Sentences with phrase «of a lot of things on»

My days are quite well - prepared for me, and I sometimes feel like I'm being wound up at the beginning of the day and have got one hell of a lot of things on the plate.

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«If someone is in their 30s and they have a lot of earning power but they've continued to ratchet up their lifestyle to match their earnings, they may have a fantastic lifestyle now, but they need to ask themselves: Are they doing the things they need to be doing so that they can retire on the time frame they want to?»

For one thing, the bank is sitting on a lot of cash (possibly as much as $ 4 billion by the end of the year, according to one estimate) and continues to churn out excess capital.

The key, for me, is that I have a very good team both on the insurance side — assistants and account managers who can deal with a lot of the day - to - day things — and on the football side.

Since you can't rely on what candidates say they will do, you can learn a lot from things they have already done — while not always the case, the past is at least a fairly reliable indicator of the future.

But in the scheme of things, if you look back at my track record as a CEO, I think you'll find that while I look at a lot of things, I actually pass on most.»

«My mom said chances are you will be to [sic] busy with more important things but there is a lot of people coming on these buses and even just a meeting from you or your wife would really lift peoples spirits,» The Washington Post reports her writing in her letter.

Millennials in particular «really want to constantly learn new things, so give them lots of stretch assignments — which doesn't just mean piling on more work.

«I think there will be a lot of money made on the upside here, when things finally do start to normalize,» he says.

«A lot of things have come together in the past few years to put us on a growth trajectory.»

«The thing about his appointment that I think has not been picked up on by a lot of people who've been reporting on this is when Clarke was under consideration to be chosen at sheriff, there was not any hint from anywhere that he was a conservative,» said Mark Belling, a conservative Wisconsin talk - show host.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

If you have a lot of old, antique things, you want to show that you're sophisticated, and if you have a large number of keys hanging from the side of your pants, it's likely you never really had control as a child, and you want to compensate for that later on.

A lot of people think that negotiating means simply trying to get a better price on things, but that's very naive — there is a lot more to it than that.

For one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortune.

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We need to focus in on these things, but we also need to create an environment that makes it easier for ideas to bloom in lots of different industries.

They were asked to rank themselves at that moment in time on statements like: «I feel like most of my life lies ahead of me,» «My future seems infinite to me,» «Time is slipping away,» and «I have a lot of time in which to get things done.»

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.

We had a lot of trepidation early on around Facebook Live and wanting that to be a responsible channel — where it wasn't a channel being used to just broadcast violent things or things that we found don't align with the values of our brand.

It doesn't take long to clear things off — especially if you have a lot of trash lying around — and the benefits of working on a cleaner desk are immediate.

And while we don't yet have a lot of specifics on what the Amazon venture with JPM and Berkshire will entail — the companies smartly left the details vague — «we can make up a few things,» says Wolf.

A lot of people come together to enjoy Guinness as they do on St. Patrick's Day and they do the same thing around the holidays.

«There have been times when I've had a really busy week and a lot has been going on and I'll sit down on the cushion and then I'll just start crying and I'll realize that I'm so sad about this one thing, but I had no space to grieve, no space to think about it; I was zipping from one thing to the other all week,» says Pennell, who has studied at Insight Meditation Society, one of the top meditation centers in the country.

FLAKE: There are a lot of things I disagreed with President Obama on with regard to foreign policy, and domestic policy as well.

If we had taken VC money early on, it would have been hard to justify a lot of those things.

«Lots of people set high goals, and, if things don't work out, they may be disappointed for a few hours or a day, but they move on,» Antony says.

While $ 1.3 trillion won't do much to change the outlook for inflation or future debt crises, it sure would give a lot of households one last chance to set things on a more positive course.

«On paper, things look good — our spoilage is in check, and I don't have a lot of back stock,» he said.

The good news is that a lot of things you might not expect actually count as small businesses, including freelancing, side gigs, and even selling things on eBay.

The connected car is now widely seen as an open platform on which you put many things and I want to take a lot of credit for the way this is being played out, with millions of dollars of investment dollars because of the work I have laid out.

«They would be able to engage with a lot of things that we are all consumers of but not necessarily creators of — understanding how you put together little scripts that might run on websites and filters.»

And that appetite depended a great deal on investors» thinking on a lot of different questions, including things like whether Facebook still has room to grow or not.

Mills may be an original, but he's certainly not the only one to have developed a «particular set of skills» over the course of a career — lots of people on LinkedIn claim to have done the exact same thing.

But a new study on patent infringement, one packed with lots of great data on things like the law firms and courts most involved, pulls back the curtain on fantasy and reveals the role of big businesses in the fast - changing patent law landscape.

LanguageLine, says Klein, had been trying to do a lot of things to boost its bottom line, from selling prepaid interpreter calling cards to monetizing data on language usage, but most of its efforts were only an afterthought.

There's a lot of things that go into it, which we don't even always 100 percent know the answer to but we kind of guess based on the feedback that we have from our audience.

There are lots of ways to accomplish that, but one thing's for sure: When members of a management team disagree on something important, there has to be one clear leader who decides which path to choose.

People don't want to wait that long, so a lot of people abandon news before it has loaded or just don't even bother tapping on things in the first place, even if they wanted to read them.»

«There are a lot of things on the table,» White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

A lot of things you can get away with in your 20s (like subsisting on lots of beer, little sleep, and no exercise), will quickly make you fat, miserable, and sick just a few years later.

The company also hired Environics, a marketing analytics company, to help identify their target market: folks who spend lots of time on their mobile devices, are open to trying new things and have a high degree of control over their finances.

While working on GetCrafty, Kalin noticed two things: first, that there were a lot of crafters on the Internet, and, second, that many of them hated eBay.

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.

But at least one thing was clear: Apple intrigued people — a lot of people — on Tuesday.

«Doing 20 cases on countries and politics taught me one important thing: there's a lot of similarity between different politics situations.

Heinz says this new version of ketchup will be delicious on a lot of things that regular ketchup would be super weird on, like chicken and eggs.

But its own initiatives deserve a lot of credit: among other things, Best Buy has been reinventing its Geek Squad to better leverage its workers» expertise in stores and one - on - one house calls to help customers understand, install and better use the vast numbers of tech products.

We had over 60,000 visitors on our website in one hour; there were a lot of things happening.»

Some of the larger banks put a lot of selling pressure on their clients during the downturn, and there will be some backlash against them as things recover and debt becomes more available.