Sentences with phrase «like people tried»

It seems like people tried hard working on making the profile personalized.

Like a person trying to communicate with a bug, we may not be able to comprehend what aliens are at all.

(I spend hours trying fonts on titles, like some people try on clothes.)

My Russian dwarf hamster won't walk and will crawl with its head tilted almost like a person trying to hear through a door and its little face looks like it's in pain (it has been dropped a few times) but it was fine this afternoon and there are no vets near our area what do I do???

I was like a person trying to believe in God with no evidence of God.

Or like people trying to hire the LA Times to handle their murder defense because it covered the OJ Simpson trial.

The company perkily says it doesn't like people trying to guess how many deals it's sold «for the same reason you probably wouldn't like if people tried to guess your weight all day.»

Not exact matches

Some people actually try to do deliberative things whilst sleeping, like turning on the lights in a room.

Again, people don't like to think about insurance, so we try not to ask questions you don't need to be asked.

«I think the assumption is we were trying to create a game machine and a tablet and really what we were trying to do was create a game system that gave you tablet - like functionality for controlling that system and give you two screens that would allow different people in the living room to play in different ways.

I'm really just like the millions of people out there who are simply trying to build stamina to get them through the work week.»

He tried something he calls «meshing» — meetings that brought together people who he thought should be connected in the workplace, but weren't, like the two supervisors who separately oversaw the company's call centres in Cambridge and the Dominican Republic.

Rather than embrace the attributes that people liked about them, they tried to copy attributes and designs that people liked about their competitors» products.

«I was trying to explain, in response to a question about the election, that my limited understanding was that the President talked to a portion of America like an accessible person they could relate to, as he was NOT a politician.»

Neville tells me that in the hundreds of cases of consulting he does, one of the funniest patterns he see is people trying to create a company tagline that sounds like a big company.

«Any attempt to turn off the flows of capital and people around the world will be like trying to divert a river into lakes and creeks,» said Xi.

It's been found that «86 percent of people who spend cash on luxuries like expensive cars, jewelry, and electronics are non-millionaires trying to act the part by purchasing luxury brands.»

Millions of people flooded HealthCare.gov on its first day and many of them were met with disappointing messages like, «please try again later» and «please wait» instead of «apply now.»

«That doesn't mean you shouldn't work on yourself and develop yourself and learn to make people more comfortable, but at a certain point it's like, what are you trying to accomplish?»

By comparison, marketing research tools like focus groups can be expensive and may not target the right people, while market questionnaires or surveys generally do not give potential customers a chance to try the product.

The biggest piece of advice I would give a young person is to try to spend time with someone who has had a career like the one that you want, and then do your best to figure out how they do what they do.

But keep in mind that the people you're speaking with will use their brief meetings with you to try to guess what it would be like to have you around for eight hours a day or more.

«Try to lend a warm, human tone to your project descriptions and videos, almost in a way that makes people feel like they are talking with you,» he says.

Joining alumni groups and professional organizations, wearing golf course polo shirts or college sweatshirts, putting a sticker with initials like «HH» on your car to announce to the world you summer at Hilton Head Island... many people try hard to show — if only to themselves — that they belong.

«One thing I learned: If you don't respond to something controversial like this immediately, you lose the audience and the attention of the people you are trying to reach,» Opiah says.

That last step is the most important, but also one of the most challenging because «when you try to sample a large population of people who you already know have a certain disease, like cancer, it's really difficult to pinpoint all the different biomarkers that will make you fairly sure of the person's illness is detected regardless of environmental conditions,» he says.

«One of the hardest things when you're trying to effect change is that — people like this gentleman — are right!

The thought doesn't even occur to them because they know how unlikeable people are who try too hard to get others to like them.

If you can't directly survey the people you are trying to reach, you can gain insight into their language online: Read the same publications or blogs they do; listen in on conversations on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn; and use keyword research tools (like Google AdWords or Keyword Discovery) to see exactly what terms people are using in searches.

Most people trying to explain blockchains like to compare it to a ledger.

By diversifying well - known brands, breweries are trying to entice everyone from hard - drinking partiers to palette - pondering craft nerds to people who don't even like beer.

«I'm trying to encourage people to not think about the gig economy like driving for Uber or working part - time because they need to.»

[I try to] treat people like they want to be treated.

«Mad Money Manifesto» by Jim Cramer: For years I have been trying to help people like you, who own stocks and feel like they're on the outside looking in, become better investors.

Like most people who spend too little time asleep and too much time trying to stay focused on work, I tend to drink a fair amount of coffee.

I can't stand when I get an email from someone trying to pitch me and it looks like it's a standard email they sent to 20 people hoping to get a response from one.

Some people have actively tried to counter it by collecting Facebook friends with opposing viewpoints and liking pages that don't interest them.

But let's remember, they're people trying to find their way, just like us.

I try to make sure the perspectives I'm reading are not coming from people like myself.

«I put air quotes around that phrase because whenever people say it, I feel like they're trying real hard to put the stock market in the context of some sort of game,» the «Mad Money» host said on Tuesday.

«One thing I always look at when I'm trying to build products is that people just like to use beautiful things, so keep it as dead simple as possible and easy to understand.»

We can create opportunities and competitions for young people (like the McDonald's All - American All - Star Games) that allow entrepreneurs to try — and fail or succeed — in low - risk situations, when their entire families» life savings aren't on the line.

«We're trying to bring out products that appeal to a wide range of people who like the idea of the West,» he says.

Startups like Instacart and TaskRabbit have recently cut large numbers of employees and undergone strategic realignments, as they try to figure out crucial details such as how much to pay people and what profit margins to expect.

Not realizing how weird that interaction must've been for him, I explained my ritual for every flight: during takeoff I close my eyes and try to imagine what it felt like to be the first person to fly.

«What we're trying to do with that is really give people this tangible sense of what their day - to - day will look like and how they will make a difference,» she says.

But if you'd like to get replies to your emails a little more often — whether they're one - on - one messages to colleagues or marketing messages that you're sending to thousands of people — you might give this little trick a try.

People will try it, and if they like it, they'll switch.

You might like to try out short - term job swaps as well, as people working in a role that's new to them can often see potential problems or new solutions that those there day in and day out just don't notice.

«Many people think if you're going to try to find a new particle you need to build giant enormous collider like the Large Hadron Collider because you have to get lots of energy and smash particles together very fast,» Feng said.