Sentences with phrase «not get things going»

Canyon Creek, shell shocked from the blowout inning, could not get things going again.

Kuchar's up - and - down week finished with a 1 - under round of 71, as the No. 6 player in the world could not get things going in the tougher conditions to match the rounds of 66 and 64 he posted earlier.

Not exact matches

Things aren't going to get better unless we get actively involved and try to knock some sense into these zealots, who are all worried about everyone's feelings whatever the facts may be.

Some of them got jobs, and a lot of them went successfully into treatment because if you're not spending all your time thinking about how you're going to pay for your next fix, you do have time to think about other things.

When John Perry started writing his essay «How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done» in 1996, he didn't think it would eventually go viral or lead to a satiric Ig Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

So you don't get sucked into the drama of life, so you remain grounded, being an observer of what's going on in terms of «oh, what's the best thing we need to do in this situation.»

I launched it and the program went well, in the sense that we got a lot of customers on board and I got a training program in place, but the mistake [I made] was moving a little too quickly and not thinking through things all the way through.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

More and more, people are judging the value of the products they buy against not one, but two currencies: money, and the effort it's going to take to get the damned things home.

«Oil is certainly one of the things that we believe economically could get their (North Korea's) attention, and getting their attention is what we need to do to convince them that the course they're on is a destructive course that is not going to lead to protecting North Korea's interests but one that's going to led to their demise,» he said.

But entrepreneurs don't let a little thing like going against the odds get in the way of following their dreams.

Of course, you don't need to go to a sober rave to reap these benefits — all you have to do is get moving first thing in the morning.

To increase our own levels of success we must refrain from whining, complaining or getting angry when things aren't going our way.

«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.»

When things start to go awry, bring together those who aren't getting along and make them work through their concerns.

As process oriented as the new CEOs are, you get the sense that one of the things they don't love and aren't driving are the products (go look at the Apple Watch announcements and see who demos the product).

You're not going to get everything you need to know about sales from reading this column, but there are four things you should investigate and understand:

When I did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time doing digital anthropology... going to chat rooms and getting people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about in person.

Things got weird in the closing hours as a contingent of Clippers, including owner Steve Ballmer, Rivers, and players Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, and Paul Pierce decided they were not going to leave Jordan's home until his new contract was signed at 12:01 a.m. ET, according to Ramona Shelburne of ESPN.

As we got started, things weren't going well.

You want to think about what to do in the face of an of these, and if you're trying to get outside funds, having a contingency plan shows that you've considered what to do if things don't go according to plan.

You don't know when things are going to get rough, so protect yourself and others.

«We have intense personal goals (summiting), a key team goal (getting everyone home safely), and everyday small things go wrong that if not dealt with will cause failure.

For one thing, if he ever gets another chance to sell his businesses, he's not going to write about it until the deal is done.

Every element of films or drama just be open to ideas and sometimes you get ideas as you're going and it's great to be able to incorporate them because you're not glued into one thing.

Too many Millennials complain about not getting paid enough while they do one of two things: they either do not ask for a raise, period, or they do not take the time to understand what would warrant a raise and going all - in on acquiring that skill set.

And fourth would be the kind of resilience or hope that enables you to get back up again when things are not going well.

Just recognize it is going to push everything down a notch, and odds are you are not going to get to things on the bottom of the list.

We get to choose that we're going to expect the marriages to do [some] sorts of things, but not [some] other sorts of things.

Here's how Gawker founder Nick Denton describes Smith's pitch to brands: «He's got a lot of bravado and confidence that he uses with people who really don't understand where things are going with the media.

You're supposed to go to your niece's birthday party in two days from now, but you didn't expect things to get so busy at work.

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.»

If you're going to be basically sleeping under your desk to get your start - up off the ground, why not make things a little more comfortable and actually merge your place of business with your place of residence?

«He didn't get caught up in whose fault things were when something went wrong or who takes the credit when something went right.

Google employees take ski trips and go on summer picnics, and while these aren't things a company can do every week, getting out of the office is good to give employees a break and help keep motivation levels up.

Faced with the challenges of motivating people to take action on things like pension contributions, getting health insurance or going to college, Barack Obama didn't roll the dice on a Super Bowl spot.

MS: Part of my job is looking at how we get to the next level, and you're always looking at options, whether it's raising money or going public — both of which are not exactly easy things in the current market.

... Short of a real disaster in markets, I think the Fed is going to have to look through this market thing and not get pushed around by the markets all the time and get scared into not doing anything.

«There are lots of other things like slowing growth, and net interest margins that won't get going, and the brouhaha over trying to outsource 45 jobs.»

In which case, get your fill of Netflix U.S. now because Unblock Us isn't going to be the next big thing.

«What we like to do is really develop things that aren't just going to get shelved at the end of development, but find their way to benefit the people in need,» Blair Lock, Director of Operations at The Center for Bionic Medicine of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, said.

We're all beyond busy these days and things aren't gonna get better any time soon so the last thing we need is more chores.

While I may not wear the same thing every day, I do wake up at the same time each morning, check my email, go for a run, read while eating breakfast, and then get to work.

When you look at most big things that get done in the world, they're not done by one person, so you're going to need to build a team.»

The rich are getting richer because the middle class can't buy property, they can't buy property because the cost of normal things are exponentially higher today than 10 year ago, rents keep going up because people can't buy property making it harder to get away from renting.

If things don't go according to plan, being a preferred stockholder can mean the difference between getting your money back and not.

The reality is that Republicans do not have 60 votes in the Senate, so getting things done like tax cuts is going to require some horse trading.

Rich = not just financial, it's emotional, spiritual, health, etc. [6:01] Two skills for true wealth, first is the «Science of Achievement» [6:34] After talking to top investors, Tony found that everyone invests differently, but there are some things that everyone has in common: The Core Four [6:46] Same as health, everyone is unique, but there are fundamentals that if you violate the rules you're going to not have energy, get sick [7:23] Three fundamentals for achievement [7:32] What is something in your life today that once was a dream?

But acrimony isn't limited to the founding team, and when things go bad with an investor, it can get ugly pretty quickly as evidenced in the case of ArsDigital.