The opposite of not traveling isn't sitting a room staring at the wall.
Not exact matches
And one of the things I'm excited about — hopefully you'll have some more time now that you've turned over the CEO role — that people like you and me can
sit in a
room and say let's forget about what we believe and don't believe.
They don't have to drive downtown, find expensive parking, go to a big office building,
sit in a waiting
room, and feel intimidated.
It's a great way to get a sense of their personality and observe behaviors you might
not otherwise pick up
sitting in a conference
room.»
Altman couldn't invest in Backstage Capital, given his commitments to Y Combinator, but one night as Hamilton
sat in a motel
room in Houston, unsure when her next meal would come, Altman sent her an email.
Sister forbade us from going through the
room, saying she didn't want anyone going into it until it was dinnertime, essentially leaving my wife and I
sitting alone outside, while she and her friends had a chocolate fountain & open bar.
When the co-founder of California - based Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) isn't
sitting in the middle of a 70 - person trading
room or staring at a Bloomberg machine, he's doing yoga at a health club across the street, thinking of his best ideas.
While
sitting in your hotel
room with the air conditioner pumped all the way up can feel good in terms of body temperature, you don't want to be stuck in that
room forever.
Plus, I'm going to make a complaint because I wanted to upgrade anyway, and was told there wasn't any
room, but I debunked that myth by
sitting in a seat that was, in fact, empty.
Sitting in a small conference
room near her desk — she has no office — and casually dressed in a Patagonia down vest with prayer beads on her wrist, she couldn't seem more at peace with her journey.
As Burgstone
sat in the conference
room waiting for the investor meeting to begin, he realized that Sequoia rarely seemed to invest in things that don't make money.
Whenever a meeting doesn't require PowerPoint or other presentation materials, invite your coworkers to join you on walking meetings rather than
sitting around the conference
room.
«Well, I've been
sitting here all day / I've been
sitting in this waiting
room / And I've been waiting on my friends / Yes, waiting on this conference call — all alone / And I'm on hold, well yes, I'm on hold / I hope it's
not all day»
«I've never been a millionaire on YouTube,» she said, «but I've made over $ 100,000 making videos, waking up in my home and
not sitting in traffic, just creating content out of my living
room.»
A long - standing feud between Forestall and design chief Jony Ive had escalated to the point where the two executives couldn't even
sit in the same
room with each other.
Economize on a desk (I often
sit at the dining
room table to write) or other furnishings or frills... but see your chair as an investment,
not an expense.
«Boeing just doesn't
sit around in a
room and come up with the checklist for take - offs.
See, you can
not sit in a
room and argue about mathematics if you do
nt believe in numbers.
Businesses aren't all a «Board of Directors» that are
sitting in a conference
room somewhere completely out of touch with the real world.
If you discovered an elephant in your
sitting room, you would immediately ask yourself how it got to be there — you would
not think, «Oh well, maybe it's just here for no reason — elephants often just turn up like that.»
The other day I was
sitting in a coffee shop and couldn't help overhearing an interesting and intense debate on the other side of the
room.
It was thus that on Shabbat Parashat Re'eh, in the
room adjacent to the bedroom where my mother breathed her last, we
sat down to discuss Nahmanides» (Ramban's) commentary on Deuteronomy 14:1 - 2: «You are children of God; do
not cut yourselves (lo titgodedu) or make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
I
sit in the green
room, fidgeting with my water bottle and trying
not to make eye contact with the famous preacher whose pictures line the walls.
So that afternoon I
sat by the fireside in the senior guest
room at St. John's and read the book from start to finish —
not because I wanted to learn from Newman, but because I wanted to hate him.
Most don't want the boxes
sitting around taking up space in their supply
rooms.
All it would have taken was one little clause: «Employee agrees to dedicate from one - half to three - quarters of her teaching time discussing why
sitting in one's
room and thinking vague thoughts about God while watching a tape of Dawson's Creek is
not an adequate alternative for attending Mass.» And I don't mind, really I don't.
On the other side of the door was my friend David
sitting at a table, and within that
room were hundreds of people all
sitting at tables, with food laid out before them, but they hadn't started eating yet.
Maxed out, the
room couldn't
sit more than 70 people.
After about an hour of eating and chatting, we moved to the living
room and
sat on couches where we introduced ourselves (for the several new people that were there), and then discussed that the way of following Jesus was
not upward mobility, but downward mobility, into the muck and messiness of life.
I learned long ago that every time I study his Word devotionally it is
not enough just to
sit in my prayer
room and meditate.
You are
sitting in a
room for a government meeting and you are going to pretend you aren't forced to hear what is said in the
room?
I'll never forget
sitting in the living
room of a family from my old church, engaged in a heated argument with several straight, married couples about whether or
not one could be both a follower of Jesus and gay.
But for series one and two of
Not Going Out, we did
sit down in a
room together and do it, which was great.
Who hasn't been there,
sitting in a hospital
room, wondering how other people can go on with their lives when things are so unbearable in our own?
I remember
sitting with a bunch of Christian friends, having a laugh and
not realizing that I was hurting someone in the
room.
They can't run their own life without reading a book of bull that was written by 12 rabbi's
sitting in a
room to control the masses.
«When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do
not sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, «make
room for this person.»
it is about being able to go to the doctor if you are sick and
not sit in an emergency
room for hours.
well usually i do
nt have to
sit alone in a closed dark
room.
Anybody who would
sit down in the same
room with Franklin Graham is a lost soul and shouldn't be elected to anything short of a corner of hell.
I have no degrees in anything, and my depth of knowledge on things make it hard for me to
sit in a
room not to learn but to get a p@ssing grade!
When you think of it, when Paul said in the Corinthian correspondence that one prophet should speak; then when another stands up to speak the first one should be quiet and
sit down; and that the content of what they say is held up to scrutiny, discerned and judged by the community... wasn't Paul implicitly giving
room for heresy?
I don't like
sitting in a crowded
room being forced to stand, watching the groupies raise their hands to lyrics that haven't touched me yet.
«If a guy has a hard day at work or is at a convention and wants to
sit down in his hotel
room and puts on an adult film and plays spank the monkey, why can't he do that?»
As an Atheist, I would
not be able to
sit in a
room with people shouting out «Jesus!»
If the balls don't seem to be forming at first, let the mixture
sit at
room temperature for about 5 minutes or so.
Don't turn on the microwave while the dough is in there, just let it
sit in the nice warm steamy little
room.
That show... it was the first program I remember my mom and I watching together,
not just me
sitting in the living
room alone glued to the screen, AND knowing my grandma was watching it too hundreds of miles away.
I don't want to
sit out and be the Lonely Lucy who ruins everyone's fun by reminding them that I'm the vegan in the
room.
Then the box
sits in my mud
room (
not heated, but indoors off the family
room).