Sentences with phrase «n't do the very things»

are you not doing the very thing you are mocking... proselytizing?

In fact, lots of experts continue to tell women that we absolutely should NOT do this very thing.

Why pay for a full - price ebook if it won't do the very things that make it an ebook?

Not exact matches

It has become not just a company extremely admirable in its growth, but, well, the very model for how to do things when you're scaling a company.

«It's a very rare situation,» Georg Hackl, the three - time Olympic champion and German coach, told the A.P. «But there's some things that you can't do anything about.»

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

«The bravest thing I've seen Hugh do was stare down eight to 10 weeks out of the very first Global Citizen festival (with) a sponsor who had just fallen over (and) an artist bill that wasn't complete and have him say: «We can still do this.»

We're already doing lots of things that I would consider very high - value, even though they might not be directly connected to payments and dollars.

«It's very dangerous to factor in things you don't know anything about.

«People are very attached to cash because you know where you stand with it, it's anonymous, you don't have to give your data to people and with things like data privacy and cyber-security this has really come to the fore in the last couple of months.»

As for costs, Pizza Hut spokesperson Doug Terfehr says, «While I can't share specifics of the investment, I can tell you this is biggest thing we've done in a very long time.»

This isn't a cure - all for the world's problems, but it's very clear that if we don't get started on addressing the problem, things will only continue to get worse.

«If they don't have the product and some early market traction, they're not going to get very far in the funding anyway,» he says, «so the best thing they can do to work on their funding is work on the product.»

«We really have to consider the fact up until not very long ago the best thing a woman could do for herself and her status and her future was to marry well,» she said.

Kirby, the MP for Brighton Kemptown since 2010, told BI: «I've been very clear in the house that it's an important thing, we don't intend to lose it and I'm confident that we can retain it.

This annoyed Jobs, who later told Isaacson: «The president is very smart, but he kept explaining to us reasons why things can't get done... It infuriates me.»

Barring that, the Star paywall will likely act like paywalls before it: as a significant but not transformational shift, the kind of thing that makes a lot of noise, but in the end doesn't change very much at all.

«What really matters is that companies that don't continue to experiment — companies that don't embrace failure — they eventually get in a desperate position, where the only thing they can do is make a «Hail Mary» bet at the very end.»

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

I don't know how things have worked out for you, but for me, whenever I've ignored my intuition - that little voice inside my Crown, things haven't worked out very well.

Blecharczyk said he doesn't think the hoteliers have to lose to Airbnb, given that the two industries offer «very different things.»

«If you don't try things that don't fail you probably aren't trying to do anything very interesting,» Newell said.

It was very challenging, it has a high chance that I might not be able to do it, but it was the right thing for me to do for myself and for the few thousand employees — so (I thought) let's give it a chance.»

«And when you can't do those types of things, you're left with a very intensive document search,» Buzza says.

A few days later, Sherry Cooper, the chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres and the former chief economist at the Bank of Montreal, told Business News Network she was «very worried» about skyrocketing home prices in Vancouver and Toronto because «these things generally don't end well.»

In 1915, he wrote the following happy advice to his 11 - year - old son, Hans Albert, who was attempting to master the piano: «I am very pleased that you find joy with the piano... play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those.

Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman said the biggest risk to market valuations are geopolitical, and the very things that people don't want to focus on, like North Korea.

The main reason that safety razors don't offer the same precision as straight razors is due to the guard, which is the very thing that makes the design «safe» by only exposing a sliver of the blade and restricting the angle at which it glides across your skin.

The notion that nice, regular folks can, in the right circumstances, do very bad things is not exactly new.

I don't agree very much with a lot of things our president is doing, but I do agree with his guest worker program, so that people could work here and remit taxes, for crying out loud.

They learn things very quickly and they don't have an ego about their ideas,» says Abraham, also an Inc. 30 Under 30 alum.

Self - protection is a very important thing for nations, but I just don't like to see it.»

But self - protection is a very important thing for nations and... But I just don't like to see it... I was not a big fan of going to war and in Iraq or Afghanistan for several reasons, several practical reasons.

I don't know it all, but I know one thing to be very, very true: bad shit is going to happen.

The flu is terrible this year and because the flu shot isn't very effective this year, there's a chance you'll get it even if you did the responsible thing and get your flu shot.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

«Pop thought organic was the same thing as health food, which in those days didn't necessarily taste very good,» said Nell, a biologist and environmentalist who now runs her own charitable foundation.

I once got into a very polite conversation — tour guides don't argue with guests — with a nice but unyielding tourist who said, «You have to go into teaching because that's the only thing to do with a history major.»

As she left the White House, Barra told CNBC the group had a «very constructive dialogue about a wide range of things» but did not say whether any executives disagreed with Trump.

I'm very much a believer in doing things by the book, and the previous owner didn't fully embrace the process.

Execs predicted that the bank will indeed do those things, rating the possibility a 5.0 on a 7 - point scale, where 1 means not at all likely and 7 means very likely.

«Very big companies don't know a goddamn thing about customer service,» notes retail guru Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus of Neiman Marcus Group.

It does make me worry, because one of the things I try to weed out of our company are people who have very strong egos, who believe they're always right, who can't be introspective and admit they're not perfect.»

Shows says that her work sometimes requires that she tell business owners the very thing they don't want to hear, like they're targeting the wrong market, for example.

For one thing, the study didn't prove that the shot causes miscarriages — it only identified a very slight link between them.

One thing that people don't understand is that they have no common sense and very little context about the world that we live in,» Gil said.

Another important thing I stress with my clients: It's vital to remember that very important lesson from the um story — don't personalize.

«It doesn't make sense for us to wander away and do things that we're not very good at,» chief executive Stephen Wetmore told analysts during a call Thursday.

Its relatively clear, bass - boosted sound is solid for what it is, and while its over-ear hooks don't feel totally necessary, the whole thing fits very tightly in the ear without feeling like a nuisance.