Sentences with phrase «get at a lot of things»

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.

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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.

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.»

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

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.

When the bubble is expanding rational entrepreneurs should focus on three things: a) raise a lot of money at a large valuation, b) getting a lot of customers (who are willing to spend), and c) selling.

«I committed myself to learning, working, succeeding, failing at one thing for a lot of years and eventually, I got really good.»

«I loved to get them a lot of things to put under the tree at Christmas, because it was just so much darn fun to watch them when they were little, opening the gifts and enjoying them,» said Davis, who lives in Mesa, Ariz..

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

Malcolm Gladwell may or may not have been completely right when he claimed that becoming a true expert in any subject requires 10,000 hours of practice, but whether his exact number stands up to scrutiny, the underlying truth still holds — getting good at things is time - consuming and involves a lot of hard work.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials.»

GREENBLATT: Well you know I taught at Columbia as I mentioned for the last 22 years and so I tell my students that first day of class actually, I tell them that you know I don't think there's a lot of social value in being an investment manager, it's not that I don't think investors who do work set help set prices and allocate capital and all those things, but I just think A, they're not very good at it, and B, it'll get done without you.

So all that penalising has got us nowhere — spammers have just moved onto the next thing and it has resulted only in costing many genuine businesses that aren't SEO exports an awful lot of money and time undoing things; things that were done in good faith because at the time, that was how natural search worked.

I was thinking this the other day, when a lot of the Facebook executives get on Twitter and feel victim - y, they're doing their victim - y dance right now a lot of the time, and at one point, Boz, Bosworth, when he said, «Maybe people will die,» that memo, and instead of being like, «Oh god, we really have to be more mature about this,» their thing was, «We can't talk now.»

[JC] The thing I do with my wife (who is also a graphic artist) is we go on tons of vacations.So, when I get back from tour (after about a week or so) we'll go on a vacation together.It gives my wife something to look forward to, and during that time I'll try not to do any work at all.It's kind of goofy, but I think we have a lot more quality time versus quantity time.

And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us.

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 also if i have and your answer is yes then if there is a way to get the holy spirit back then please tell me and also please pray for me for a few days and i also want to know that really is the unforgivable sin unforgivable and really i swear on my mother that i don't want to go to hell forever and i am very scared of it please help me urgent and also i am sending a friend request to you on facebook and please accept it so that we can talk on this matter together and also i think you will like my page and i couldn't sleep properly because of this and in my half sleep in my dreams i was just visiting your website and finding my comment missing and i as pleasing god and the holy spirit but as i was receiving my spirit again and again as i mentioned this in my previous comment i was abusing in my mind i couldn't stop abusing and i have a very good mother she tried to wake me but i told her not to do and it was happening same things again and again and i told my mother again the half truth because i don't want to break her heart and she told me that there is nothing like ghosts and they are making me fools (you all) and i am telling you honestly before this i irritate my mother a lot i just watch tv and surf the internet or play games in my pc and i eat and brush late and also don't listen to my parents but after i saw your website i became obedient for a few days and again the same i am disobedient your webpage or article ruined my life but this is not your fault and now days i am buy searching about this topic and my father (Vivek Saraf) broke his hands on the 6th May while riding at a very high speed he normally don't go at a very high speed but he had a very important work so whole he was riding a dog was running on the way and to save his life he gave a very hard brake and he with his nebiour fall down and got injuries in his legs and broke his hands and at first he walked with difficulty and then the local people helped him on his way and took him to the local hospital but the doctor told that we need to go to Kollkata (the capital of west bengal, India) and so he went with his loyal staff because he is a business man and in the hospital he got cured but he still have the fracture in his hands so i request you to pray for him and his negibour also and i will tell you the rest in facebook bye and sorry for spelling mistakes in my previous comments.

Describing North Korea as a «brutal regime», President Donald Trump said: «A lot of bad things happened, but at least we got him home to be with his parents.»

His wife is so nervous she is ill; things at the office with all his best help gone are terrible; government orders have to be got out on time or there'll be a lot of money lost.

If some fish get left in Seattle or Chicago, it becomes a monumental task to get it on the next aircraft before you have a lot of money involved, and the first thing everybody does is point a finger at somebody else.»

