The Stanford professor knows the academic research, but many of his insights are drawn from
the hundreds of conversations he has had with business leaders, including some of Silicon Valley's brightest stars.
Over the past few years, and from
the hundreds of conversations I have had with authors at book fairs, trade shows, and conferences, I've found that there are six things that successful authors do to get published.
Reading his analysis of causes, there is an eerie resonance with
the hundreds of conversations I have had over the last two and a half years with those who had fled from lawyers (or just can not afford them) and are representing themselves.
Not exact matches
Over the last few years, I
've had hundreds of conversations with founders who
have noticed that we are frequently in the press.
The letter
has taken on a life
of its own, inspiring
hundreds of people to adapt it to spark
conversation in their own families.
As our
conversation wraps up, Polman emphasizes again that his economic development goals will certainly boost Unilever's fortunes too, especially since the company depends on
hundreds of millions
of people
having enough money to buy staple items.
This post is for the literally
hundreds of people I
've had this
conversation with and the countless others who will read it.
After all, look at your inbox, if you
have one — there are likely dozens
of conversations, perhaps with
hundreds of people.
With
hundreds or even thousands
of social media accounts to manage and millions
of social
conversations to monitor, social media marketing
has become increasingly complicated and time - consuming.
As I
have had hundreds of personal and online
conversations about the unforgivable sin over the years, I find that lots
of people
have some sort
of idea about what constitutes blasphemous thoughts or actions, but which are not really blasphemous at all.
Bewes recalls a
conversation between Rico Tice, a colleague at All Souls and Tedd Smith, who is pianist with Billy Graham worldwide and
had been involved with scores
of missions «Tedd, you
've been with Billy, you
have seen the
hundreds of thousands who
have come forward.
Allusion is actually quite common; in ordinary speech and
conversation, we can not do without it, for if everything mentioned were immediately glossed, a single page
of text
would stretch into
hundreds of pages and assertion
would be forever deferred.
That's why, for over 55 years, Bounty
has been visiting
hundreds of maternity wards all over the UK, offering a friendly smile, warm
conversation, wonderful Bounty pack and beautiful baby portraits.
That's why, for over 55 years, Bounty
has been visiting
hundreds of maternity wards all over the UK, offering a friendly smile, warm
conversation and a wonderful Bounty pack.
Every day
hundreds, thousands, millions
of people are
having public
conversations debating everything from Justin Bieber's haircut to what «healthy school food» really means.
Hundreds of millions
of dollars in bilateral aid
have been Addis» reward for this alliance; no wonder Meles once called the war «something
of a godsend» in a
conversation with Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter.
During the government's three week case, the jury
has heard from roughly a dozen witnesses, dozens
of wiretapped phone
conversations and read
hundreds of email exchanges.
Just try sustaining a meaningful
conversation while keeping track
of the number
of times you and your partner
have each used the words you, I, from, a or the — just a handful
of the
hundreds of function words
Neuroscientists who want to follow the nervous system's cellular
conversations will soon
have access to easy - to - use technology that simultaneously monitors neural activity at
hundreds of different...
Since we
have inspired
hundreds of thousands
of marriages we consider ourselves experts in the online dating
conversation.
The employees at The League will go through
hundreds of social media profiles to ensure that the person you
would be most interested in
having a
conversation with is real.
Typically, chat rooms will
have a maximum limit
of how many members are in the chat, so you won't
have to struggle through
hundreds of people carrying a
conversation at once.
Conversations are easy to strike up with regularity and it's easy to discover that you
have strong feelings for someone who lives
hundreds or thousands
of miles away from you!
From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the
conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite
of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino
has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades
of film history and
hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.
But I
've seen
hundreds of scenes in cars with people talking in the front seat while characters in the back seat are temporarily ignored, and I can never remember being so aware
of a separate
conversation happening offscreen.
Foundations
have enough money to dominate the
conversation of a few
hundred people engaged in policy research and advocacy, but they don't
have enough resources to achieve enduring policy change without backing policies that generate their own constituency.
And, like me, you
have probably
had this same
conversation dozens, maybe
hundreds,
of times.
