garage at 4:30 a.m. to approach the engineers while they were having coffee and ask to show my light bulbs.

Abe had put a lot of personal political capital at stake in beating on the agricultural lobby, and not just the farmers... but the [agricultural] banks, pension schemes, all the rest, to get support for a US - led TPP deal, and then Trump pulls out,» Bremmer said, referring to the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal, spearheaded by Barack Obama, that Trump exited days after taking office in January 2017.

If it fails, at least a lot of people got clean water.»

It's worth taking a look at that Gates Foundation annual letter, because it includes a lot of data about how the world is getting better for the most disadvantaged people in it — and also how most of us are unaware of that fact.

By converting this you have a lot of benefits, you give employees an opportunity to get a normal job, so they can stay home with their families at nights.

«A lot of people are getting priced out, especially in the major cities,» Adam Kamins, senior economist at Moody's Analytics, told the Journal.

But China novice or not, when he says that «it seems as if this place is moving at such light speed that a lot of young people don't get a chance to have a second thought,» he's right.

Few adults get to play video games at the office, but if you're Jade Raymond, managing director of Ubisoft Entertainment SA's Toronto office, you can expect a lot of time in front of a screen.

I hate to say it, but a lot of the time when we (myself included) look at that breakdown, we get uncomfortable with how much we have left at the end of the day.

Adds Buzza, «If you're going to go after the biggest companies in Canada, you can expect that by the time you get to court, you're going to be up against a legal team with a lot of resources at its fingertips.»