Sentences with phrase «little people do»

When we were looking for a new home I was amazed at how little some people do when they sell.

Of course, Kolbert is absolutely right in her conclusion that, as Rick said to Ilsa, it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Unfortunately, these complicated little people do not come with instruction manuals.

«It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world,» Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine tells Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa Lund during their bittersweet farewell.

At least you grasp the fact that the little people do not deserve to be attacked, only the pigs at the trough like the lawyers who make millions from their firms and get on a school district payroll so they can take down a pension too!

Most parents who are little people don't necessarily care whether their child is a dwarf or not, but caring for a child with dwarfism is more dangerous than caring for a typical child because of the potential health concerns.

Those little people didn't come with a parenting handbook or manual!

When the little person does as told, Willard comes back with, «Sorry — I'm a little short this week.»

So the little people did about as well as the C&L members who aren't on the energy subcommittee, but less well than the subcommittee members.

Not exact matches

But even in the case of 23andMe's home DNA kits, some question the morality of telling a customer he is at high risk for Alzheimer's when there's little the person can currently do about it.

If one person keeps trying to take over and do everything or ends up doing very little, then the partnership will start to unravel and feelings of resentment will fester.

So, you can sort of turn the interview process on its head a little bit and ask the person who's interviewing you, maybe, what they've done, what they've worked on and what they've learned in the process.

It also does little to help the growing income gap or the overall economy, as people working several freelance jobs lack the purchasing power they may have had in more stable positions that disappeared during the recession, she said.

«There is very little you can do to make yourself better - looking, but you can present yourself better,» says the author of Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful.

Tinder is much more geared towards people around you right now, and therefore it's pretty flirtatious, it doesn't lead offline very often, and when it does, it seems to be a little more geared towards hookups.

But Little insists, and this new research supports, that people's personalities can and do change based on circumstances and passion.

I'm sure many of the people requesting meetings with me last week (and didn't notice the email signature) thought I was getting a little ahead of myself — or that Business Insider had some serious cash to burn, and was giving its section editors their own personal lackeys.

Without this context, choosing one color over another doesn't make much sense, and there is very little evidence to support that «orange» will universally make people purchase a product more often than «silver».

This need to let go a little and let your people do their jobs isn't ever easy for anal - retentive entrepreneurs — which I guess may be oxymoronic.

There are already people doing that perfectly, so we thought we would do something a little less conflict based.

This is what it's like to have 12 weeks of leave after having a baby, if you're lucky enough to even have a job that offers it: You begin figuring out child care almost right away; the irony that you barely know how to take care of this little person and now must somehow assess someone else's ability to do so does not escape you.

Mosireen, mostly composed of leftists and liberals who despise the Islamists they blame for derailing the revolution, did not film the Brotherhood protests, and seem to have shown little interest in working with the people who did.

That suggests that, for people who do own Sony, don't dump it yet — the few dollar gains S&P Capital IQ is predicting could give your portfolio a little boost in this still volatile market environment — but new buyers may want to seek out a better performing tech company.

«When people ask me what I do, I try to be a little elusive just to create some interest.

«It requires a little initiative, but you don't want to tell people it's too hard,» he said.

«Unfortunately, I know that people talk about this having a lot to do with these seven countries in particular, but I think the net is cast a little bit wider than we know,» Muhammad added.

One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

The reason why the minimum wage does little for poverty is very simple — there is an incredibly weak correlation between a person's hourly wage and their family's monthly after - tax income.

Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

This person doesn't receive the options immediately, but rather on a vesting schedule — they receive a little bit the first year, more the second year and so on.

Professor Harry Kraemer at the Kellogg School of Management, author of Becoming the Best: Build a World - Class Organization Through Values - Based Leadership, tells me that being a social entrepreneur has very little to do with how much money you have or the number of people who report to you.

«I think the protest stuff gave people a little pause because anytime you did mention his name, it is a little polarizing,» a personnel director told Sando.

There are times when people feel that what they're doing is just a drop in the bucket, that it doesn't matter to the business even if they put in a little extra effort.

At work, there's always a little extra that needs to get done before the holidays, and once you're done clocking your hours, you have to find, buy, and wrap presents for everyone you love and probably even a few people you don't.

Whether it's statistics on how little time people spend focused on a single issue (according to one source, eight seconds) or simply the need to get more done in less time, concise communication wins out.

Secondly, we are here to facilitate the customer's goals, so we are not there just to sweep the floor, we are here to create stories, and do it through people empowerment, and let me go back to it in a little bit.

This person has been doing the job too long with too little empathy and too little passion.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

These traits do little more than foment disengagement among the people whose respect you want to earn.

The unfortunate truth is most people have little to no savings at all — and I don't mean «savings for that vacation to Hawaii,» I mean retirement.

«Any way you look at it, the bank tax is simply a new tax over which the people who pay it — ordinary citizens — will have little or no say over what is done with the money,» said one respondent.

In her song, «Ours,» Swift sings, «So don't you worry your pretty little mind / People throw rocks at things that shine.»

When I stopped by the Horseshoe, he was buying drinks for everyone who showed up — friend, acquaintance or media — urging people to try out a bike or enjoy a complimentary taco and then settling in the back of the club when the music started: a couple of little - known local indie bands played, and Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning — dressed as if he'd just arrived from Wimbledon's centre court — did a DJ set.

«That person, within 10 or 15 minutes, is just doing a little email, and 10 minutes later is building a ship in a bottle because they've lost track of the meeting and it's hard to hear what's going on in the room.»

The beauty of building children into leaders is that it's the little things we do every day that mold them into the people they'll become.

But the last thing you want to do is alienate yourself from people who would have gladly supported you if you only had a little more tact.

I don't know the total or if it's a lot or a little, but I think I'm able to more readily and directly help people who need it and not pay for the commercials and administration of all the duplication that exists across charities.

The people who know him say that little will change at Apple for now — as long as Jobs» health doesn't take a turn for the worse.

McCracken says the health care failure «did bring people a little more back to reality» about how much and how quickly the administration could enact significant change.

It may be better to take the conversation offline and perhaps do a little research on each person and write a tailored invite.