Sentences with phrase «interesting than things»

Not exact matches

And yet — here's where things get interesting — Canadians are far better off than one would tell looking at our dismal productivity performance over the past 20 years.

And, I would say more interesting things happened in»15 than» 14.»

There are few things more aggravating at work than being kept stagnant with the same routine responsibilities over a long period of time, especially after you've voiced interest in expanding your level of contribution.

Angela says that the thing that predicts success far more than intelligence or a privileged upbringing is GRIT, which she defines as sustaining interest, passion and persistence for a goal over the long term.

One interesting thing about this particle is that it would only be about 30 times heavier than an electron, which is extraordinarily light by today's physics standards.

«If we could solve the problem of getting to space more effectively than we do now, I think we would find ourselves doing more interesting, potentially game - changing things in low Earth orbit.»

(Tip: when pitching this sort of thing, gauge interest first with a quick email, rather than sending some big attached report or image.)

The candidate claimed that by keeping interest rates at the same level, she is «doing political things» and «being more political than Secretary Clinton.»

It is good for the investing public to know that the company is making decisions about things like dividends with the best interests of shareholders in mind, rather than the best interests of the CEO.

Thanks to websites like Kickstarter and EquityNet, it's now easier than ever before to drum up interest around your new idea or innovation and find small loans and pledges that supply the money you need to take things forward.

The insight that we all talk about more boring things in person than online is interesting, but what good is it to you as a business owner?

After so much unexpected loss (savings, houses, discretionary spending), a renewed interest in things that are permanent and reliable is only natural — you might drop $ 800 on a pair handmade John Lobb oxfords, but should the nuclear holocaust hit, those shoes are gonna outlast the cockroaches, which is certainly more than you can say for a trucker cap.

We've done some interesting things to figure out how many job candidates we should be interviewing for each position, who are better interviewers than others and what kind of attributes tend to predict success at Google.

Among other things, banks were required to limit new interest - only lending to be no more than 30 per cent of new mortgage lending.

The important thing to remember is, all other things being equal, a lower student loan interest rate is better than a higher one — but you need to consider all of the terms of the loan including whether the rate is fixed or variable and what your loan repayment options are to ensure you get the best overall deal.

Here's a notion: A governor who was interested in keeping jobs in Wisconsin might have responded immediately and aggressively in early October rather than simply expecting that there was plenty of time for setting up meetings and then, when the meetings did not come together, letting things slide.

Debt can be a terrible thing if not handled properly because it introduces payments that include interest, which is really nothing more than the cost of «renting» money.

Those are big things to balance, but the fact that the government has indicated [it's] interested in the question is a good sign and if [it's] going to talk about more than just length of leave, it could be a significant opportunity to make life better for families.»

WalletHub says online savings accounts are offering interest rates 55 % higher than «the next best thing» — online checking accounts.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

«In our opinion, the only thing that is guaranteed with a bond that has a lower interest rate than the rate of inflation is impoverishment.

These are bigger things than the mortgage interest deduction,» added Shiller.

Considering Europe he says, «the last thing Europe needs now is stability, because stability means stagnation» and he concluded by stating that in his opinion «interest rates were going to go up sooner, further and faster» than widely predicted.

Jumbo loans typically have higher interest rates than their conforming counterparts, all other things being equal.

Research firm, Hearts & Wallets, conducted its Wants & Pricing: What Investors Buy & Competitive Ratings study, which ranked 24 financial firms based on more than 10 different attributes that investors deemed most important, found that Edward Jones outperformed across nearly all attributes, including the top three: «fees clear and understandable»; «unbiased, puts my interests first»; and, «explains things in understandable terms.»

Translation of my translation: The U.S. and Canada are going to enjoy lower interest rates, all things being equal, in the post-crisis world than they did in the pre-crisis world

Accordingly, to keep growth at a non-inflationary level, you can have lower interest rates, all things being equal, than you could before the crisis.

