Sentences with phrase «of doing this very thing»

Occasionally, we can all talk ourselves out of doing the very things that we know are good for us, whether it's eating clean, exercising, or staying...

We're in the process of doing this very thing throughout all of our main living space.

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We initially backed that with our own reserves, which was a very scary thing to do, but then we got a lot of interest from insurance companies.

Systems are very important, however, the first thing we would do when taking over a business would be to understand its Human Capital - we need to know what type of people we have in the organization.

Entrepreneurs dream of bringing to market the next big thing but you can do very well just by recognizing the next big thing and improving it.

«I know many employers would be very happy to support this kind of thing, and would have no concern whatsoever doing so, but if the workplace is seriously depleted, there would have to be a make - up time.

Here's the thing: at the heart of being able to do a lot of things is doing one thing at a time very strategically.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

«It comes down to the very simple things of talking about what you are doing, talking about your passion, talking about your love,» Dorsey says.

Procrastinators of course love these examples of people from history who did great things very late in life.

One of the things that Mohammed bin Salman is very interested in doing is he's interested in setting up tech hubs, essentially, in Saudi Arabia.

«The bravest thing I've seen Hugh do was stare down eight to 10 weeks out of the very first Global Citizen festival (with) a sponsor who had just fallen over (and) an artist bill that wasn't complete and have him say: «We can still do this.»

We're already doing lots of things that I would consider very high - value, even though they might not be directly connected to payments and dollars.

«People are very attached to cash because you know where you stand with it, it's anonymous, you don't have to give your data to people and with things like data privacy and cyber-security this has really come to the fore in the last couple of months.»

As for costs, Pizza Hut spokesperson Doug Terfehr says, «While I can't share specifics of the investment, I can tell you this is biggest thing we've done in a very long time.»

Then the question comes if you've managed to do that, you as a society, then the next question is about things like purpose and those kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think about.

Begin by doing a very brief introduction of your board members and allowing each person to say a few things about what they hope to contribute.

In 2005, he became mayor of Solo — the very city whose slums he had grown up in — and did so good a job busting corruption and cleaning things up, that in 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacity.

«First of all,» he says, «it makes [employees] feel special, and it builds their self esteem, which is a very powerful thing to do when it comes to employees — if you can help them build their self - esteem, then they'll go and continue to try and do it better.»

When I was doing brand management at Coca - Cola, I became a bit indoctrinated into the classical sales and marketing way of things, which is very data driven.

Getting in front of a customer and providing a quote or proposal means you are very close to the sale, but only if you do the right things from that critical time on.

In a Facebook Live session with Jerry Seinfeld, the Facebook cofounder and CEO tells the comedian that the very first thing he does in the morning, even before he gets out of bed to use the bathroom or puts in his contact lenses, is check his phone.

But — as Recode can now report, because we still do that quaint journalism thing — is a very heady group of less than a dozen, comprising most of the key players in the sector.

Here's the thing: While we are all often resistant to the idea of being told what to do, we are very susceptible to agreeing with the «moral of the story» due to how it is presented to us.

«I still work on athleticism — running and, you know, jumping — and do all those things that I need to do, but you know it's a very minimal part of what I do,» he said.

Barring that, the Star paywall will likely act like paywalls before it: as a significant but not transformational shift, the kind of thing that makes a lot of noise, but in the end doesn't change very much at all.

You just have to stick in there, keep getting out, keep meeting other actors, keep meeting people... the very worst thing you can do is stay home and hide away because that's a self - defeating spiral you might never pull out of.

The one thing that is different now from when I started is the emergence of websites who will put you in touch with people who will do a lot of this work for you and for a very low price.

Part of my night routine is to look at a preview of what the site's going to look like the next day — so the very first thing I do is pull up the site on my phone to make sure they match.

Though the survey found that social media does» t have much of an impact on loneliness — those who defined themselves as very heavy users of social media had similar loneliness scores as those who say they never used it — other things you do during the day have an impact.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

Chesky, who recently talked to Fortune about his leadership strategy, agrees, saying «It's very important that I spend my time looking over the horizon... A lot of the things I've been doing, maybe Belinda is a lot better at them than I am.»

It's very easy to get overwhelmed with all of the different things you could be doing to market yourself such as blogging, lead magnets, email marketing, sales appointments, etc..

Trump attorney John Dowd was jubilant in a statement of his own, saying, «The only thing I have to say is that I'm very happy for the country and Bob Mueller did a great job.»

One of the very first acts of business between two of the most powerful people on Earth — a duo whose to - do list involves addressing pretty fundamental disagreements on, among other things, the trade relationship that supports both economies — was to commit, publicly and unequivocally, to tackling an issue that affects literally half of each of their constituencies.

«And when you can't do those types of things, you're left with a very intensive document search,» Buzza says.

Netflix does one thing — video streaming — very well, but many of its competitors are multi-faceted companies.

A few days later, Sherry Cooper, the chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres and the former chief economist at the Bank of Montreal, told Business News Network she was «very worried» about skyrocketing home prices in Vancouver and Toronto because «these things generally don't end well.»

What does seem clear is that Uber probably has a very short amount of time in which to turn things around.

The result: Stanford tends to attract a very high percentage of prospective students who want to do their own thing and, once in Silicon Valley, the school serves up enough opportunities to push the odds in their favor.

It's a very modern way of doing things, Routh says, and it's «part of the reason Lionsgate has grown so much.»

The main reason that safety razors don't offer the same precision as straight razors is due to the guard, which is the very thing that makes the design «safe» by only exposing a sliver of the blade and restricting the angle at which it glides across your skin.

«I like that they're focused on doing one thing very well, but the more diversified your business, the less there's a chance one area will take a big bite out of your earnings when it's disrupted.»

«Very often we hire drivers from school and train them on our own values and way of doing things,» he says.

I don't agree very much with a lot of things our president is doing, but I do agree with his guest worker program, so that people could work here and remit taxes, for crying out loud.

But self - protection is a very important thing for nations and... But I just don't like to see it... I was not a big fan of going to war and in Iraq or Afghanistan for several reasons, several practical reasons.

«There will be elements that are very, very recognizable, that are super iconic to us, but it will have a very fresh take on things,» Dos Equis vice president of marketing Andrew Katz told AdAge.

And so that's... that is one that... again, it's one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether.

«One of the things I learned back in my days at Netscape was that, in the face of very serious competition, you need to remain focused on your users and customers, and if you do that, chances are you will be able to build a pretty good business,» McCue said.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.