Sentences with phrase «good at»

You're on your diurnal cycle, and what alcohol's really good at doing is completely f — king your body clock up — you'll stay up when you're meant to go to sleep, you'll sleep at times when you're supposed to stay up.

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

Anyone can become more confident through one simple practice: Getting good at things.

She was very good at closing the sale, and in doing so, she brought extra cash flow into the business that helped pay for her job.

However, chances are technicians who can make an amazing product are not so good at taking it to market.

Hopefully, I've proven to be pretty good at my job, but the reality is that my skill set isn't unique.

«We got down to the nuts and bolts of what we're good at and what we can bring to the marketplace.»

On the other hand, I looked the part, I spoke with confidence, and I spent a huge amount of time learning new skills and getting good at finding answers in a hurry.

«Look at other small businesses that are good at marketing and that already have a strong social media following,» Levin advised.

It's true, we don't need to be good at everything.

«A.I. is really good at solving well - posed problems,» Feast says.

Watson said, «Advancing as a manager requires getting good at choosing the right people for jobs.»

When we were kids, we learned that we couldn't get good at something unless we practiced and practiced.

Nobody can be quite as good at producing these things without that ability to visualize it.

The next hardest thing after that is giving up the things that you enjoy, but aren't especially good at.

Making connections in the league certainly helps, but coaches believe that the best way to make a reputation in the league is simple: be good at your job.

The soup is good at Soup Shop, but the line is out the door, no thanks.

«We're doing very well, and that's primarily because the Irish VCs are particularly good at syndicating deals for Irish companies,» Breheny says.

Takeaway: You can't beat having team members who are pleasant and friendly to each other, and are both good at and love what they are doing.

T.F. Get good at pausing and thinking of the long game.

So over time I've gotten fairly good at Social Jiu - Jitsu, the ancient art of getting people to talk about themselves.

You simply can't get good at reading people without developing your self - awareness, which takes a fair degree of emotional intelligence.

One of my favorite Gary Vaynerchuk quotes of all time is «I suck at 99 percent of stuff, but I go all out on that 1 percent I'm good at.»

The easiest part is giving up the things that you neither enjoy, nor are good at.

Being good at asking the right questions to draw them out so that you can evaluate them properly is very important.»

Yet, somehow, as we become adults we tend to stop wanting to practice things that we are not good at.

«But not everybody is as good at picking up on social cues and it isn't always easy to know if you're in sync with each other or not.»

Whether it's getting on stage to speak, launching your product or writing a book, we tend to see others doing it and incorrectly assume that they've always been good at it.

«We try to shift the focus onto strengths and spend more of our time identifying what people are good at and finding jobs for them that play to their strengths.»

«Even if you're really good at that as a company, you'll always be off.»

The next hardest thing is giving up the things you don't enjoy but are still pretty good at.

The best way to get good at this is every time you read a name tag, see a name on a billboard, meet someone, or hear a name for the next 30 days, turn it into an image.

If someone isn't active on LinkedIn, it doesn't mean they're not good at what they do.

«Solutions» include pre-emptive activities such as building long - term relationships with future founders or mentoring at incubators to meet teams pre-seed, plus getting really good at reference diligence, but we still rely upon accelerating the «would we work well together» discussion during fast - moving investments.

This is the only way to become good at anything and it works hand - in - hand with confidence.

We're very good at launching Mario Party - type games — that's one franchise that does better in Canada than other markets, for example — but when it comes to launching new IP it's a huge challenge in today's world, where consumers are just bombarded with entertainment options that didn't exist when we first launched Mario 30 years ago.

He's actually a warm, intelligent and interesting guy who happens to be an introvert who isn't very comfortable with — or good at — speaking and communicating his ideas and expectations.

Finally, the hardest part of all is giving up the things that you both enjoy and are good at, because there's simply too many of them for you to do all by yourself.

If you're a compelling and confident speaker, people assume you're good at other things too.

It involves being good at reading others» emotions and body language.

If you're good at what you do, the same will happen to you, and when it does realize it means you've arrived!

The well - paid Stanford and MIT grads whose job it is to make their product addictive are very, very good at what they do.

But by agreeing to do something they might not like or might not believe in, they run the risk of either being good at something they don't like to do, or not doing well because they are unhappy — both of which are bad outcomes.

It helps if you're good at talking to just about anyone.

One more thing Netflix has over traditional studios: It is so good at cloud computing that it has put its «studio in the cloud,» Hunt says, and uses cloud computing to do everything from managing logistics (like union drivers delivering cameras to a location) to film editing (uploading the footage to be edited immediately in another country).

But just because they're good at selling does not necessarily mean they're good at leading.

«The U.S. is good at creating job opportunities for young people, but in other countries, there just are not as many job opportunities for people between the ages of 16 and 25,» he says.

It may be that the sales manager who feels the need to offer bribes simply isn't very good at his job and is looking for ways to succeed without having sufficient talent or making sufficient effort.

The problem is that we don't want to do things we aren't good at, so we never get better.

Fine tune your ability to take feedback and get good at turning it into positive results.