Sentences with phrase «hours talking at»

We preach how «student - centered» we want the classroom to be, yet we spend hours talking at teachers and call this «professional learning.»

«The people who tend to do well at Diplomacy are those who spend many hours talking at great length to put across their position and the tactical disadvantages and advantages of certain actions,» the SpAd explains.

Not exact matches

Baehr's mentor, Walter Hailey, whose insurance company Lone Star Life Insurance went on to become a Kmart insurance company, used to take an hour - long walk at 5 a.m. every morning with a group of close friends to talk about ideas, successes and failures.

In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he talked about his injury.

What followed was an amazing episode for humanity; enemies who were just hours ago slaughtering each other at a level unseen in human history, were talking, singing, dancing, and eating together as if they were friends.

My team has made some pivotal decisions in informal, unstructured settings — talking over coffee or spending hours at a whiteboard.

«After that I actually went to San Francisco and met him at a hotel, and we talked for about three hours.

But so are the benefits: proximity to high - level execs, who drop in for pep talks and training sessions (founder Marc Benioff did not appear the week I was there, but his aura was everywhere); free run of the City by the Bay after hours; and the glow, the buzz, the grace that imbue Salesforce's vibrant headquarters in San Francisco's SoMa district, reminding initiates at every turn that they're part of something special.

(Female Founder Office Hours is a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.)

Maybe you just wasted an hour at home talking yourself into actually going to the blasted party, or perhaps it's simple math — the later you go the less time you have to spend there.

The 4 Hour Workweek author and entrepreneur talks about a range of topics, including how you can become as good as possible at a variety of skills without any prior experience.

In the talk, which lasts a little over an hour, Jobs shares a number of stories from his time at Apple and NeXT (the startup he founded after leaving Apple), along with the lessons learned through both good times and bad.

I make it a habit to research each mentor I talk to for at least an hour before our conversation so that our conversation feels smooth and practiced.

When I ask him to talk about what he does with the 23 hours a day in which he doesn't work, Frind struggles to answer and then looks helplessly at Kanciar.

At the beginning, one great advantage we had was talking about work after hours.

Along with other female venture capital partners, Lee is launching Female Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.

European Union leaders reached agreement on the first ever cut in their common budget on Friday after 24 hours of talks, seeking to placate millions at home struggling through government cutbacks and recession.

No email after 7 p.m. or on weekends: Last year, Mroueh was talking with an employee who felt she had no life because she was responding to emails at all hours.

I hated being stuck in one place for eight hours at a time, so we created a bar where upper - class passengers could meet and talk during the flight.

We spent over an hour discussing women in the workplace — and talking about the review that's underway by Eric Holder and Tammy Albarran into diversity and inclusion at Uber.

When finally, I sat down and started talking, they basically tallied up the hours I spent and gave a choice to get equity at current $ 3 mil valuation or get full cash for my time or blend of both cash / equity.

I can't tell you how many thousands of hours I have spent, over the years, thinking about, reading about, and talking about how to be a consistently successful investor; but I can tell you this: I'm still working at it.

I can't imagine wanting to be «talked at» in my last hours on earth.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

But this woman was one of the people they talked about, and the fact that she showed up at noon was a sure sign that she was not welcome at their morning social hour.

Indeed, in any situation, like the front line trenches at the zero hour, when courage is an absolute necessity and every man with all his heart is ardently desiring all of it that he can get, the one intolerable thing would be to talk about it.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Equipped with a powerful battery at 1000 mAh, which allows the unit to operate up to 600 hours of standby time and up to 11.5 in the talk mode.For the communication has to offer: Web - browser, EDGE, WiFi, stereo Bluetooth, and, of course, USB - port.

Today I ran into a neighbor at Home Depot and we talked for an hour and one half.

I talked that day to what seemed like 500 people in a 15 - hour period ending at 11:30 p.m..

We'd just come from many hours of talks, about faith and family life, delivered by cardinals and lay experts at the World Meeting of Families, in Philadelphia.

Well, it looks like this joker professor of religion does not know what he was talking about when he wrote this piece as the Muslims decry burial at see except when one dies on the sea and it is impractical to get the body to land within 24 hours.

I've been at it here tonight for several hours already, and don't know that I have much steam left, so if you want to talk, you better get it in quick, and don't make me think too hard

Let's just talk about this bread: My gurl Tracy over at Shutterbean made it a while ago and I made it almost immediately with jalapeños and then ate it all in like an hour so it never made it here.

Then I was hanging out with this boy and would be up until like 2 every night (totally PG we would sit talking in our cars for hours after our friends left whatever we were doing) and started drinking iced coffee at work everyday.

I might have the tiniest hunch what it is actually, because we both food blog so much and I am terrible at doing that talking about myself, blowing my own trumpet thing too, and I've been sitting at my desk for hours at a time trying to do the same thing too, recently!

It's weird thinking that we'll never walk each other home late at night and stop halfway between our houses and somehow manage to talk for an hour until one of our parents comes outside to look for us.

«Talking to parents, I realized they are struggling to feed their children healthy meals they will actually eat and don't require hours in the kitchen after a long day at work.

A Santa Rosa resident, Ash co-hosts a weekly local food and wine radio talk show, The Good Food Hour, and teaches cooking classes at various schools.

I spend at least an hour with my partner, Rich, talking about his day, any important or fun issues and planning the week at hand.

The Regal, located at 163 Hope St, is serving its diner - esq menu during all hours of the night - and were talking really late - until 4:00 am on Fridays and Saturdays (and 2:00 am Tuesday — Thursday).

Levain & Shirley Sheena Otto, Executive Baker at Il Buco Alimentari in NYC: «Our livelihood depends on this fermenting puddle of flour and water, and you find yourself talking to it in the wee hours of the morning because it's the only other thing awake at that time, and... well...»

At 10:30 p.m. Condon goes to Heneghan's room to talk, and after four hours the two have hammered out a deal.

If you want to get really into the weeds, here's nearly an hour of Saban talking defensive back play at a coaches clinic sometime around 20 years ago:

I didn't record the game and I'm only bringing this up (a) to hopefully placate my suspicion that my memory gets worse by the hour, and (b) because it seemed like Brown et al. talked about learning at halftime that Nerlens wouldn't be a go.

About a week after that initial phone conversation, they had a four - hour lunch at Aldo's, a Sacramento restaurant, and the talk turned to specifics.

They stay at the bar for like four hours, not talking to anyone.

If you want to stop tanking in baseball — we're talking in the NBA sense, where teams intentionally set themselves up to lose, allowing them better odds at a top draft pick — the solution is simple: Make it so that the MLB Draft is an enigmatic mess, where thousands and thousands of working hours from scouts and executives lead to incorrect decisions to draft players who provide absolutely no value to their new franchise.

«George would always take the extra 45 minutes or hour to talk to a parent about a student's progress,» said Randy Enos, a former school board president and assistant principal at El Cerrito.

Though the under is the favorite at -135, I believe that Trump's lengthy speech may cause Clinton to drag her speech out or add some extra talking points so she can finish up around the one hour mark.