AP: This process
has enabled me to
have hundreds of conversations with teachers around the state, to get some real insights into the conditions that are faced by our students and teachers on a daily basis, in very grounded, concrete ways.
I
have been a part
of literally
hundreds (if not thousands)
of post-conference
conversations.
In examining how we assign students to schools, board members and I also
had a laser - like focus over 18 months to engage our community in
hundreds of conversations, in groups, in people's driveways, at the supermarket, about whether we were ok that more than 70 schools in the district
had a high poverty rate.
For exhibitors, that means the SEMA Show is the place to showcase their best new ideas and innovations, an investment in time and energy that generates the opportunity to
have face - to - face
conversations with
hundreds of potential customers in just four days.
In fact, I
had hundreds of conversations about this a few weeks ago during the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Over the years, I
have had hundreds of conversations with authors and there are three phrases I sometimes hear that give me pause.
I sent like a
hundred, 120 queries out to agents, and I
had some
conversations on the phone, and some
of them went pretty well.
They
've worked on
hundreds of books, magazines, etc. including the multiple - bestseller
Conversations with Gods series (which even now
has a 3,000 rank in Amazon Books).
Or when she began
having extended
conversations with people from Florida to Pennsylvania to Maine who
have festooned their homes with
hundreds of cat collectibles.
Levels can
have hundreds of characters on screen, each with their own detail and unique quality, with some even holding long
conversations that the player can eavesdrop in on.
Since we met, sound
has played an enormous role in the
conversations, performances, recordings, and installations we
have worked on together, but most importantly, it's what we
have geeked out on together in
hundreds of conversations like this one.
«do it» (also consistently written in lowercase) is conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist in
conversation with Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier and since 1993
hundreds of artist
have been invited to submit artists» instructions.
AM I STILL EMPLOYED: JOBS, JOYS, AND WHAT DO YOU DO LECTURE AND
CONVERSATION Head
of Research, Dubai Future Foundation Jessica Bland with Shumon Basar For
hundreds of years, new waves
of technology
have motivated fresh fears
of automation
of human labour.
*** Mark Murphy
has curated thematic art exhibitions celebrating the narrative tradition since 1998 and
has worked with
hundreds of artists
of our time including EMIT by Trenton Doyle Hancock at the Ringling Museum, Dialogue, the Fine Art
of Conversation at the Santa Monica Museum
of Art, In the Land
of Retinal Delights at the Laguna Art Museum, and Behind Photographs featuring Tim Mantoani at the Museum
of Contemporary Art, La Jolla to name a few.
At the New Museum, Cornell
has organized over fifty performances, screenings, and
conversations and commissioned over one
hundred works in a variety
of mediums, including sculpture, painting, photography, installation, and video, as well as browser - based work and virtual reality.
In that time they
have had hundreds of conversations about the art
of painting and the history
of the avant - garde,
conversations that often touch on considerations
of moral philosophy and general cultural history — the macro in the micro.
BOSTON — Senator John Kerry announced that the United States Senate
has passed his resolution to strengthen tuna
conversation measures that
would protect the livelihood
of hundreds of Massachusetts, and New England, fishermen.
WRI
has been part
of an international consortium
of think tanks and universities called Agreement for Climate Transformation 2015 (ACT 2015) which, after
hundreds of conversations with stakeholders and detailed research,
has put forward what an effective agreement could look like.
That could be a
conversation of its own, no doubt, but the mainstream view is very solidly established — it
has, after all, been about two
hundred years in the building, if you start with the work
of William Charles Wells:
«In the past, we
've paid
hundreds of dollars just to ask these questions, so it was incredible being able to hone and prioritize the
conversations we were
having with our lawyers, and save a lot
of money as a result.»
Having said that, after
hundreds of conversations with folks who dealt with them, it's our opinion they train their agents to not disclose this information up front.
Since the launch
of the Actions on Google platform last December,
hundreds of apps or
conversation actions
have been made available like a bird sound trainer and identifier detector, eldercare services, bus or train times in major cities, and an action that reads Bible passages based on your mood.
They see a lot
of resumes and
have hundreds of conversations with hiring managers.