Sentences with phrase «good idea of these things»

The «who knows» argument is a cop out, we do know, or at least have a pretty good idea of these things.

Check out the announcement trailer for a better idea of the things you'll be able to do in Cat Quest.

The reason for interest in the details of the observed trend is to get a better idea of the things we don't know the magnitude of (e.g. cloud feedbacks), not as a test of the basic theory.

The work is an estimate of the global average based on a single - column, time - average model of the atmosphere and surface (with some approximations — e.g. the surface is not truly a perfect blackbody in the LW (long - wave) portion of the spectrum (the wavelengths dominated by terrestrial / atmospheric emission, as opposed to SW radiation, dominated by solar radiation), but it can give you a pretty good idea of things (fig 1 shows a spectrum of radiation to space); there is also some comparison to actual measurements.

Spending some time in reflective introspection about the career choices you have made will give you a good idea of the things you value in your working like.

Not exact matches

If you're Thiel, you can abide all those things if you think Trump is what he actually may well be: a potential president so terrifying that a generation of Americans will come to fear the very idea of presidents — as well as the way that America elects them.

However, we should have a good idea of which way things are going by around 2.00 am, by which time the results in Wandsworth and Westminster will have come in.

While it's never a good idea to bet against Mother Nature or gravity, the good news is that many of the things most likely to bring your business down are man - made and sometimes the product of your own actions or — more likely - inactions.

This is a fundamental tech problem: Do you shape the product because you've got a good idea of how things could be improved?

This of course runs counter to so many cultures» idea that the individual is the most important thing, but the Rosetan community seems to buck the popular idea that we're better, healthier and happier alone.

Which is exactly the kind of thing Buffett does so well, whether it's showing up at a football game in essentially a costume, playing a ukelele at the annual meeting, or explaining how he'd gotten his investment idea by sitting naked in a bathtub.

«The idea of taking the actual account number out of the flow... common sense says that's a good thing, especially in the light of the data compromises that we've seen,» said Visa CEO Charles Scharf at a payments conference last month.

Though the idea may sound out of this world, the nascent space tourism industry is set to take off in the next decade, and humans will need a way to pay for things in space as well as send payments to Earth, said PayPal President David Marcus.

Looking into a crystal ball isn't exactly a scientific thing to do, but if you ask the right kinds of smart people you can get a pretty good idea what's likely to come down the pike.

The nice thing about being an adviser is if I don't convince someone, sometimes it has the effect of getting them to rethink their strategy and have a better idea on their own.

To get things started, he had some consulting gigs («major energy companies, I think you can say») as well as a DARPA grant, his 3 - D modeling software, and «a whole bunch of other ideas in the energy space.»

But then they said, «Why would a Cabinet member bring up the idea of a weaker dollar when things are going so well?»

The best idea is that, both in business and our overall lives, we are often drawn to things that provide gratification and positive reinforcement in the near term, such as wanting to answer all of the emails in our inbox before we leave for the day.

I love the 2 - Minute Rule because it embraces the idea that all sorts of good things happen once you get started.

«Lots of times there are very good ideas, but they're not as good as the most important things.»

One of the best things about a franchise is that there are so many wonderful business owners across the country that you can learn from and share ideas.

* In case you're wondering McKean's four things that investors want is: Your bio (especially with a startup, VCs want to see whether you are worthy of money, as well as your idea); momentum (you must show growth); money (you should have cash in the bank); and market (you need to have a Big Ididea); momentum (you must show growth); money (you should have cash in the bank); and market (you need to have a Big IdeaIdea).

The first thing I do for competitor research is to make a list of all my competitors and put them through SimiarWeb in order to get a good idea of which traffic channel (s) they are doing well in.

A place to share and explore ideas and trends as well as to contribute to thought leadership for the future of all things blockchain.

It's a good idea to take advantage of these, but they aren't necessarily the type of thing you report to a client.

The best thing about consulting business ideas is that the overhead is very low, with a lot of growth potential.

Those two things together helped shift our thinking to the idea of paying higher prices for better businesses» Charlie Munger

To help better put things into perspective, we have come up with a couple of reasons explaining why investing in bitcoin is such a good idea.

If we keep building on our openness — attracting the best and the brightest citizens, generating and exchanging new ideas and new ways of doing things and welcoming investment in our economy — Canada can position itself at the centre of the networked world that is emerging in the 21st century.»

Getting a more tangible idea of how you would plan your free time would be a good thing to do.

So I started writing the book and essentially what I quickly realized was that in trying to describe these things most people were probably not going to have a good idea of what I was talking about.

And I particularly play in the currency space and one of the thing that's attractive there is the idea that in eras where you have reckless central banking there's huge distinction between reckless central bankers and those who are engaged in reckless central banking with abadon and as a result I think that there becomes some real value disparities from a currency standpoint as well.

This idea of being inherently evil and never ever good enough and needing external forces to fix things has held me down for quite a while.

yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?

The great thing is that when we look at Scripture, we catch all kinds of glimpses of different ways we should be living, like Jubilee — good heavens, there's a great idea.

Similarly, those in the Church often have the idea that true sanctity means waving bye - bye to the enjoyment of life's good things, and learning to love things which are painful, boring, or painfully boring.

When I talk to God in prayer, I am talking to something deep within the fabric of my own being and asking for a better way, a better idea, and intuitive thought rather than to have some trivial thing of substance delivered to me on a platter.

I'm sick of defending my faith after the fact to nonbelievers that means I'm not pro-active in my faith.It really irritates me how Christians get so offended at these groups and decide, through their pious thinking, that the best thing to do is create an alternative to these days and other ideas.

Why would the HORRIBLE HEARTLESS things done by God qualify him as a good source for anyone's idea of «objective morality?

Note: If you want to read more about this idea of the cross being a bad thing that has been redeemed by God for the good, I highly recommend Saved from Sacrifice by S. Mark Heim.

And if things don't move in that direction - well, you might find he has nice friends, or he might turn out to be right for one of your friends, or you might just have a pleasant evening, or he might introduce you to some new ideas, books, music or interests.

The family resemblance consists in the idea that people do not need to know Jesus Christ to have some knowledge of what is right and good through the law of creation and conscience, that is, by way of «the things that have been made» (Romans 1:20).

If you are interested in church planting, or just doing things better at your church to reach out more effectively, many of these sites have excellent free tools and ideas.

I have several notebooks full of ideas on things churches could be doing to share Jesus more effectively with the world, to do a better job in making disciples, to help children grow up and «stick» with Christianity, to make the services more meaningful, to help people connect with God, to develop real and genuine friendships within the church, and on and on.

The idea of community is heightened by that, and individuality is dropped, which I think is a pretty good thing.

There are many things I could say about why it is never a good idea to offer bad Christian alternatives to pop culture, but the most important thing is that you got a GREAT story out of it!

Sadly, her illusion about the Catholic Church and critical thinking will shatter as well: «The great thing about a lot of the atheist and skeptic community is that people talk more critically about ideas and want to see proof provided,» Libresco said.

The first thing pomocon readers should know is that this one of the artworks that best captures or plays upon the idea, sometimes floated by Jim Ceaser hereabouts, that America has an «unwritten Constitution» that can only be described as Christian.

The naive concept of faith as blind assent arose from an equally naive and philosophically disreputable theory of knowledge, according to which one knows a thing best by detaching oneself from its use and setting aside personal biases in order to form an idea that corresponds to the thing.

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»