Sentences with phrase «good at a lot»

«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.»

«At the time I thought it was kind of pointless, but it ended up really exposing me to leadership opportunities and showing me that I wasn't good at a lot of things, instead of sticking to things that I was comfortable with.»

«She's very good at a lot of things,» says Ohanian in a recent interview on CNBC's «Squawk Box,» «and well on her way to being an awesome mom too.»

Vertical integration means we have to be good at lots of things which is hard.

Javier Baez is good at a lot of baseball things — great at some, even!

Giroud is Giroud, good at a lot of things but not top class and capable of being a talisman like the best ST at the club should be.

Thats a weakness to our D. Lowry and ddr are better at a lot of other things, but they are not that fast.

He doesn't really excel at any one thing, but he's pretty good at a lot of things.

«What we found is that there's this pattern, where dogs who are good at one of these social things tend to be good at lots of the related social things, and that's the same thing you find in kids, but you don't find it in chimpanzees,» he said.

Chewie may be good at a lot of things, but photography's not his strong suit This was all me and the self - timer with our point - and - shoot on a tripod.

Is the city you call home the place to find that Yeah, a lot of cities are good at a lot of things.

The Camry is very good at a lot of things, but it's not necessarily the best at any one.

In this relatable tale, fifth - grader Albie is not very good at a lot of things, but with a little help from a new babysitter, he finds out that being himself is the most important thing.

With the App Store and its excellent design the iPhone does a few things exceptionally well and is decent or good at a lot of other things.

Americans are good at a lot of things - and spending money on healthcare is one of them.

Scientists aren't all that good at lots of things.

The HTC U11 is good at a lot of things.

Everyone is good at something — some people are good at lots of things.

I've always been good at a lot of things, but not outstanding at any one skill set.

I've never been good at lots of stuff, so the not overdoing it is by necessity, I guess!

Not exact matches

«The CEO wanted to have a certain culture at the company, but he had a lot of other priorities to focus on as well,» Duffin says.

Allen notes that there are lots of consumer - friendly carbon dioxide detectors on the market, adding that the research found that people performed best at CO2 levels of 500 to 600 ppm.

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 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.

The higher bands are good for relaying lots of data in densely populated open spaces — say, a stadium — but they are notoriously bad at penetrating walls.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

For one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortune.

And, without realizing it was happening, learning to memorize a deck of cards helped me develop techniques that make me a lot better at remembering the names and faces of people I meet — as well as a bunch of other things.

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.

There's lots of places for you to find out about the best computers — but none with the focus on business that we have here at Inc..

All this said, with scant new regulatory activity on the horizon at the federal level, siloed statutes at the state level are a whole lot better than nothing.

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

People share a lot of information, and if you take the time to listen to what they are saying, you will be in the best possible position to have meaningful conversations with the right people, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that moment.

But at the same time, there's still a lot of room for companies to grow simply by automating workflows in a vertical that hasn't been served well by incumbent software companies.»

«This speech rings true, makes sense, and is freshly phrased and well - articulated,» he says, adding a joke: «At this rate, he'd make a heck of a lot better Republican presidential candidate than Ted Cruz!»

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.

While there's nothing wrong with enjoying the thrill that comes along with running a company that is performing at its very best and generating lots of sales, as a leader, it's important not to forget exactly who is making those numbers go through the roof — your employees.

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

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.

Anywhere from a third to half of the population fits the definition of being introverted, meaning these people are at their best in quieter environments compared with the extroverts who do well with a lot of stimulation.

The good news: You probably can't run down the battery, anyway — at least not without going to a lot of trouble to do so.

On those days when you feel a little flat, one glance at your success board and you feel a whole lot better.

When I was in Germany, I spent most of my time at the Landstuhl hospital, which is one of the best in the world, and that helped me a lot.

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

Having been at Augusta last year for the Masters, I have a much better sense of what it's like, and that will make watching it on TV a lot more fun.

«I think Bernie's a helluva guy and has a lot of good ideas, but clearly he missed a couple days of class when they were going over economics at the U. of Chicago,» writes Jeremy Thornton, an account executive at Lamar Advertising, a small ad firm in Bridgeport, West Virginia.

The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

She received her masters in marriage and family therapy, but discovered the best therapy was laughter and found she could bring lots of laughter to a large amount of people at once through social media.

If businesses are to grow and employ more people, they have to be the best at what they do — they need to innovate at an exceptional level or execute a helluva lot better than competitors.

Like a lot of the best work you see at Cannes, it was an earnest effort to erase the distinction between art and science in the honest pursuit of results.