Sentences with phrase «much talked up»

Very much talked up the idea of having fun while playing football, but while being obsessed with improving and preparing.

Not exact matches

All this being said, there is still obviously such a thing as too much awkwardness, and most of us will continue, despite Dahl's pep talks for the self - conscious, to strive to behave stupidly in public as little as possible She very much understands that impulse and offers many tips she dug up speaking to researchers for the book, including:

Her contract with Fox comes up for renewal next year (she reportedly makes more than $ 6 million a year at Fox), and there has been much talk about the opportunities that might await her.

The talks between the U.K. and Europe are taking up too much time and the British negotiating side needs to step up the pace, a top EU official told CNBC Saturday.

In December, talking up her belief in bitcoin, Wood floated another provocative idea, saying the world's biggest cryptocurrency is «so much bigger an idea than even Apple, which is a pretty big idea.»

«We smoked way too much pot,» says Newman, «stayed up too late at night, and talked about how to change the world.

«We smoked way too much pot, stayed up too late at night, and talked about how to change the world,» Newman says.

The ride - hailing company is in exclusive talks to line up funding from four investors, but a deal, which could reach as much as $ 12 billion, hangs on the outcome of a courtroom brawl between Travis Kalanick and Benchmark.

As much as people talk up the Adidas rivalry with Nike, it has been Under Armour's streak of a rise that has execs in Herzogenaurach scared.

Contact with women and ethnic minorities lessens unconscious bias, but since neither group is represented much in the upper echelons of business, it can be hard for executives to get that exposure — something not helped by the fact that many white, male higher - ups feel they don't know how to talk to younger women or minorities.

«When I say I am accountable, I am talking about the actions the board took with my recommendation to take back much of my stock - based compensation, which make up much of my compensation,» Stumpf said.

This may explain in part why Rogers didn't talk up LTE as much as might have been expected during its Q2 call.

For starters, when everyone starts talking to bots, it opens up technology to a much wider audience (and means there's a new untapped market for entrepreneurs).

«At the end of the day,» he says, «you want to see people roll up their sleeves and just go to work and stop talking so much about it.»

Instead of waiting long periods of time for the next person to speak up, everyone will be prepared to talk through ideas and you'll have a much greater chance of deciding the best course of action that same day.

It can drive my wife a little crazy when we talk too much business at home, but we all signed up for this ride.

While much of the world is talking about how crowdfunding startups is a surefire way to increase success, Miller is banking that it is a useful way to speed up failure and fast.

Developing and protecting the culture is one of the most sacred parts of the SEAL experience, but if you listen to a lot of conversation in the business world, «culture» isn't much more than a soft buzzword that gets put up on a PowerPoint slide once or twice a year ten minutes after you talk about the corporate mission statement or annual strategic initiatives.

Rather than picking up the phone and talking with a company about their own services, customers are able to go online and find much more informative, unbiased data.

«Then they came up with some sensors that Elon Musk said would drive itself across itself the country by the end of 2016,» Wozniak said, referring to a much - talked - about «summon» function Musk has promoted.

If you spend too much time around the people you work with, you end up talking about work all the time, which can add to your stress.

Adam Seifer, co-founder and former CEO of Fotolog.com, one of the oldest and most popular photo sharing sites on the net, said: «I frequently find myself trying to convince partners, advisees, etc., that one of the biggest risks a start - up has is to not launch anything at all — to get so caught up in talking about what you're going to launch and so fixated on details that it feels like you're making progress when instead what you're really doing is moving asymptotically closer to something that doesn't ultimately matter as much as you think it does.»

You have literally hundreds of different platforms that have started up, and people talking about crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding, crowdlending, shared business lending — there's just so much confusion,» he says.

The other 11 countries in the agreement have already wrapped up grueling negotiations, and Trump simply doesn't have the leverage he would have had if he were already in talks and threatening to pull out if he doesn't get what he wants (much the way he has with renegotiations over NAFTA).

If press coverage matters so much then why shouldn't I talk it up more in my VC pitch?

There's so much innovation and happenings going on in the field of Bitcoin that it's hard to keep up — and that's why Bitcoin Talk Radio is here to help!

«There are certainly things that are illegal content, so that is more of an area where talking about regulations could make sense, but so much of what comes up in general discussion about this is out of reach of government action from the get - go.»

The first is legacy: that most firms still have so much «clean - up» to do to fix longstanding technology and data issues that have built up over the years: systems don't talk with one another; data aggregation takes days or weeks, when the needs are really more immediate; and data quality isn't what it needs to be.

And so much of it lines up with what I learned researching SEAL training and talking to former Navy SEAL Platoon Commander James Waters.

O'Reilly: We won't talk about it too much here today, but I think the best way to sum it up is, everybody saw it coming, and somebody wrote a huge check.

The two countries have sometimes teamed up in trilateral trade talks in pressing common interests with the much larger United States.

In their conversations, they often talked about how much enjoyed working with early stage companies, building them from the ground up.

To top it off, Iran said they will pump as much oil as possible, even after the Saudi's talked up a production freeze.

Retirement account lock - ups: I talked about this in more detail in this post, and do not see this as much of an issue.

There's so much talk about creating the perfect platform to wow audiences, entice customers and outdo competitors, but once your website is up...

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

In any case, because there is so much noise happening in the above ground world currently, we choose not to spend time on any particular theme or trend that popular media is busy talking up.

You're probably similar to so many «Christians» that talk so much they never realize everyone around them just wishes they would shut the hell up.

Your going to end up sick if you keep letting it eat away at you so much, and quit being a hypocrite by accusing others for not acting Christian and then turn around and talk against them the way you do.

Every Sunday morning while the rest of the world is snoozing, you're up scouring the web for a children's message or talking to Ol' Edith Barkley who calls to beef about the bulletin or the cookie crumbs in the church hall or how much her bunions hurt.

We will look at much of this imagery in a later post when we consider the violence in the book of Revelation, but the imagery is only brought up here to show that when Jesus talks about the flood in Matthew 24, He likens it to a similar form of world - wide judgment that falls upon the earth at the end of days.

Or more up to date, I bet NASA doesn't talk about a spherical earth given that we now much better understand the true shape of the earth and many related parameters.

When we lose track of Jesus, we end up talking about a lot about things Jesus didn't say much about.

You can dress it up with as much Jesus talk and Bible verses and self - righteousness as you'd like.

We do not yet talk about how much we all are interdependent and need to relate to an equal, how challenging and beneficial that process can be, how often this need is thwarted, how little practice we get in it, and how much of our life is spent at the much more primitive level of learning how to be either one - up or one - down.

Only with much difficulty can we escape from spatialization (and Bishop John A. T. Robinson was right when he said that it was ridiculous to talk about the God who is «up there» somewhere above us.

William's simple statement made me realize I haven't talked much about other religions with our children, and the particularities of our Christian practice flare up when I think about William comparing himself to Noah and Sarah.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

You atheists know who you are, so don't argue about it, go talk with the Humanist Atheists, you don't have to give up atheism, but you can not keep writing off the world's religions because they are quite frankly the most important deciding factors in whether this world will survive much longer, whether there will be chaos in the world or order.

When you think about what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities, and all the good its done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally... For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we're up against, and the sixth century barbarism that they actually represent.