Sentences with phrase «of hearing these things»

They have to face several remarks from the people and eventually they get tired of hearing these things.

I have kind of heard some things through the grapevine there is going to be some big third - party announcements for Nintendo's new console at the show, there's no doubt about that.

Don't get so caught up in taking photos that you miss out on the fun of hearing things go bang and smelling gunpowder.

That allows for the often - discussed virtue of hearing things you've never noticed in previous listens to your favorite tracks, from the rogue buzz of a guitar amp, to a quiet vocal double that's never surfaced before.

Not exact matches

As an entrepreneur, I hear a lot of things said about good design: Good design is simple.

I've heard it said that the thing that separates humans from the other great apes (beyond opposable thumbs and better haircuts) is our capacity to delay near - term gratification in pursuit of a superior downstream payoff.

The best thing I can say about your interactions with most of the media today is the advice I heard long ago about why it makes no sense to wrestle with a pig.

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

«Worst thing I ever heard of,» snarled an 87 - year - old man who had been a dedicated fan of the team, formerly known as the Rock Cats.

Mojio You've probably heard of car insurance companies that install technology on vehicles to monitor things like how often you use the car, how fast you drive, etc..

«I've heard other people talk about this thing called the curse of knowledge,» he explains.

I remember one pitch where Katia and I did the whole thing, it was all men around the table, and then we'd leave and look at each other and realized that we honestly could've been saying anything and the only thing they heard come out of our mouths was «lip gloss, lip gloss, lip gloss.»

Yet because she brings up things that management doesn't want to hear or deal with, they've now made her the black sheep of the organization, and as a result no one wants to listen.

Over the course of the day, I got the opportunity to hear from these influential speakers - here are the ten best things I heard.

In April 2016, Sessions said during a Senate hearing on drugs that the country needs «grownups» in charge who send the message that «marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized.»

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.

To hear Herbalife tell it, the FTC settlement was one of the best things to ever happen to the company, pushing it to make what new CEO Richard Goudis called «the most significant advancement of our business,» by forcing it to develop the ability to better track distributors and sales.

In all, Consumer Reports reached out to 17 automakers to find out, among other things, how often they've heard from their customers about exploding sunroofs, whether they've detected any telling patterns, and if they would support a standard of glass that would make shatterings less likely.

Certainly, I've heard others refer to «how things used to be» but it is definitely not the Amazon of today.»

You hear variations on this theme constantly: Perfect is the enemy of done; move fast and break things; launch it now and fix it later.

She's been doing her thing for decades and now we are hearing of all the amazing things she did privately along the way as well.

Does it mean: «People can't wait to hear the next thing that comes out of my brain?»

Not only can it open you up to ideas or people you've never even heard of, it also introduces you to new ways of thinking about things.

I once had to present in front of a bunch of investors who had just heard from a Nobel Laureate who was trying to cure cancer, and I was up next talking about funny things on the internet.

One thing you won't hear him championing is the unfettered rise of artificial intelligence, which he once described as the «biggest existential threat» to humankind.

In 1910, when the average life expectancy was 49 years, most Americans had never heard of things like calories, proteins, or carbohydrates.

I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

How often did you hear things such as «Don't talk to strangers,» «It is better to be seen, not heard,» and maybe the worst yet, «that person is out of your league.»

It's the kind of thing you hear about a lot in professions like law, which used to be dominated by men but aren't as much anymore.

«While over the years we'd heard some of those accusations and we heard there were a couple of settlements, it didn't seem to be the kind of thing that was critical mass,» he said.

One thing is for sure, there are more hosting companies out there than I have even heard of!

If there are two things marketers and advertising people have heard and talked about ad nauseam over the last few years, it's the importance of social media engagement and the increasing value of live sports on TV.

With a story of that magnitude, the last thing the nearly two billion users want to hear is crickets.

Hearing our CEO speak about these things is really inspirational, because he really believes that this is a huge part of PayPal.

Give him a warning first: «I do not want to hear negative things about any of your coworkers.

«This is a wake - up call to Silicon Valley and the tech community that if you let these things get out of hand, having grown up in a very lightly regulated environment, you could end up with a lot more regulation than you seek, he said after the hearing.

One of the best ways to get followers is to post things others want to read; don't let the first time followers hear from you be, «Hi, please back my crowdfunding campaign.»

You've probably heard the phrase «Internet of Things» or «IoT» by now, and its applications are staggering in the business world.

«There's an emotional thing when you get a pretty ominous - looking letter from the IRS, [saying] you might have done bad things,» Tom Reese, owner of a hearing - aid retailer in Tennessee, told the Journal.

«I tried opening some retail accounts,» Knight says, «but most of them thought Japanese track shoes were the funniest thing they'd ever heard of.

I am sure you are entirely shocked to hear that there wasn't a lot of demand for this type of furniture (this was before hipsters became a thing), so my dad had to be resourceful.

But if you worked at GE at that time and heard Welch speak, he would have focused over and over again on just three things: globalize the business, drive service and recurring revenues, and improve quality throughout the company by embracing the discipline of six sigma.

You know that annoying thing that happens when you have a million tabs open and you hear a video playing in one of them but can't figure out where it is?

Seriously, that is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard in my entire career, and that's saying a lot because I've been around a long time.

You Have to Watch Out for Yourself It's one of the first things they tell you in business school and you hear it for the rest of your work life: Your role in management is to enhance shareholder value.

«The biggest thing we heard from customers was that their voice and conferencing software was not easy to use, clunky, and expensive and no one tool works for all tasks,» Gene Farrell, AWS vice president of enterprise applications tells Fortune.

I interviewed the founders of Officenet for my article — along with many others — and heard much the same thing.

By now, we've heard a lot of troubling things about Donald Trump, but that one's shocking.

And part of both of those things — creating value and communicating better — means that we are also focused on hearing from creators about how we can help them, how we can create new tools that use our platform to help them find new fans, connect with those fans, learn about their audiences, get them to live shows, and more.

The «buy American» thing is just a special case of the more general plea we often hear to «support your local economy.»