I looked at your first book in my favourite bookstore often but I have to admit I didn't buy it (yet), but copied a lot of recipes from it (trying not to get caught by the salesgirl)... I like everything from the oven, and I like swiss breads and other things from the oven and I like ice cream and israeli meals.

Your going to laugh, so earlier this week I had this coupon thing come in the mail for one of those Emergency Prepardness places and they are giving 50 pound bags of quick oats for only $ 19.95, and since I eat a lot of Oatmeal in the winter, this sounded like a not to be passed up on deal, so that is where I am headed at 10 am in the morning, LOL And I might even get 2 bags, since the stuff stores and lasts forever:) But with 50 - 100 pounds of oats, I could use a few ideas, I am going to try some of these!

Beans Beans get a lot of things right when it comes to giving yourself the best chance at a healthy heart.

As someone who recently got bugged by a trainer at my gym... «You know, she says... you do a lot of cardio but you'll never keep it off if you don't strength train... I'm just sayin»» I totally hear you that everyone has their own thing.

«We've got a lot of the right things in place to support our franchisees at this point.»

We rented a 10 yard dumpster and got rid of SO many things that were cluttering up our home; we've also donated lots of items and even sold some at a yard sale.

And that way you could compare, at a glance, when you're shopping, when you've got your kids in the trolley, which is, you know, a challenging thing for people, and people with poor eyesight who can't understand the nutrition information panel and can't understand the daily intake guide, which we know people have a lot of difficulty with, not everybody carries a calculator and makes all those... works it all out as they go through their day.

I've been able to save a lot of money on things like almond butter by getting it at Trader Joe's!

But the thing is, and it's tough to get around — based on the layout of talent in this draft — there are a lot of similarly talented players from where the Cowboys pick at 19 through the end of the first round.

i get where you are going at but not a lot of the top teams were in the need of a top striker the ones who were already bought a striker at the start i.e. chelsea and man u and man city (nolito) and tottenham, of course there should have been other top clubs in search of a striker but i think it shouldn't be a knock - down that we were the only one who triggered the clause but i agree with all the other things you said the its absurd to compare him with griez and vardy and we have to be patient with him

Le Prof got a lot of stick for not making full use of his squad by rotating at Goodison Park, and knowing how stubborn he is I am nearly certain that he will stick with the same team this week, but at least they have had 5 days to recover and they will all be eager to get things right this time around.

Some of that is down to the aero - heavy nature of the car, but F1 Sporting Boss, Ross Brawn, reckons circuit layouts have got a lot to do with it as well and he's looking at ways things can change in order to improve things.

because the lack of discipline in arsenal team.Look at ferguson as Manchester united; no almighty, no big and no important players.Sanctions are front of players» doors whoever you are.I know someone is chosen as discipline mate in arsenal but a lot of complain between them.Arsenal players, their body language looks like they hate themselves.There are no unity between them.They are not happy.they do not want play for one (one team one goal or one team, one leader and one goal) because many of them they are there for longtime why them just come and become a leader.this is a question of light of one of you.and you can be lighted by him.One thing arsenal players forget.let light of one of you to be shone then you are going to get your part.

I feel a lot more comfortable and it suited my game a lot better, I could time my runs into the box and get on the end of things and I could have had two or three goals but at the end of the day I'm happy.»

we have waited a long time for this club to truly step up, which is a difficult ask... to do so properly they will need to overextend themselves and get well outside the comfort zone they have become accustomed to... at the very least they owe their fans, most of whom supported this franchise for at least the first 8 years of this 10 year plan, one real shot at the «promised» land... remember phase one was build and save, phase two was the fire sale of all our top players, phase three was supposed to be our metamorphosis, when we were literally told how we could compete with any club in the world and phase four appears to be rinse and repeat, under the guise that we just can't seem to find any players that are better than our current lot (can you even imagine the state of world soccer if that were truly the case)... it's time for you Mr. Kroenke and Mr. Wenger to ask not what the fans can do for you, but what you two can do to make things right again for the fans... if you can't do this earnestly and honestly, simply move on before the only thing left in the cupboard are bitter memories and what could have beans?

(Neither Motley nor Brewer were particularly good at the «get the ball out of your hands quickly» thing and took a lot of sacks that might or might not have been the line's fault.)

