Sentences with phrase «less than things»

For example, «We are in humanity as a horizon of Being, because the horizon is what surrounds us, no less than the things....

We all love free stuff, but we tend to value it less than the things we pay a lot for.

Whether it's $ 5,000 or $ 50,000 matters less than things like your ability to manage a growing operation.

How often does something get better and end up costing the same or less than the thing it replaced?

Not exact matches

The statements provide less detail than would an official record of the policy meeting, but they may accomplish the same thing — so long as the governor continues to be forthcoming.

Writer James Clear suggests starting small, choosing one thing to improve incrementally every day, and committing to not pushing off things that take less than two minutes to do, such as washing the dishes after a meal or eating a piece of fruit to work toward the goal of eating healthier.

Here's one from Getting Things Done: when a task takes less than two minutes, don't schedule it, don't set it aside for later, don't set a reminder — just take care of it.

So with less than a second to spare to get someone on your side, what are some things you can to develop that valuable trust?

The best part: the whole thing cost less than a traditional TV ad (at least according to the company).

One thing that remains to be seen is how local regulators will respond, especially in cities like New York where it's illegal to rent out one's full unit in an apartment building on Airbnb for less than 30 days.

Research conducted at Stanford University confirms that multitasking is less productive than doing a single thing at a time.

Running a business entails offsetting unnecessary costs - and the cost of maintaining something that works is much less than the cost of replacing the entire thing.

Mattrick was supposed to turn things around, but Zynga's stock is nearly the same as when he started and less than a third of the price of its 2011 initial public offering, $ 10.

If these are the things founders generally worry about less than they should, what areas of the business usually take up more attention than they really warrant?

Being forced to do many, many things inevitably results in at least some of those efforts being less than half - assed.

The hard work is done — all that remains is to bring the cost of the meat down to less than the real thing, which may not be that hard to do if the demand for and cost of beef keeps skyrocketing, especially in China.

The thing that'll turn off an investor quicker than a cold shower is a business that either has a salable product but has made no effort to sell it, or they've discovered that the market potential for the product is far less than anticipated.

But — as Recode can now report, because we still do that quaint journalism thing — is a very heady group of less than a dozen, comprising most of the key players in the sector.

Sometimes they turn out to be less dangerous than the sure thing.

When you're honest with yourself about all five of these things, you're automatically dealing with the tippy - top of the pyramid — less than 1 percent.

Admitting that you're already likely doing less than optimal (perhaps even straight up dumb) things and trying to eliminate them of course takes a degree of intellectual humility.

Meantime, although your credit may be less - than - stellar, your business might have other things going for it.

A great thing to do is to actually calculate the cost of your time, which will help you figure out if you can pay someone to do something for less than your hourly rate.

The swim workout was the hardest physical thing I've ever done, and I once rode a 100 - mile Gran Fondo, with four mountains and 11,000 total feet of climbing, less than five months after I had a heart attack.

The other thing is that, again, much of the above also applies to BlueBuds X. Jaybird's officially discontinued those, but you can still find them on Amazon for less than the X2.

In particular, one Uber executive was outed for positing that the company ought to start investigating the personal life of journalists who were saying less than complimentary things about the company.

To further complicate things, my client already thought that my value was less than half of what it should be.

All of this, and the whole thing still retails for less than $ 80.

In an industry characterized by large retainer fees and less - than - scientific outcome measurement and subjectivity, be careful and cautious: Here are five things to look for when assessing which PR agency to hire:

If there's one thing readers notice less than the swimsuits in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, it's the parkas.

But the best thing to do is to get to the point quickly, so as to minimize the pain inflicted on those receiving the (less - than - desirable) update.

The visionary thing, in other words, is way less important than other «things.»

I was floored — the whole thing was created in less than eight hours.

For example, if a team is working on coming up with new product ideas, they could be given a variety of constraints to work with like «only items made from recycled materials» or «only things that weigh less than a pillow.»

But here's the thing: Like them, you probably didn't launch a business to make less money than you did at your last job.

If you have a burning desire to accomplish great things and become wildly successful, you've got less competition than ever before.

It's better to track things as you go along in your day, rather than doing it all at the end of the day (some of the data will be less accurate).

Research conducted at Stanford University found that multitasking is less productive than doing a single thing at a time.

The under the hood things we're investing in will ultimately be channeled toward driving better user experience, whether it's approving a new line of credit in less than 10 minutes or being able to fund invoices and have money in the bank within four hours.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

Less - than - stellar leaders become consumed by the entrancement of the new thing and are hypnotized into dropping, aborting, or prematurely birthing what they're currently working on in order to get their hands on that shiny new project — all, of course, accompanied by an intellectually robust post-rationalization.»

Though there are less kind things mentioned about the hotels than the sushi restaurants.

There are few things that suggest grandiose thinking less than the everyday problem of buffering.

The trick is that if things turn out better than expected — the restructuring proves less expensive than predicted, or the lawsuit gets settled on favourable terms — the company can release the reserves into earnings, providing a one - time boost to financial results.

Researchers compared students» responses to those from the 1980s on things like «I have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me» and «I try to understand my friends by imagining how things look from their perspective.»

This is a far less volatile way of doing things than using exchange rates: for example, the price of a hamburger doesn't jump 27 % simply because of currency fluctuations.

Less than two years ago, the company was riding high, experiencing explosive growth, but things peaked in the summer of 2013, when it raised $ 150 million in funding at a valuation of $ 1 billion.

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

It would be one thing if Girlfriend Collective just made my favorite pair of flattering leggings, but they make them for much less than my other go - to pairs at $ 68 for a pair of classic high - rise (+ $ 7 shipping now, versus $ 20 two years ago).

The actor, best known for playing Luke Skywalker, was less than amused by the video Pai released last week, in which he dressed up as Santa and explained the «seven things you can still do on the Internet after net neutrality.»