Sentences with phrase «making anything more»

I understand that some think that more markets mean more opportunity, and on its face that would make sense, but if the odds are really about 99 % against you making anything more than a few sales or ever turning a profit, the number of markets you still aren't selling in will be slim consolation.

Fans of Redford and Fonda will like this more than most, and those who love the country music flair, but it's hard not to be just a little disappointed that such fine actors, a nice script and a skillful director couldn't quite coalesce into making this anything more than an amiable way to spend two hours.

As for our chances of making anything more complex, Frank Close, a particle physicist at the University of Oxford, is pessimistic, saying it will take a billion years, give or take.

While Trump does not seem to be interested in making it anything more than a campaign talking point, he struck a nerve, as did Bernie Sanders with his similar rhetoric.

But I wasn't really in the mood for cashew cheese, or making anything more complicated than scooping a filling into a date.

I don't think the people involved with it directly are making anything more of it than this.

I say making anything more than $ 200,000 doesn't make you much happier.

All of the technology in the world can't make us anything more than human, but understanding how our own brains work can give us an advantage over other mere mortals.

Both understood that political agreements — such as creating corporations — make anything more than subsistence economies possible.

(no amount of motivation will get me to make anything more complicated than oatmeal for breakfast on a weekday haha...)

This sourdough puff pastry recipe is a bit rough, and nothing I recommend if you're planning to make anything more ambitious.

To make anything more out of it than that is a real stretch.»

Unfortunately Travis lacks the comedic skill and humanistic insight to make this anything more than Judd Apatow lite.

Joey King, who plays John's daughter Emily, does a fine job, but the attempts to make her anything more than a glorified hostage fall a bit flat (except for a hilariously on - the - nose bit where Emily saves the White House by performing her flag routine with the White House's flag on the lawn to wave off an airstrike; it's so dumb and goofy that it just lands on charming).

However, writer - director Matthew Robbins (Dragonslayer, Batteries Not Included) does little to make this anything more than a modest adventure, with more needed in the way of plot developments and better characterizations.

In his defense, his performance requires little skill to deliver, but little effort is put forward to make anything more out of it.

Some attempt was made to interconnect the multiple story lines and I do appreciate the struggle to show intimacy in the mess of Los Angeles... just too many obvious skits and stereotypes to make this anything more than a half - hearted effort by all involved.

The film does manage to evoke a certain charm in its own goofy way, similar to the way Adam Sandler films do, but the film lacks the intelligence and screenwriting to make it anything more than mildly amusing fare.

Student motivation: «For kids, social connectedness is a big motivator and makes anything more interesting,» explains Whyville creator Jim Bower.

Yesterday (13th November) Hachette Book Group in the US and Amazon reached new terms, with Weldon saying he wasn't sure the deal made anything more stable as the terms were unknown.

I can give you my first hand experience on each one, and I can honestly say that there is nothing I have tried that made me anything more than $ 100 on my first month especially when you are starting from ground zero.

Rape and other sexual assaults are notoriously underreported, making it difficult to make anything more specific than broad warnings as you would hear about anywhere else.

That being said, it will be hard to make anything more than educated guesses as to what this game will look like.

It makes anything more than basic email reading difficult.

Not exact matches

«What has upset business owners more than anything are the comparisons made between the income of small business owners and that of employees,» Dan Kelly, the federation's president, said in an op - ed published at the Huffington Post on Aug. 25.

More than anything else, 2015 was the year the «blockchain» made its way into the zeitgeist.

You're not going to please everyone but in today's B2C world where people can easily complain about anything they want and make their complaints public to the world you want to shoot for an 80 % approval rating - or four stars on Yelp, whichever makes more sense.

Maybe holding meetings for meetings» sake makes the miserable managers feel more productive, but they don't do much of anything for the business.

With all these tools at their fingertips, what is needed more than anything is the political will to make tough choices states will need to make.

I tend to do conventional sets and reps, usually in a pyramid fashion (going from less weight / more reps to higher weight / fewer reps.) But your body adapts to anything, and making progress gets tougher.

Researchers at the frontier of science are making possible technologies likely to change civilization more than anything since electricity.

Is there anything else WA is able to do to make Perth and surroundings a little more interesting besides building shopping centres?

That «suggests that a long - term character change could be afoot, which makes me suspicious of anything more than a bounce for now,» he added in comments to CNBC.

The company is making money in an interesting way — the app is free, as are the first 25 accounts set up, but anything more will cost you.

Serious Materials has also pumped dollars into improving technology that layers glass, coated film, and inert gas to make windows more energy efficient than almost anything else on the market.

Doing something — doing anything — that most other people can not or will not do will make you prouder, more fulfilled, and a lot happier.

Anything within their legal rights will be made transparent, only keeping confidential any Amazon information (their more secretive parent company) that is considered proprietary, as well as complying with the appropriate employee data guidelines.

And, more than anything, what made me an outcast was that I always thought entrepreneurship meant providing a product or service someone was willing to pay money for.

The new tariffs will make cars, appliances, and anything else that uses steel and aluminum more expensive.

«Anything we do to essentially make it more difficult for people, for talent, to come here, will impoverish us,» says Yale's Jensen.

But more than anything, a successful brand ambassador relationship has to make sense in the mind of customers.

It makes the country more efficient because there are users, consumers, suppliers, and channels developed on the Internet, which is much more efficient than anything that could be developed offline.

It's a PR nightmare that makes the company look weak and diminishes its brand far more than anything the hackers leaked.

Memrise, if you're not already familiar with it, is an amazing tool to help people learn anything from science facts to a foreign language more quickly using fun associations to make new words or ideas stick (I've used it personally and absolutely endorse it for memorizing new vocabulary especially).

Herein lies the secret of the testimonial: They have no discernable vested interest in what decision you make, so they are inherently more trustworthy than anything that comes from the mouth of a salesperson.

It was more of me making things up out of not knowing anything.

For some users, the departure of Taylor seemed to sum up a lot of these changes: Poor communication from the site's management, a move that seemed to indicate a lack of respect for the work that moderators and other users do, and suggestions that her firing might have been triggered by her refusal to do certain things that would make the Ask Me Anything feature more commercial.

It's like anything else, the more practice employees get at making decisions, the better decisions they will make.

If you suspect that your boss will agree to just about anything, you'll need to motivate yourself to work harder and become more discerning in your decision - making.

And he wants more than anything for one — or several — of those hits to make a real impact on climate change.