She has also been a strong voice for cooperation among progressive parties rather than for continued competition that mainly serves the interests of the Right (yes, yes, I know the argument that having many choices on your ballot is supposed to be a good thing, but the outcomes of Alberta elections suggest that in fact for progressives, it's just the opposite).

If she had added: «Plus, even though we are currently above the Effective Lower Bound on nominal interest rates (which is probably below 0 %) we are worried that the margin of safety is getting a bit small, and are pleased that fiscal policy is making that margin of safety a bit bigger than it otherwise would be» that would also be an internally consistent thing for the Bank of Canada to say.

As Abdelkarim, Nasser and freshman Saudi oil minister Khalid Al - Falih make their rounds in regional and international conferences this week, their contrasting can and can't - do attitudes makes one thing clear: The Kingdom is far more interested in its long - term economic and geopolitical goals than alleviating its short - term oil profitability problem with and for its OPEC partners.

One thing about debt is that, you will end up paying more than the amount you borrowed as a result of interest and other incidental fees.

The only thing you have wrong is inserting your clear self interest and calling for the government to not intervene, despite the fact that our debt to income ratio is the highest of the G7 countries and higher than it was in the US in 2008 — this is not part of a normal economic cycle and you're being irresponsible.

But the interesting thing is that in the eyes of many investors, Apple's quarterly iPhone sales numbers seem to matter less now than they have for years — at least relative to how much cash Apple is generating and returning to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks.

It inspires people to be better members of society, to bond together to achieve greater things than individuals could accomplish on their own, and to put the interest of society ahead of self interest.

The man who is wholly taken up with the demands of everyday living or whose sole interest is in the outward appearances of things seldom gains more than a glimpse, at best, of this second phase in our sense - perceptions, that in which the world, having entered into us, then withdraws from us and bears us away with it: he can have only a very dim awareness of that aureole, thrilling and inundating our being, through which is disclosed to us at every point of contact the unique essence of the universe.

For me, one of the most interesting things is that our elected political officials consistently received lowers scores than the average citizen.

On an interesting side note, back in my fundie days, I refused to vote for the politicians that supported marriage equality and even wrote a letter to my member to that effect; the only thing I ever felt strongly enough about to actually write rather than be content just signing my name to a petition.

Despite fitful interest in spiritual things, he, by his own account, was lazy, lustful, and more interested in theater than theology when he began studying for ordination at Oxford.

Following St. Francis, for example, means being «more interested in alleviating poverty and helping the afflicted than in staking out doctrinaire positions on things like contraception.»

Few things are more fundamental to societal interest and parental desire than the hope for children and grandchildren, for successor generations that will carry on our communal stories.

Also, being more interested in science and facts than ideology, we don't like to take things at face value based on what some impassioned but unbalanced individuals may think.

This worldview requires a completely different set of myths from the worldview of efficiency and self interest: myths that talk about community, connectedness, giving, sharing, helping, and nurturing — rather than self, things, getting, keeping, forcing, using and conquering.

But when we see good things happen, we ought to be open to asking the question: «Must there not be something at work other than narrow and brutal self - interest and absolutization of one's own group?

This informal and spontaneous indicator of interest suggests that people like us are more interested in the sayings of Jesus than in the things he is said to have done.

99.9 % of «christians» are people more interested in reading the Bible and finding things they may use against others than worshiping a god.

The given example is that laundry - doing robots could access the database to figure out what sort of clothing items are what, and how to fold and iron them differently, but don't worry; robots will surely think of more interesting things to do with the Internet than laundry.

I don't talk about it a lot because rather than exploring belief and how I came to believe it, I generally just get bombarded by both atheists and Christians (primarily, though other theists have bashed me too) for being irrational and stupid and other less interesting insulting things.

Is striving really a better thing than enjoyment, disinterest better than self — interest, kindness better than compulsion?

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

I've been in correspondence with the author --(we're fellow Arrested Development junkies, so we like to exchange favorite quotes over Twitter)-- and the first thing I told him after diving into the book was, «Don't take this the wrong way, man, but this book is WAY more interesting than I thought it would be.»