Sentences with phrase «never been a good person»

In doing so, she told the gentleman that she was not surprised to see him down there, since he had never been a good person.

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Regardless of what people think of you at any particular moment, one thing is certain — you're never as good or bad as they say you are.

If any good could come out of all of this, she told me, it would be to spread the word and making sure people know one simple thing: Pets should never be placed in an overhead bin on an airplane.

«If you are having a difficult hiring process but think it will be great «when they person gets on board and this hiring is behind us» let me assure you: It never gets better.

There's never been a better medium for reaching so many people at once but with only 140 characters you've got to have a point — and it better be a good one.

And when we collectively move on, the people who create a lot of the content touting this technology never take a moment to reflect on our collective obsession with technology and whether any of it is actually making human beings happier, healthier, smarter, or better off.

Without that, the best ideas will be overlooked or wasted on people who will never respond.

This is terror's edge, and most people — even good leaders — never get past it.

Our loss ratios are well below the industry average, and our clients are people most of the industry would never go near.

«Because people are trying to turn around houses very quickly and if a market is hot, sometimes people forego the home inspection and that is never a good idea,» Lesh added.

As a rule of thumb, mobile app clicks almost never provide good quality leads because most people accidentally click the ads or are not in the right frame of mind to take commercial offers seriously.

«You're basically inviting people to become out of compliance with the law, and that's never a good place to be,» he said.

It's also worth noting that, while it's never a good idea to blame innocent people, it can be useful to add a little extra credit when you feel it is deserved, to balance your biases.

I can't remember who told me this, but I think it's a paraphrasing of a quote: «You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as people say you are.»

You will never, no matter how good you get at interviewing, be able to identify every wrong person before they get a job.

Now that she follows an intermittent fasting eating regimen, she almost never eats until at least 11 a.m. And she suffers no ill effects: she's one of the smartest, most productive people I know, she's trim and fit and... well, let's just say I married way over my head.

The best line - haul drivers are quiet and introspective — which is good for people who never see a customer.

Interested consumers who have only read about the Oculus Rift but have never experienced it in person will be able to schedule a demo of the device at Best Buy stores.

Unless you're continuously improving and working with better people, you'll never realize this.

As Evernote CEO Phil Libin said via Ryan's book, «People [who are] thinking about things other than making the best product never make the best product.»

Whether you're selling a product or service, it's a good idea to make sure you never lose touch when it comes to the people you're serving — no matter how high up the ladder you climb.

Having people over for take - out is better than never having people to an elegant dinner party.»

The Peeple controversy, in essence, demonstrates everything that is wrong with the internet: Normal persons — who are typically kind, polite, and relatively good communicators — are moved to voice things online in a way they would never do face - to - face.

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Well, if you just come up with a simple chart of a few key people and their titles, and never bother to update it ever again, you'll find yourself constantly fighting fires — fires that are completely unnecessary.

There's a well - circulated adage (often erroneously attributed to Maya Angelou), that says, «People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.&People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.&people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.&people will never forget how you made them feel.»

Don't give the person permission to do something that they can do without you: Few things make customers angrier than a customer service representative who responds to a customer's threat to never do business with the company again by saying, «well that's certainly your choice.»

If you think that people would judge you for trying something new or that if you created a tribe you'd be surrounded by a lot of bitching — if you let fear hold you back, you will never be able to truly disrupt things and create something better.

The one thing that can never stop is making sure we are developing our people and treating them well.

I have never hired anybody, whether it's a person of colour or a different ethnic background or age or gender, unless they're the very best person I can find.

There is a world full of skilled people seeking jobs but hiring someone who will never come to the office is well outside the comfort zone of many employers.

The ironic thing is, Twitter might be the best tool for news delivery that millions of people have never used.

I get frustrated and annoyed with things just like anyone else, but I've never felt the sentiment of these sentences - yet I've heard them from entrepreneurs looking to start their own companies, from consultants working on projects, and from people trying their best to orbit the giant hairball that is a Fortune company...

In much the same way most people would never purchase a new car with a 30 - year loan, purchasing quick - turnaround inventory, bridging a seasonal cash flow gap, or ramping up to fulfill the needs of a new contract might be better suited for a short - term loan.

GREENBLATT: Right, well the idea really was is that when you give a gate, every September or October, people have to decide whether they want to lock up for another year or two, when you have monthly liquidity, you're never forcing them to make a decision maybe the wrong time, they can always have their money and it's not a signaling device to say you should have a short time horizon, actually for what we do, you need a long time horizon.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

What's interesting is that the barriers to entry in video have never been better... but yet it's harder for people to create.

I have never calculated the alpha or beta of my firm's investment performance, which is how some people would determine whether or not we have done a good job.»

«The hunger of the people to do good and be part of change — that's something I've never seen in my life, after the military.

Most people can't beat me, I have been given real estate portfolio after my parents divorced when I turned 18, I'll be 27 now and never officially worked a day in my life, I am financially independent and I am able to increase standards of my lifestyle every year thanks to growing income stream well above the rate of consumer price index.

I still say to myself when I am depressed and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people: «Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.»

Even though binary options are very popular today, there are still many people who never tried it and would like to find a good way to generate profits.

«Some of the most successful men of the 19th century never went to college, and today, those who didn't go to college are more intelligent, better informed and less easily fooled than the people who did go to college.»

Stop the PC preaching - it's annoying, it talks down to people from some «lofty» place inhabited only by those who talk a good game and never put their $ where their mouths are.

If people could just follow the teachings for themselves and leave others alone to live as they believe, then the world would truely be a better place where millions were never slaughtered in the name of some one elses god.

Before you can understand math, you have to believe it will do you any good to study it, else you'll probably fail out of math because it doesn't look like it's useful to you, like algebra... most people don't use it because they never believed it had any value to them, so they didn't study it, then they never found out how valuable it is.

Ever notice how the people pushing for such laws to be passed never do it for their own benefit — it's never «I need this law to prevent ME from doing something» — nope — it's always a law for their neighbour «for their own good».

Religion is not a good thing unless you keep it in it's protective box and never use it to attack people.

it cracks me up that people would be respectful to any god that would offer up their own son in blood scarifice, not a kind and benevolent, all knowing god, an evil and hateful god, we would be better off overing respects to santa clause, to my knowledge all he does is disappoint from time to time ive never known him to kill and destroy mankind by divers and sundry forms of cruel punishment.

Gerald, not only are you talking about a 2000 year old viewpoint where people died off much faster and earlier than they do today, but to quote another verse in the bible, it says that a mans seed should never be wasted and would serve better in the belly of a wh * re.