Sentences with phrase «hard at things»

Not only are you super talented & super sweet but, you obviously work very hard at all things «life» and that deserves all this and more!

We walked back passing by drunk people and laughed hard at things we heard people saying.

Teach kids to be agile, to be curious, to work hard at things not just for grades, but for enjoyment and a sense of mastery.

And her final bit on confidence really got me thinking about how I want to spend my time (spoiler alert: working hard at the things I want to feel confident in).

But you should only work hard at things you actually get some sort of kick out of doing.

Life is a lot more fun if you spend it working hard at things you really enjoy and value.

Not exact matches

At a Tough Mudder event the fundamental value is teamwork: Accomplishing hard things together.

Astrology is: I look at the stars, I think about things real hard, and I say what's going to happen in the future through some part of intuition.

While knowing how to approach business matters, the emotional part can quickly overwhelm you, and knowing what you're getting into before you start is a massive advantage, as at least you won't be as caught off guard when things get hard.

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

Just the sheer scale of it is also challenging, because you've got ta lay out the carbon fiber in exactly the right way on a huge mold, and you've got ta cure that mold at temperature, and then it's... just really hard to make large carbon - fiber structures that can do all of those things and carry incredible loads.

«You need to look at the hard pieces of the puzzle — for example, how is the user really going to interact with this thing.

At the office, this means working harder and longer, and being the first to take a hit if things go south for a spell.

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.

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

«It's hard, because most of us have been getting angry at ourselves for all the things we do wrong all our lives.

Whether it's a new product or something as benign as a store layout, you don't have to look hard to find examples of (largely white) men at tech companies siloing themselves off to develop The Next Big Thing, only to discover a major, avoidable flaw after the fact.

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

It's much harder to use a spokesman or spokeswoman in an online static banner ad, and you can't use them at all in things like search results, Google, or Trip Advisor.

So find ways to spend your days doing things you actually like doing — then you're more likely to work hard at them, and accumulate greater wealth in the process.

«Building products isn't easy, but if you keep working hard, keep throwing things at the wall, you will find a way.»

Meanwhile, some myths (I'm looking at you multitasking) are just so attractive (I really do wish I could do three things at once) that they're hard to let go of.

No organization can thrive in the long run unless it can take a hard look at the way its doing things.

If all of that sounds too hard to manage, you can pay to have someone do it for you, or even some thing: A robo - advisor, which uses a computer algorithm to build and manage your portfolio for a small annual fee, is a good choice at this stage.

It's a bad thing when a company violates its own duties; but it is especially corrosive to work so hard at encouraging other people to violate theirs.

It's easy to look back now and say that we should have done things differently, but it would likely have been a lot harder at that time to get shippers to sign on.

If neither of those things is happening — or at least, not happening enough to make it worthwhile — then it's hard to justify devoting all that time to the project.

That makes Justin what I like to call an «and»: a person who has worked really hard to become highly accomplished at one thing, but also highly accomplished at that, and that, and that.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

«People looked at us like we were buying real estate in Cleveland — it could be a good thing but is hard to understand,» Durban says in an interview at the firm's posh, marble - floored offices on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif..

Managing those two things at the same time is the hard part.

The difficult choices at the poker table are akin to author Ben Horowitz's classic example of executive decision - making in «The Hard Thing About Hard Things.»

The interesting thing about storytelling is that it usually happens at the subconscious level — so it's hard to know if it's working.

The last thing a founder wants is to push hard for a high valuation at the start, only to have the investors write the company off down the road because they don't have much to gain anymore.

Take me: I'm good at working hard and staying focused and delaying gratification and grinding — especially at unusual pursuits, like doing juuust a few too many pushups in one day — but do I actively cultivate a steady stream of things I can't wait to do?

Work hard to have at least two or three things on your calendar every week that you look forward to.

The better you become at one thing, the deeper into your rut you go, and the harder it is to get out of that rut when change comes.

In a true multichannel marketing environment, the hardest thing to identify is what activity the company can stop doing and at what cost to profitability.

It can be really hard to protect your brand, and brand safety and brand awareness really has to be top of mind, so couple of things that you all have been in the news for recently, one was Megyn Kelly just shot a show with Alex Jones, who's very controversial and [CMO Kristin Lemkau sent out a tweet indicating] you were going to pull out of the episode and I wanted to just ask you how you arrived at that decision and why you thought that it was important.

One thing we've found is that the more entrepreneurial - spirited candidates tended to have a harder time focusing on the tasks at hand when working remotely.

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.

But «we keep pushing harder and looking at different choices for things we can sell at the concession stand,» he added.

In order to succeed at this game, you have to have enough mind space available to think about the business, leading, innovation, your team — how could you possibly stay competitive if you take on the additional burden of thinking about how hard things are for you or what additional barriers you have to face because you're a woman or have darker skin?

One of the things I love about the culture at Buffer is the emphasis on working smarter, not harder.

Spoiler alert: you're going to have to try pretty hard to make things work, especially at first.

One of the valuable things I found at Ryerson was a very underutilized budget for the debating team at the school, and with a friend and some other people at school we really strived hard to build [the team] into something, and we did.

New York - based educator Gary McLoughlin, a learning specialist at Manhattanville College, said his younger nieces would «constantly have their phones on the table, and they're always scrolling and checking things, and I found this not only hard to understand but really offensive.»

A private one would have been hard because then we would have had to say «Oh, they are doing this and doing that,» without any real tangible things to point at.

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

There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.