Sentences with phrase «of hearing conversation»

You won't get the benefit of hearing conversation or any ambient noise but you'll be able to protect your ears.

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Levanway lost most of his hearing when was 4 years old because of an illness, but cochlear implants let him hear close to normally in face - to - face conversations.

As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Today, we hear a lot of doom and gloom conversation about where the world is going, yet many positive things are happening all around us.

Afterwards, invite the interviewer into conversation by saying something along the lines of, «I'd love to hear about the kind of public speaking this job involves.»

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters have suggested that the now - notorious 2005 conversation made public by the Washington Post on Friday — in which Trump is heard making sexually explicit comments about women while TV personality Billy Bush eggs him on — was typical of the kind of harmless «locker room talk» in which men engage in all the time.

I hear a lot of cheap conversation and a fair amount of wishful thinking about this year's expected abundant crop of initial public offerings, but — at least to date — there's not much to show for all the talk.

Entrepreneur: We're hearing more conversation about the intersection of entrepreneurship and economic development, especially in emerging markets.

Everyone likes to hear a compliment, and everyone loves to be told their work is appreciated, so you'll have the start of a happy conversation.

Blakely described a party she attended in early days of Spanx when she struck up a conversation with three men who had heard she was an inventor.

Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

I have already heard a version of this story in a two - hour conversation over Skype.

With that, you'll never hear conversations such as «I thought you should be doing this... isn't this part of your job?»

Around the same time, I started hearing from young entrepreneurs, many of whom asked for a quick conversation to discuss their ideas.

Once you start asking catalytic questions, genuine conversation takes you down all kinds of roads; you're acquiring insights you wouldn't hear otherwise even in superficial small talk.

Either way, Holmes's comment, and the conversations I've had with female venture capitalists and entrepreneurs since then, reminded me that there are a slew of terribly accomplished female entrepreneurs out there, but we don't hear much about them.

Participants on both sides of a conversation can talk and hear simultaneously.

BCG also put plenty of soundproofing throughout the building, so people can't hear from one room into another and meetings aren't interrupted by noisy phone conversations.

Staying in the Spotlight: Keep Your Ear to the Ground and Join the Conversation Most of the time, Stratten says, you can hear the 15 minutes of fame before they happen.

Most of us have heard the term, and most smart businesses have added checks and balances to their processes to try to overcome confirmation bias — for example, by making sure that their business is structured to allow the open flow of information between executives and those close to whatever problem is being addressed, or by including designated naysayers in the conversation around a decision.

It's easy to get sidetracked thinking of the things that need to be accomplished, but giving employees your undivided attention during conversations and meetings ensures that you really hear what they say.

«Something that I've been hearing a lot from folks who have been coming up to me and talking about a kind of experience they've had where they're having a conversation with friends — not on the phone, just talking.

Every time you hear or see a number in a conversation or even in a bit of advertising, take a moment to work with the number and see what it means.

«Last time, we had about 150 people in attendance and one of the suggestions that we heard that resonated was that we need to broaden the conversation,» Pitasky said.

Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.

That spring, before anyone had ever heard of Satoshi Nakamoto or Bitcoin, Mr. Szabo revived his bit gold idea on his personal blog, and in an online conversation about creating a live version of the virtual currency, he asked his readers: «Anybody want to help me code one up?»

From conversations with more than a dozen Uber staff across various countries and management levels, TechCrunch has heard that many in the workforce are uneasy at the prospect of joining Grab.

The summit sessions and informal conversations provided an excellent opportunity to hear from a variety of corporate executives on why they are increasing their use of contingent labor, especially through the use of online talent marketplaces like Upwork.

But at a high level, I think it's important to focus on those underlying drivers because much of the conversation that you hear is just about price, where is it going, and these underlying drivers are lost very often.

We engaged in conversations with several women founders and VCs across the US to learn more about their experiences, both good and bad, and to hear what ideas they had for increasing the amount of capital going to women - founded companies.

And that's why it's so depressing when I hear some of the stupid things people in a selling position say when beginning conversations with prospects.

Join three of today's most knowledgeable experts to hear about how health technology systems are influencing well - being through data collection, analytics and improved services, in what promises to be a provocative and productive conversation.

Update: On page 51 of the filing, which is a transcript of a conversation between Hogan and current defendant and alleged Hogan blackmailer Keith Davidson, Davidson says that he heard Bubba «the Love Sponge» Clem and his wife Heather Clem, the woman in the Hogan sex tape, met someone named «Petraeus at a swingers party and it is rumored they have video.»

This is your chance to hear from and talk with them in both a structured atmosphere of frank discussion and high - octane idea exchange and network in a more relaxed social setting of genial conversation.

This doesn't have to be a long, heartfelt conversation, in case you're worried your kid brother is just going to start bringing up bands you've never heard of with names like «Nightmares of Fallen Empires.»

Funny enough, I'd been listening to a series of messages that fit with a particular conversation I'd heard, and I started telling him about those as well.

And as I wait for the whisper of the Spirit in the silence, I can't help but hear «El Gringo» in the conversations.

Double points if this higher being can have an actual conversation with you instead of you hearing his voice in your head.

The screen goes black, and from the speakers you begin to hear the sounds of a meal in progress — the clink of utensils, the murmur of conversation.

I have heard thousands of prayers in prayer meetings that are genuine, heart - felt, meaningful, conversations with God about Who He is, what He has done, and how we would like Him to help us live life and serve Him better.

When I hear that there is no room for God in the whole «mental health» debate, I want to remind those people of something that I think is one of the key issues at the center of this whole conversation: God loves people in their humanity and we are to do the same of one another.

Since some of these people have never heard a former pastor and seminary student praise them for «leaving the church,» this often launches us into a conversation about Jesus and religion.

The echo of the Word could be heard in conversations into the evening.

The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

Whether in private conversation, group discussion, a sermon or a speech, or in the interaction within the community, the question is whether there is, on the one side, conviction about what the gospel means and, on the other side, unqualified readiness to hear the other people and see the world from their point of view.

Anyway, back to the conversation I heard in the store, I wanted to tell this guy who was proud of his «stand for Christ» that just because people hate you for what you say doesn't mean that you are standing for Christ.

It is not at all uncommon to hear Christians have conversations full of mumbo jumbo and Christian jargon.

Unless you are a deep, personal friend of someone's and feel called to to enter into a deep, vulnerable conversation with them, never say this, even if you've heard them joke about it from time to time.

I hear so many stories of amazing conversations that have been initiated simply by a copy of my book sitting on the coffee table.

And you were too busy steering the conversation toward the Lord / to hear the voice of the Spirit, begging you to shut the f — up.