Sentences with phrase «of making things better»

It's all with the intent of making things better, but before we get to the better place, we're going to spend an uncomfortable few months (or longer) in a fragmented market where you'll have to do diligent research to make sure your next pair of headphones works with all the devices you already own.

You need to push so that your daughter still has the hope of making things better.

Jim Lovelock, Lenton's mentor and friend, was extolling this as a possible way of making things better in New Scientist last week, speaking to the in - this - case - aptly - named Gaia Vince.

The hand drawn type and illustrations emphasise the journey of the ingredients and reinforce the philosophy of making things better by hand.

Nintendo has a way of making things better than they seem and I'm curious what their original goals were.

Instead of making things better, it apparently caused more issues.

So, 2014 was the year of making things better, not bigger.

These results are a preliminary «snapshot of where institutions are in the process of making things better for postdocs,» says Lakoski.

They definitely need to be extremely motivated and dedicated, with the personal intention of making things better.

«Humanists who do not believe in God or a future life have been in a stronger position to insist on the urgency of making things better at once, in this [life]... If this is the only life that anybody has, then the fact that many people must spend it in such misery becomes more obviously and inexcusably scandalous.

Not exact matches

Some of the things that made T'Challa [the film's main character] a good leader were that he wasn't afraid to empower the people that worked with him, and he was somebody who kind of gathers information from everybody.

«Obviously we both have a very fun time together, both have a very good sense of humor about things, we're down to earth, we take the mickey out of each other a lot, and she's got plenty of habits that make me laugh that I tease her about,» Prince William said during their engagement.

The objective is to give things that both commemorate the occasion and hopefully make their lives easier and better going forward because of your gesture.

An Amazon Prime membership is one of those things that immediately makes life easier and better.

«What I learned when I went broke was no matter how good things look, make sure your capitalization is such that you can tolerate some kind of violent swing,» he says.

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.

If any good could come out of all of this, she told me, it would be to spread the word and making sure people know one simple thing: Pets should never be placed in an overhead bin on an airplane.

That leaves the U.S. Federal Reserve the best part of a year to widen the gap between U.S. and Eurozone interest rates still further, a trend that will make the dollar more attractive vis - a-vis the euro (all other things being equal).

While the emerging field of neuromarketing seeks to address this issue by peering directly into the brain, there are things we can do easily and cheaply to make sure we're not reacting just to consumers» conscious minds, but to their unconscious as well.

In the wake of Kikito's distressing death, we're collectively forgetting other incidents in which extreme deference to pets aboard airplanes might well have actually made things worse.

While there are a lot of things you can't plan for, there were certainly a few big traps that I could have avoided in my journey had I made better decisions.

The agreements — don't gossip, don't take things personally, don't make assumptions, and do your best — help me start from a rational position of trying to understand the issue at hand, without bringing any negative mental baggage that may come along naturally if I weren't aware of them.

You can also think of this model similar to how Dan Sullivan of the Strategic Coach talks about how you need to spend most of your time doing the things you are best at and enjoy doing that you can also make money doing.

Oh, the company must be nostalgic for those times, when the only things journalists discussed were the company's huge profits and its ability to make anyone's butt look good in a pair of yoga pants.

While it's never a good idea to bet against Mother Nature or gravity, the good news is that many of the things most likely to bring your business down are man - made and sometimes the product of your own actions or — more likely - inactions.

And while having some flexibility is a good thing, don't turn the option of changing your direction into a way to make excuses.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

They are Social Currency (e.g., sharing things that make people look good), Triggers (acknowledging that we talk about things that are top - of - mind), Emotion, Public (imitating what we see others do), Practical Value (news people can use) and Stories (information passed along under the guise of idle chitchat).

And, without realizing it was happening, learning to memorize a deck of cards helped me develop techniques that make me a lot better at remembering the names and faces of people I meet — as well as a bunch of other things.

We're now in counseling together because his demons plus my demons make for difficult communication sometimes, and he hates every minute of it, but he's doing it (so am I) and things are getting better.

It's not so much a case of being instructed as it is one of needing to be regularly reminded that (a) nothing good happens by itself and (b) you are the person primarily responsible for making the right things happen.

Whereas if we ask ourselves how could we do this in 20 percent of the time, it will make us look at things completely differently which could help us find an alternative or better solution.

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.

«But when the price is $ 50 a barrel instead of $ 100, well, we've got to go figure out how were going to make things work.»

That is the No. 1 most important thing in building a company, as I truly believe a company is only as good as what is made up of.»

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

A clear summary of your points is possibly the best thing you can do to not just deliver value to the reader, but also make the book memorable, which helps you sell more books.

He mentioned three specific things that, upon closer look at the literature, make up the best of servant - leaders:

There could also be more work done in material science, and trying to gain a better understanding of things that already exist naturally in the environment and of how to potentially make better use of them.

One of the best things about podcasts is they, much like Google Alerts, make the intake of information passive.

«People often want to make themselves look better or avoid the trouble of explanations, and they put a spin on things.»

But there's good news: Some of the things that might make you especially attractive to them are things you can actually change.

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.

That's one of the best things about exercise: it puts your mind in contact with your body and makes them whole.

I have constraints in that I have to meet quarterly numbers, which is a good thing — it's certainly good discipline — but it's a bad thing as well because if I wanted to invest, for instance, a $ 100 million to just make my brand name more accepted for two quarters and in the third quarter I'll get traction, that's not an option I would consider without a lot of pull.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, is poised to make good on its promise to slash the cost of launching things into space.

«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.»

One of the best things about modern markets is that they punish prejudice, and make it more difficult.

Researching is the key to providing clarity you're making the right decision in opening a business, some of the best things happen when the time is right.

That kind of consultation makes things better for a lot of reasons.»