Sentences with phrase «not going about things»

However, as I've been reading (and looking at the markup actually created when I upload my books to KDP), I'm starting to suspect I'm not going about things in the most efficient or effective way.

He isn't going about things in the right way.

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.

Second of all, if you lie about the job, then the person starts working for you and sees that things aren't the way you presented them, you are going to lose them and they will go work for another company.

I had to go to the library to find a book on beginner's mind, the Internet still being a thing of the future, and I learned that what he expected from me was an attitude of openness, a lack of preconceived ideas about how things had to be, and a wealth of questions that started with, «what if» and «why not.»

ONE FUN THING: In an earnings call this morning, J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said, «I'm not going to talk about Bitcoin anymore.»

«Technology may let us talk together, and share information together, and analyze a few things together, but I wouldn't worry about going away from human decisions,» he said.

I don't know about you, but I want to know what went so wrong — and how they changed things for the better.

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After quite a bit of this, I couldn't take it anymore and introduced myself, told them I was working with Peter and we were here in this meeting to learn more about their views and opinions about how things were going in the company.

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:

He won't go into any kind of detail about what's to come, except to say: «Next year, completing the core things that people need in a bed is definitely our first priority.»

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.

Don't think too much about how things could go wrong and the risks associated with actions.

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

For example, one episode is titled, «Three things Instagram won't teach you about being an entrepreneur,» and another is, «Enough with the webinars and ecourses, go hustle and have patience.»

Our CEO personally goes around and catches up with every employee, not just about work, but personal things.

«If you're not dreaming about it and aren't waking up in the morning having thought of three ways to do something different, then it's not going to be the right thing long - term.

The brand has its own thing going, and in my view, it's different from Lexus's «Don't think about it» approach toward luxury and the Germans» focus on driving performance.

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.

It's a place you can go that is very safe and you can talk about things that are working — or not.

When concerned about political correctness and focusing on things that, quite frankly, don't even matter in the workplace, it tends to put a cloud over everything around us and communication barriers go up, and productivity goes down.

I was homeschooled, I went to college when I was 16, as a woman I'm really interested in the subjects I talk about, which are video games and things that aren't «traditionally» female.

And if not, how should I go about changing things?»

He said BlackRock is not overly concerned about liquidity in the treasuries market, but is nonetheless keeping on top of everything that's going on — things like the emergence of high - frequency trading in the interdealer market.

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.

«I hadn't gone there with the intention of doing business,» he says, «but I kept thinking about the paper I'd written and decided to check things out.»

And Sherman isn't about to let a little thing like unprecedented revenue growth from streaming services stop him from going after his favorite target.

The one thing that I heard over and over again from advertisers when I went out to ask them about it was, «We want to come back, but we're not going to do it until this has passed,» which meant that she had to go to prison.

It isn't the first time someone has said negative things on Twitter about Herbalife, but it may be the first that Herbalife has gone after.

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.

«The other goes at the heart of what the media are supposed to be doing, which is informing the public about things that might be matters of interest to them but which corporate America might not be interested in sharing with them.»

«I'll ask [potential hires] about something that hasn't gone so well in their life and then ask them what they've learned from it because the next thing I look for in people is curiosity,» he says, «I'm interested in people who take those negative experiences in their lives and are really curious about what happened and can talk intelligently about what they learned and what they might do differently.»

But Nic had this idea for his character who thought himself somewhat foolishly as Humphrey Bogart, so he was doing Bogart things, which I wasn't that crazy about, but I wasn't going to pick a fight over it.

It isn't a paid mentor, it is a friend who you can talk openly about anything going on in your world, and discuss things like feeling isolated.

«Life is going to tell you a lot of things about yourself that you didn't ask to be told,» he adds, «but when you're being true to yourself and doing what you love, none of that really matters.»

When you are looking for a franchise, make sure it is a concept that you are going to be excited about for the long term — don't just pick the first thing you see that you think will make money.

I think what's going to happen, what is really fascinating, is that you're going to see this connection between solar and electric vehicles, and I think that's one of the more interest things that not a lot of people are [talking about].

The thing about it that was so devastating is a year earlier, not a year, but not long earlier, I can't remember exactly the timing, but I had taken her with me to Fortune Most Powerful Women Conference, and she said to me on the train ride down there, «What is this thing we're going to?»

Pick one thing you haven't tried because you've been concerned about what other people think or say, and just go do it.

Not just news about deals, but data - driven insights that provide context and explain why things are happening now... and what's going to happen next.

It's not about what the algorithm was supposed to do, except that it went off and did a bad thing instead.

«Facebook cares so much about its image that the executives don't want to come out and tell the whole truth when things go wrong,» he said.

In the closest thing he attempted at a rhetorical flourish, he asserted that government should be «a benign and silent partner» to Canadians going about their economic lives «and not an overbearing behemoth squeezing them at every turn.»

If we're being honest, the best thing about TSA Pre-Check isn't that you spend $ 85 to keep your shoes on when you go through airport security.

«This does not seem like a thing that will go well, given Facebook's history of leaking sensitive data about users to each other,» tweeted Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights organization.

I know getting anywhere in life takes hard work even when chartering into unknown territory (which is referring to myself and not knowing the first thing about setting up a website and all that goes with it).

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One of the things I've done in my work is kind of show the hypocrisy of progressive people who say they believe in inequality, but when it comes to their individual choices about where they're going to live and where they're going to send their children, they make very different decisions, and I just didn't want to do that.