Say what you like admin.Even Diaby upon doing nothing for several seasons was able to secure a move to Marseille which to me is a top team.Was it not last season that before he went to Bournemouth teams like Juventus and AS Roma were interested in him?He just needs a league which is not physical for the mean time.I mean any time he gets a run of games he begins to hit top forn and just when things are looking up things go down again.This injury thing is a menace in our club.Look at the number of games Gnabry has played.But I will urge him to leave Arsenal because all he needs to do is to remain injury free.It's not rocket science.If Wilshere remains injury free for just one season he'll be great.It's just like the Van Persie case.A lot of people were frustrated with him and cllled him man of glass but I knew he just needed to be injury free for one season.To me he's a better player than Ramsey though Ramsey is on form.He also has the ability to surpass Cazorla and be Arsenal's number one.He's also Arsenall thrugh and through.Arsenal has to solve his injury problems because he's shown that when he gets a run of games he can do it.

Both Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne have spent a lot of time at the Circuit de Barcelona - Catalunya standing next to a broken MCL32 and things don't seem to be getting much better as time goes on, with Alonso already having broken down twice this morning!

He is not a quality striker because he makes a lot of mistakes in his game.The fact that he scores 20 goals does not mean he is a quality back up striker.It is one thing to be a goal scorer and another thing to be a good or average player.Goal scoring is a very important aspect of a player but not the only aspect.Trust me you can score 20 goals in all competitions and still be average.If Chamakh, Gervinho and all the so called flops scored this same goals they would still have been considered not good enough for Arsenal.His game is just not good enough and I for one believe even if no one believes that we can get a backup striker who is better than him and also a top centre forward.Its all about mentality and willingness.Forget his goals and look at his game or else you'll force me to bring up strikers in the world who have scored his same goals and are even considered terrible.

«We did a lot of good things but there's things we have to get better at,» Detroit center Henrik Zetterberg said.

Quality is not all about goals or stats you know.If it was a lot of Arsenal players would have been sold and many players would not even be regarded.People need to look at the bigger picture.He scored 16 goals last two season as the starting CF.You and I know that based on the chances he gets he should've been doing better.The guy is not even a clinical player from what we watch yet people will always deny that fact.The only case people make up for Giroud is his goals.They can't even talk about his quality on the ball and others because it's non existent.He was part of the reason why Arsenal couldn't win the trophy in 15/16 season.It's a shame we are compromising and refuse to state things the way they are.Even if Giroud scores 40 goals in the EPL qualoty wise he's still average.

In the grand scheme of things, one of the most important things that happened to Arsenal Football Club this season may well turn out to be the medical staff at the club getting to the bottom of the reason why Aaron Ramsey kept picking up little muscle injuries that recurred and kept him out of the Arsenal team for a lot longer than they should have.

Trevor Biebrach and David Zoberman have been great at the plate to start the Campaign and a lot of this Roster is just getting to know one another, which is a scary thing, as they will only improve when chemistry grows..

We have a large squad with lots of quality for one thing and with the quality of our opponents surely down on what we get in the Champions League you would expect Arsenal to at least get through our group if not win it.

«When you have a lot of talent at the beginning of your coaching career, you can implement things that will work and then you can get credibility with winning and grow as a coach while you are winning and it's a much easier process that way,» he said.

«At the start of the week, I would say the biggest trophy that would mean a lot to me would be the Player of the Year,» said Ko after finishing T7 at 11 - under at Tiburon in Naples, Fla. «I think the great thing is we've got three different winners, winner of Player of the Year and then winner of the Tour ChampionshiAt the start of the week, I would say the biggest trophy that would mean a lot to me would be the Player of the Year,» said Ko after finishing T7 at 11 - under at Tiburon in Naples, Fla. «I think the great thing is we've got three different winners, winner of Player of the Year and then winner of the Tour Championshiat 11 - under at Tiburon in Naples, Fla. «I think the great thing is we've got three different winners, winner of Player of the Year and then winner of the Tour Championshiat Tiburon in Naples, Fla. «I think the great thing is we've got three different winners, winner of Player of the Year and then winner of the Tour Championship.

It's a bit of an understatement to say that Van Gaal has got a lot of things wrong in his time at United, but whether the number of academy debutants has come about by accident or design, youth development is certainly not one of them.