Sentences with phrase «never been successful at»

I have never been successful at just counting calories.

I especially appreciate the photos of the braiding process — I've never been successful at that... Shana Tova!

My dad (and I, but I can have sugar... although I shouldn't) loooooves pecan pie and I've never been successful at an alternative — I tried a vegan one that was so very terrible (not because it was vegan, but because it wasn't good).

For the amount of ink that's been spilled to write about these sexy strategies, the hard truth is that 90 % of investors will never be successful at any of them, because of their own inherent biases.

For instance, Aunty Anne noted that «I thought I was too old to do it... and I thought I was too big that I would never be successful at achieving anything».

Not exact matches

Laloux said that he finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

At my wedding, I think I actually said that I always thought I'd be successful but I never expected to be happy.

We've never been 100 percent sure that any of the businesses we've started at Virgin were going to be successful.

Online platforms make it easier than its ever been to start and run a successful business at a time when there's never been more need for an alternative to the stagnant traditional job market.

Back in 2008, under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, an email was posted to a cryptography mailing list about a new electronic cash system that they designed, with properties that many for years had been trying to create, but were never successful at.

You will never fully understand the bond market until you understand this: a successful outcome for a bond investor is that he gets one hundred cents on his dollar back at the end, with a reasonable income stream along the way.

Part of his job is avoiding the worst - case scenarios, and if he assumes he will be successful at doing so, he never will turn dark enough to satisfy the skeptics.

«Hold off sexual activity as long as you possibly can, preferably until you've chosen a mate; but if you can't wait, use birth control, and if you use birth control, it is never 100 % successful at preventing pregnancy, nor is it always successful at preventing STDs, even if used correctly.»

However, even if successful they will never be able to claim ultimate victory in their war against the poor unless we fall into the trap of looking at history through the policymakers» distorted lenses.»

«I never thought when I was a manager of a McDonald's at age 25, that I would still be doing this... and continue to be so successful,» he admits, adding that his children and grandchildren work alongside him at Boselli Investments.

The restaurant chain was successful, but he was never satisfied with the performance of what he believed was the best steak meat he could buy at the time.

I've never been very successful at the gingersnap, but I could sure use a good ginger cookie right now!

That's why those people are NEVER HAPPY and usually not successful at anything they attempt... they are failures waiting to happen... they don't follow instructions... or exact measurements....

It is strange really, because when the Gunners were enjoying our most successful period, which culminated in the amazing and perhaps never to be matched achievement of winning the Premier League without losing a single game, it was with the combative midfield warrior Patrick Vieira at the heart of the side.

Are some of you on here missing a few brain cells as fans There is nothing Arsenal or Wenger can do with the Sanchez situation He wants to leave and has been offered 400k a week in wages who in their right mind is going to turn that down as a player As for blaming wenger who has been our most successful manager helped us build a stadium gave us 20 years of cl football and some of the best teams the ol has seen Including the invincible and you all have the Gaul to trash the man as if he has done nothing for the club I suggest you should look at the plastic fans in the Arsenal blogs that have created a toxic atmosphere at the club They attack their own players in a daily basis why would any top player come to s club where the manager the owners and players are shamelessly attached constantly Yet Wenger wins trophies regularly even them that is derided Look at Spurs Liverpool they win fuk all every year yet their fans back then Look at yourselves and all the negativity that you have created striking the club before you blame Wenger for everything I have been a season ticket holder since the 70s and never have I seen our fanbase been so full of entitled morons who have stopped backing the club and constantly deride the club snd attack it We have the worst fanbase in football you have made this great club a lagging stock in world football All you now us fans constantly moaning If you don't like Arsenal fc then buy out kronke and run the club or fuk off and support someone else You won't be missed CAre some of you on here missing a few brain cells as fans There is nothing Arsenal or Wenger can do with the Sanchez situation He wants to leave and has been offered 400k a week in wages who in their right mind is going to turn that down as a player As for blaming wenger who has been our most successful manager helped us build a stadium gave us 20 years of cl football and some of the best teams the ol has seen Including the invincible and you all have the Gaul to trash the man as if he has done nothing for the club I suggest you should look at the plastic fans in the Arsenal blogs that have created a toxic atmosphere at the club They attack their own players in a daily basis why would any top player come to s club where the manager the owners and players are shamelessly attached constantly Yet Wenger wins trophies regularly even them that is derided Look at Spurs Liverpool they win fuk all every year yet their fans back then Look at yourselves and all the negativity that you have created striking the club before you blame Wenger for everything I have been a season ticket holder since the 70s and never have I seen our fanbase been so full of entitled morons who have stopped backing the club and constantly deride the club snd attack it We have the worst fanbase in football you have made this great club a lagging stock in world football All you now us fans constantly moaning If you don't like Arsenal fc then buy out kronke and run the club or fuk off and support someone else You won't be missed Care shamelessly attached constantly Yet Wenger wins trophies regularly even them that is derided Look at Spurs Liverpool they win fuk all every year yet their fans back then Look at yourselves and all the negativity that you have created striking the club before you blame Wenger for everything I have been a season ticket holder since the 70s and never have I seen our fanbase been so full of entitled morons who have stopped backing the club and constantly deride the club snd attack it We have the worst fanbase in football you have made this great club a lagging stock in world football All you now us fans constantly moaning If you don't like Arsenal fc then buy out kronke and run the club or fuk off and support someone else You won't be missed Coyg

Whether Jose would have been able to accomplish a top 4 finish under these circumstances we will never know, but what we do know is that he has been successful only at wealthy clubs with considerable backing.

