Sentences with word «knew»

DuVernay, who had previously directed two docs, didn't need to mull it over: «I knew I wanted to do something about prisons.»

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

A Wall Street Journal article called into question a great deal of what we thought we knew about Theranos.

I've never been a woman, so I can't speak from experience, but when I was younger the women I knew seemed to fear aging, which they claimed was worse for them.

Gin Lane had never taken equity before, but Harry's had backing from a number of venture capital firms Shine knew well, and one of the Harry's co-founders had helped launch online eyewear company Warby Parker.

AND, this story shows people who never even knew that they were entrepreneurial what they have inside of them.

«I knew when I was eighty that I would never, for example, think about why I walked away from my 1994 Wall Street bonus right in the middle of the year at the worst possible time.

I remember no one knew what they died of, until much later.

No flight attendant even knew this happened except the one that told her to put the bag up,» Gremminger said.

«It took me six months to create a course for Pennsylvania, it took me three months to create [the course for] Florida, and at that point I knew I wanted to go national,» he says.

At the same time, I knew that I might sincerely regret not having participated in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a revolutionizing event.

«I don't think he probably knew how much is involved in being the president.

For years I've heard complaints from merchants, both large and small, who blame Amazon for the destruction of brick - and - mortar retail as we once knew it.

A New York judge last week agreed that CEO Jeff Jacobson had been «hopelessly conflicted» in negotiating a deal that would put him in charge, since he knew the board was looking to replace him.

I've seen how an executive vastly increased her company's valuation by throwing away a $ 2 - billion line of business she knew was undermining her company's brand.

Jack knew he had something.

McConnell had grown over the years into a canny operator, someone who knew what each colleague wanted, needed more of, and feared the most.

Still, Khosrowshahi says that nothing could prepare him for becoming CEO, which he knew would be difficult from day one.

They say Brandi told them it was because Slater «knew too much» about former Fox Chairman Roger Ailes and top - rated host Bill O'Reilly, who have been ousted over the past year because of sexual - harassment accusations.

We already knew what we were doing the second time around.

(«Alexis knew that whatever happened, we'd be in it together.»)

If I were to die, I can say, I know what it's like to be loved and to love.»

I know what you're thinking: If interleaving works better, why do we tend to practice one skill at a time?

Every entrepreneur I know talks about being a first mover.

«No matter the time of day, they were very busy,» he says.

Buffett might have picked the wrong railroad to buy, but he knows a great business when he sees it.

He learned that when it comes to investing in commodity stocks, investors must know that it doesn't matter which ones they pick — like going for a better balance sheet or higher growth — if the underlying commodity is hit.

This year was no different.

«Allie knows that some of the best ideas come from franchisees,» he says.

Department stores like Macy's (m) have been talking changes and new initiatives for years, so next year is the time to put up or well, you know.

However, it's one thing to know the importance of Facebook and another to optimize your own content strategy on Facebook to grow your following.

Culture clashes are a well - known risk when companies merge, and Uber's culture sounds like it's particularly difficult to merge with.

Specifically, I chose to stay open to learning in prison, which I did, in terms of the specific subjects I studied and the stuff I learned about myself that I'd never known.

«Everything that we need to know about anything is available online.

In the 1890s, naturalist Alexander von Humbolt, knowing that the muscles of animals had been made to contract via an electric current, put wires into his own open wounds in an attempt to do the same.

After five years of negotiations, handwringing, and pushback, the biggest trade deal in more than two decades, known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), has now been finalized.

The group of politicians who were allegedly paid by Manafort were known as the Hapsburg Group, a reference to the famous Austrian imperial dynasty.

Physicists could look for evidence of other universes using tools designed to measure ripples in spacetime — also known as primordial gravitational waves — that would have been generated by the universe's initial expansion from the Big Bang.

None of this is to say anyone is justified in behaving like a high school bully; successful gossips know their audience and use their powers for good.

The depiction of the actress also features her beauty mark and raised right eyebrow — a characteristic for which she was known, according to her IMDB page.

Secret from a recruiter: «Know something about IBM's strategy and ensure it is aligned with your passion.

For me, I know when I work best is in the morning.

I know it.

On Wednesday, Redstone had released a statement saying he no longer trusted the CEO of his company or the board with Viacom's future.

No matter how earnest your intentions, respond to online reviews - good or negative - online.

«We know a lot more about you through your phone than a desktop,» says Wojcicki.

And not only do you need to know how to deal with things on the road — tricks to get the horse to drink while traveling and help avoid colic, how to treat or bandage a wound if necessary — you also need to know the basics behind driving carefully while towing a live animal.

In addition, the requirement for American travellers to carry passports to re-enter the U.S. may no longer be the barrier to cross-border traffic that it used to be, he said.

As Infibeam has done, use what you know and whom you know, but put it all together in a different way.

Maintenance contracts drive service calls, which drive customer relationships, which drive sales of new systems, since it's a lot easier to sell a $ 300 maintenance contract than it is to sell an $ 8,000 system — and when that time comes he's no longer «selling a new system» to a cold - call customer, he's «replacing outdated and inefficient systems» for a current customer.