Sentences with phrase «get at nothing»

I can get at nothing solid about her but her fears and foibles and unfulfilled desires.

Not exact matches

But a micro-manager won't delegate something unless the person is actually better than they are at the task — 120 % better — which means that nothing ever really gets delegated off your desk.

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.

At the University of Southern California this year, Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chairwoman on several boards, not only spurred students to find someone to be passionate about — but also to expand their bandwidth of diversity by getting to know people with whom they have seemingly nothing in common.

A few minutes of shut - down is better than nothing at all, so don't get discouraged if you can't dedicate a proper 30 minutes or full hour.

Get her talking about the philanthropic impact of her work — with every sale, each of her brands contributes to a related cause in the developing world — and it's apparent there's nothing at all flippant about her audacity.

«Bezos owns the Washington Post, which the president believes is out to get him, and I worry that he'll stop at nothing to humble its owner.»

Millionaires know that knowledge is power, and they stop at nothing to get it.

There's nothing wrong with listening to CDs either, just don't expect to get a job at a recording studio if you show up to your interview rocking a Walkman.

As the website says, you have nothing to lose by looking at its offerings — and getting started is only one click away.

As he notes, while investors who have risked their funds in a company «lose real dollars» when a stock declines, option holders lose nothing and even get a second chance to buy the stock at a better price.

It may be less trendy than some of the other flashier ways to get cash, but it's nothing to laugh at.

«Doing nothing is hard at first,» he allows, «but if you get good at it, you don't even have to wait until you are on a plane or dining alone.

On the 147th page of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, at the start of the «In Conclusion» section, the following sentence appears: «There is probably nothing in this book which you did not already know at some level of your experience.»

In a world where so many leaders will stop at nothing to get elected to another term, rope in another client, book another gig, sell more products, or grow the bottom line, it still takes honesty and integrity to breed trust and credibility — the cornerstone of strong, long - term business relationships.

You can look at the picture, but it's hard to describe the experience of getting behind the wheel and seeing absolutely nothing that you're used to.

«We got involved in biotech in the late 90's when two of our children were diagnosed with a rare genetic disease... at the time there was nothing,» said Crowley «So we really focused as parents initially on what could we do to help drive science to a cure.

For example, if a driver gets a low rating and is accused of speeding or driving unsafely during the ride, Uber could look at the driving data to determine what happened.Though Uber could reserve looking at the data only when there is a complaint, nothing prevents it from actively monitoring its drivers to regularly conduct quality control and make sure there's no unsafe behavior.

In theory, nothing is stopping big companies from taking the same strategy approach as startups do, as I teach in my seminar «Three Ways to Get Back Your Company's Start - upness» at Babson College's Executive Education Center.

«There's nothing like walking from the 1st floor of a modern looking expensive, trendy restaurant until you get out of the public area and go down the creaky unpainted wooded stairs and find a basement with damp stone foundation walls, puddles of water on the ground, and a crew of people cooking soup in a 10 gallon pot which is on the ground at the time.»

In fact, if nothing else, you could say that the story of Andy Grove — a busboy who fled a life lived under Fascists, Nazis, and Communists to get an education at an institution free to all, including refugees, then taking that knowledge and using it to help invent an entire industry — illustrates exactly what makes America great.

And he offers anecdotes aplenty about booze, drugs and sex — the latter of which he encouraged at his own agency, because «nothing got creative people to come in early and leave late better than the prospect of sexual adventure.»

«Interest is like rent: The longer you pay interest, the more interest you pay — and at the very end, you get nothing back.»

Obama got more legislation through at the beginning of his presidency, but nothing that holds a candle to the Affordable Care Act.

Fowler says that she was «one of those people» for most of her life, knowing nothing about forced arbitration until she experienced what she describes as illegal treatment at Uber, after which she says she discovered that she «had no way to get justice.»

However, if a validator acts in a malicious manner and tries to do a «nothing at stake», they will immediately be reprimanded, and all of their stake is going to get slashed.

... It's true, people do really like getting something for nothing and though it may sound risky at first, giving stuff away really can have its advantages in terms of generating all - important leads.

But it's still an important shift for an investment banker and unabashed capitalist to start laying inequality at the feet of executives instead of simply blaming the poor for being lazy know - nothings who deserve what they get.

Berkshire was selling below it's working capital per share, you got plants for nothing, you got machinery for nothing, you got the inventory and receivables at a discount.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

So far nothing special from any of the companies I hold and now I started doubting too if we will get anything one time special dividend or one time buybacks or anything even dividend growth has been generally in - line with past years at least for the companies I hold so far.

You need to laser focus your efforts on getting the right message in front of the right people at exactly the right time — an uphill battle on the best of days, to say nothing of how tricky things can become if you're on a budget.

WASHINGTON — Standing before vast crowds from Washington to Los Angeles to Parkland, Fla., the speakers — nearly all of them students, some still in elementary school — delivered an anguished and defiant message: They are «done hiding» from gun violence, and will «stop at nothing» to get politicians to finally prevent it.

It got heavily redacted documents or nothing at all (Trans Mountain cited confidentiality concerns).

With a very fast network, that's the right thing to do, but on a slow network, if you download many pictures at once, everything gets stuck and nothing works.

Rewards cards can feel like you're getting something for nothing, or, at the very least, something extra for your everyday spending.

They are problem solvers who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty, and who stop at nothing until goals are reached.

I just laid around, drank lots of water, did absolutely nothing at all, and still got a little dizzy and the beginnings of headaches.

Now what do we get in return, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, oh those who are enjoying the good life at our expenses will tell us that their particular god makes the sun shine each day and provides food and protection.

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

RELIGION - there has always been this invisible magical man with no explanation, got bored and thought hey i want some company and * POOF * created everything from nothing besides man that he used dirt to make and women that he used a rib to create then for the next generation a lot of incest happened and now we are at 6 billion people in only 6,000 years were the majority of people will suffer for eternity to do not believe in him, even though he could easily save them...

They got bored at their home and found nothing to excite their lives....

There is nothing at all beyond that, but when people get all their science information from religious websites it shows in their ignorance.

ok sure we all lived perfect little lives that nothing ever went wrong... except for: (mind you this is my life) 1) witnessing mother get punched in the face at 5 by stepfather 2) being removed from mother custody at 6 while watching sisters cry and having to lie to them to make them feel better.

you cant put your finger on it, cant smell it, or taste it, but your soul will rejoice, if you have one left... this is your connection to the world, to the universe... nothing else really matters at all... we see all of this creation, and we've got the math and science to figure out a tenth of it, but if we cant realize that it was put here ultimatly out of love, and saved by the love of ONE true God, then we are blind even to that tenth... God is great, and may he bless you athiest, muslim, christian, jew, gay, whatever... God is Love, but rest assure He is also our Judge, the Judge of our hearts, hope you get them right.

Either you take both presents or you get nothing at all.

Me and the wife were just getting in the mood to be fruitful and multiply, when I heard this voice in my head chatting away about nothing intresting at all and wouldn't stop, kind of broke the mood.

I have nothing against christians at all until they get some burr on their ass about how their religious stuff overrules people not of their particular little group.

They are rich, they get lots of money from big corporations, and at the end of the day, they vote for nothing that may make a poor person's life better.

That right there has got to be one of the anti-climax stories ever told, but because Stephen in the account given is said to be looking right into heaven at the time and he is said to be seeing angels, God, Jesus, all of them that he could see, and... they did nothing but watch him die.