Sentences with phrase «not being nice to people»

«I really don't want to say anything bad about Kareem,» says Rambis, «but it's almost as if he has that athlete's syndrome of not being nice to people.

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«If someone flips, which can happen under pressure, then that person has to apologize in front of everyone for not being nice.»

«People don't walk around with anti-résumés telling you what they have not studied or experienced (it's the job of their competitors to do that), but it would be nice if they did,» Taleb claims.

My son had started to complain about small problems at school («This person wasn't nice to me,» «Someone wasn't playing with me,» etc.).

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

«You can make a well - made suit with the best fabric, but if you sell it to the person in the wrong size, it's still not a very nice suit,» explains de Jong.

Mark arrived, did some taped interviews, came to the green room and chatted with Eric, talked to people with enough juice to get in the door — he could not have been nicer.

«I realized that I wasn't going to be able to have the kind of life people have in the States — a good house, a nice car, maybe a summer house — if I finished school and went to work for a company,» Fuks says.

«It's not a bad technique,» Whitaker says, «But a lot of people can answer those questions «of course I would do this and I would be nice to everyone,» and a lot of people get fooled by those.»

But while it may be tempting to single out Ellison as the ruthless villain of high technology, «none of these guys are nice,» says Jeffrey Pfeffer, a business professor at Stanford University and author of Power: Why Some People Have It — And Others Don't.

On the lower end of this spectrum is the cultural misfit, the person that just isn't nice to be around.

I know it's painful to be apart from your nice kitchen equipment, but the fact is that so many people (roommates, friends, friends of roommates, etc.) will be in and out of your kitchen in college that you really can't know how well your stuff will be treated.

Few people use their free time to do something nice, not because they're expected to but simply because they can.

But there's been this story told of founders who are just not nice to people and that's what it takes to get ahead.

«We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd - Frank because, frankly, I have so many people, friends of mine, who have nice businesses who can't borrow money,» Trump said at a meeting with CEOs.

Because you don't like confrontation, and you're afraid to cut a «nice person.»

Nice - Matin also reported that he had been condemned to a suspended sentence of six months for committing a violent crime with a weapon, but he was not under the surveillance of French authorities and was not listed as a person who could pose a threat.

«All of these people that I spoke to, who could tell you a not very nice story about Steve, are also eager to tell you that he made them better.»

Even if a person is unfamiliar, she may not think of him as a stranger if he's nice to her.

• A product / services that addresses a large market need (not a nice to have) • Team that can execute who has a solid understanding of business and challenges • Validation / proof (de-risk) • Some are seeking social impact or to balance impact with profits The Investment Process • Pitch deck is bare essential • Meet and greet is only the first step • All investment basics must be met • Due diligence review • Terms negotiated • Close (in person) What are investors looking for?

More automatic stabilizers would be nice, but you are talking to people who won't even index things for inflation.

It was as if the crash is just another business cycle downturn, not aggravated by any systemic financial flaws, but, if anything, by liberal government planners being too nice to poor people, by providing cheap mortgage credit to the uninitiated who could not quite handle the responsibility.

You might be a superstar genius but if people don't always refer to you as a «really nice person» then you definitely don't belong here.

And not to take anything away from the Mexican people, because they really are very special... but there are nice, kind people everywhere...

If there isn't enough money in your estate to pay off the debt, the lender will go after that nice person who co-signed your loans, and you don't want that to happen.

Knowing you're not alone is nice and all, but what's a person to do to recover those low CPC and plentiful impressions?

I don't discredit people or choose not to work with those who haven't had several years of experience, but it's nice to know whether you're working with somebody who is an industry veteran or somebody who is starting to learn the ropes.

«Mentoring is not a nice - to - have, it is a need - to - have — especially if our goal is to empower and employ young people, and enhance the prosperity and productivity of our country,» says Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada.

It would certainly be nice to earn an income by doing absolutely nothing, but for most people, life just isn't that easy.

However, a healthy work culture is often seen as a «nice to have» and not a must have — but our movement's people are its most valuable asset, so investing in a culture that sustains them is critical.

There are some non-financial issues with being in equities in late retirement — although there's a case to be made that staying on top of this helps retain intellectual facilities a bit if we look at Warren Buffet and his dreadful diet, looking at the state some people get into as they get older I'm not sure they should be licensed to drive an equity portfolio unless they can sit on their hands and let that nice Mr Vanguard sort out the rebalancing shenanigans...

Plus most of the people churning out these posts are not implementing half the stuff they talk about, because it take's way too f**king long and whilst you are trying to buy influencers dinners, take them out for a nice meal, buy them something expensive and paint their house for free in return for a link, your competitors got 1000 profile links for $ 200 and are kicking your ASS in the SERPs.

If anything, we are nice people because we want to be, not because the we are forced to be by a deity.

Christianity isn't about «being nice» to people.

I am really glad I won't ever have to meet you in person, because you do not seem very nice.

[JC] I think we just try to be down - to - earth about everything.It'd be awesome to sell like 500,000 records, but if we never do, I don't think any of us would be heartbroken.We're not at some crazy, huge level, but we're happy that a bunch of people come to the shows, and it's nice to sell some t - shirts or whatever.

You do not need a god or religion to tell you to be a nice person — you can do that all on your own.

Kanye West is not a man to say nice things about other people's work, so when he does, it raises eyebrows.

It's nice to see that there are some clear - headed, intelligent, progressive people in the Catholic faith who understand that thousand - year old doctrines don't always translate into appropriate, actionable advice in the modern world.

People are happy with the little ministries and groups that they participate in and Sunday worship is nice, so they try not to concern themselves with the ethics that underlie the whole thing.

Nicholls said that for non-Christian it just encourages people to be nice to each other and that even for Christians «it doesn't really have a lot of bite to it normally, it's fairly bland and fairly unchallenging and sometimes, even worse than that, it's actually contradicting what the Christian message is.»

If «church» or Bible study or whatever gathering of people you like to go to was nice and tidy, then we wouldn't have the opportunity to forgive and be forgiven.

I read it with a bias toward David being a nice guy... so I assumed that he was pointing out that @ $ $ holes come in many flavors and being atheist or Christian doesn't make you any more or less prone to it... some people are just pricks.

Time to end the «nice people don't talk about religion» bullsh!t and see religion for what it is — 100 % pure crap!

Things aren't supposed to be nice and neat for people of God.

In Church, because we're all Christian and because we want to be nice to people, we let well - meaning people do the wrong jobs and therefore we do God a disservice by not presenting his incredibleness in the best possible way.

Now that many have come out, people realize they are very nice people and not made to be the vipers stated in church (or in the bible, where it is advocated they be put to death).

Must be nice to rely on ambiguous language to attack people for things they may or may not even believe.

If you need a god to tell you to be nice, then you really aren't a nice person at all.

I don't know if you read the whole thread or not, but Mustard seed was in essence whining because people were not being nice to her, unfriending her on facebook etc..