Gnabry has been less successful at Arsenal than his efforts this summer, because although he has shown good form when playing for the Gunners, it has never been enough to warrant him a regular place in the squad in Arsene Wenger's eyes.

There were a lot of Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with him at the time but we never really found out for sure if Arsene Wenger was even in the running for the hugely successful centre forward, Zlatan's words this week in a Sky Sports report suggest not, as did Wenger's suggestion some weeks ago that his age and the rigours of English football might work against the Swede.

Arjen Robben never came close to fulfilling his potential at Chelsea, and while Damien Duff was briefly successful, the purchase was not a great one.

And even if he never makes a successful career at Spurs, he will always be admired for that piece of skill.

I'm glad you posted this - I had a super long labor (I lost my mucus plug and had bloody show and contractions for over a week before they eventually forced me to have a c - section 24 hrs after my water broke... I never got to the pushing stage or dilated above 7) and anyway it is nice to hear from someone who had a long labor but still was successful at a natural birth.

But success didn't come overnight, and I learned a few things on the way to becoming a successful Nerf blogger, both at Blaster Labs, and now as the Nerf Expert for About.com (including the fact that we never call them Nerf guns — they're «Nerf blasters,» thank you very much).

I have never in my life been successful at meal planning.

When I was asked at the age of 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 what I wanted to do, what my life aspirations were, I never once thought «you know, I think I'd like to write a semi successful blog on Baby Loss».

She has been immensely successful at lying to the public to stay in office, claiming she's never raised taxes when she's raised all of the fees to the towns and the city so much that they've been forced to raise THEIR taxes.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State at the weekend described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a failed party which, according to him, was never successful...

By forcing air through their spiracles, or the holes through which they breathe, males generate a hiss that lady cockroaches apparently find quite fetching: in lab experiments, muted males were almost never successful at mating.

To determine whether an increase in certain barriers to successful cessation and sustained abstinence may be contributing to this slowed decline, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed changes in the prevalence of depression among current, former and never smokers in the U.S..

From the results of research at the University of Sydney, over 15 years of clinical experience and review of 396 research studies on weight loss, I've found substantial evidence again and again that weight loss and successful maintenance is never about finding the right «diet,» avoiding particular foods, using willpower, taking a magic pill or potion or furiously exercising.

I used my stepdad telling me I'd never be successful without him as fuel at times when I was building Onnit.»

You will never find fake profiles and gold diggers at Luxy, all profiles are genuinely for wealthy, ambitious and successful singles.

Over the years other speed dating companies have tried and failed at holding fun, innovative and successful speed dating events never to be seen or heard again.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

It's almost as if Romero has learnt nothing in all his years of experience... The Spierig brothers» Undead was more successful than this — at least they went all the way and embraced the B - grade - ness, never pretending that they were creating a masterpiece.

If Through the Never's attempts at creating a story - and - performance hybrid are only partially successful... its concert footage remains its prime selling point and strength.

«The successful collaboration between Tecmo Koei Games and Namco Bandai Games will provide excitement never seen before, surpassing the previous title with more of Dynasty Warrior's excitement and One Piece's wildly popular adventures,» says Wyman Jung, Associate Brand Manager at Namco Bandai Games America Inc. «Our goal is to bring a fresh and riveting gameplay experience fit for fans aspiring to be the next Pirate King.»

Never underestimate Bryan Cranston «s desire for the intense — in «Wakefield,» he plays a successful lawyer and family man who abandons his loved ones only to observe them at a distance from an attic above the garage.

Told thru fresh, candid interviews with its key staff, and illustrated with hundreds of outrageous images from the mag itself (along with never - seen interview footage from the magazine's prime), the film gives fans of the Lampoon a unique inside look at what made the magazine tick, who were its key players, and why it was so outrageously successful: a magazine that dared to think what no one was thinking, but wished they had.

But unfortunately, the scripting is much less successful, bouncing from incident to incident without much momentum or purpose, and never really digging into its characters or its setting (it feels like the novel's been faithfully put on screen beat - for - beat, but at the expense of any depth).

The pairing isn't as successful as that of Hanks and Tautou in the first film, and we're never given a good enough reason as to why this nurse, Sienna Brooks, simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, would be so willing to help Robert.

In fact, I am actually shocked that this film was never released in theaters after its critically successful debut at Sundance this past January.

Sister Lori «I am writing to let you know how successful I have become at work since becoming a member of your website... I never could have done it without your great website as my resource.

However, such leaders are typically serving at the pleasure of boards who are never pleased to learn that their successful CEOs are taking an interest in a new job.

I am writing to let you know how successful I have become at work since becoming a member of your website... I never could have done it without your great website as my resource.