Sentences with phrase «of small conversations»

He was only 2.5 or so, at most, and I do remember that it wasn't so much of a Single Big Announcement as a long series of smaller conversations about something way too abstract for him to fully understand.

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Given how small and intimate our gathering is, I'm afraid it has to be invitation - only (and space is truly limited), but if you want to be a part of what I'm guessing will be a mind - opening two days of conversation, thought, and interaction, we'd love to have you apply.

And in conversations with a few of the key players at HMS and the filmmakers, I gained insight into how your small business should approach this kind of opportunity.

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Perhaps company policies could include 45 - minute lunch breaks, since American researchers found that this length of time spent in substantive conversation — not small talk — fosters a sense of closeness between mere acquaintances.

The benefit of a small company in an office climate is you can sort of eavesdrop on conversations to see if there's any conflicts and understand the culture that you're in.

For a smaller staff, the act of properly letting go of an employee isn't limited to a single, private conversation with the person leaving, but must also include a discussion with the remaining team members.

«Our conversations with investors certainly indicated a «have» and «have not» view of media stocks domestically, with [bigger companies](the Haves) able to leverage their large breadth of content into something near full carriage on emerging distribution packages like YouTube TV, perhaps at the expense of the Have Not [small to medium companies],» RBC analyst Steven Cahall wrote in a note to clients Monday.

As Shawn Callahan, author of Putting Stories to Work, explains these «small stories» are the anecdotes concerning real - life experiences that people tell every day in conversations.

The first five minutes of a conversation at a networking event usually involve introductions and polite small talk.

On the day Plus launched, I noted an Ads product manager named Paul Adams in close conversation with Zuckerberg and a couple of members of the high command inside a small conference room.

To figure this out psychologist Matthias Mehl came up with a clever way to track the impact of our conversations on our mood: his team wired up participants with a small recording device that captured snippets of their conversations every 12.5 minutes over four days.

«Mehl and his team found that the happiest person in the study had twice as many substantive conversations, and only one - third the amount of small talk, as the unhappiest person,» reports author Jenn Granneman on Psychology Today.

It took a year of big town hall meetings, small working sessions, and internal conversations on Workplace by Facebook to find the answer.

Not only will this help you stay informed, it will give you plenty of material for casual conversation with colleagues and small talk before meetings.

Along the way, they've helped thousands of female technologists find a voice in a male - dominated industry and opened the conversation about inequities, large and small, woven into the fabric of the tech industry.

So I think part of what's happening both in our conversations and what's happening in the Valley is a bridging between the best of the small companies and the best of the large companies.

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.

«I've repeated patterns in my life,» he said cryptically as we settled into a small conference room for the first in a series of long conversations.

A few small changes in your mindset and approach can help you decrease your anxiety and increase your chances of having a conversation you're proud of.

Our testing has shown that doing this in moderation for just a small number of stories can lead to more conversations between people and their friends on all types of content.»

«I think there is a lot of cautious optimism from small businesses and the entrepreneurs we are talking to about the ease of identifying potential investors and utilizing modern communications technology, email and social networking tools to start the conversation with potential investors.

Entrepreneurs like Horn and Wallace and investors like Horowitz and Schreier are among a small, but growing subset of the start - up community who are elevating the conversation around healthy entrepreneurship.

This episode of Chris Farrell's «Conversations on the Creative Economy» series comes from that craft district, featuring three people who founded small businesses in Duluth.

The purpose of this sentence is simply to pull people in to a sales conversation by creating a very small foundation on which to build.

You will never be able to handle all the off - script requests — hence the interest to manage the misunderstanding of your chatbot — but you will be able to add as you go along the small talks that you will find in conversations with your users

To learn more about these new trading features and some more about the exchange, Bitcoinist had a small conversation with Jaron Lukasiewicz, the Chief Executive Officer of Coinsetter:

«People on TV news shows spoke significantly fewer sentences about Hurricane Maria than about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma,» he writes, and «the spike in conversation about Puerto Rico right as the hurricane hit was also much smaller than the spike in mentions of Texas and Florida.»

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However easy it is to demonize and to hate from a distance (I won't provide links, but, trust me, the demonization and the hate was quite evident online), it's a bit harder to do so in the context of a small college, where habits of conversation are encouraged, where people talk the talk (even if — sinners as we all are — we don't always walk the walk) of fairminded openness to the truth, and where Others (not «The Other,» which, as a colleague rightly suggested, is too abstract) are people we encounter day in and day out.

We offer merely an interim report on our process and program with the hope of making a small contribution to a conversation that is taking place in many schools.

And then there is a small contingent of us who approach this conversation from a unique vantage point — we are in a heterosexual marriage with someone who does not entirely identify as heterosexual.

It's a small thing in the scheme of things, I know, but it loomed large for our little family and was the source of much conversation.

We get some sense of that variety in the Psalms, where we learn how capacious is the conversation to which we are invited by an infinite God, who is inexplicably interested in our small selves.

Though this interchange was a small part of Konigsberg's story, the words provoked an uproar from the league, the fans and the media, and it renewed a public conversation about Christian anti-Judaism.

If I am in casual conversation with someone I hardly know, I might, in the course of making small talk, mention something about my wife.

As I read this prayer, it almost sounds as if the prayer is a small part of a much longer conversation He has been having with God for a very long time.

We belonged to a fledgling conversation group that met on Saturday mornings over cups of coffee in the upper room of a small café.

A relatively small number of thoughtful letters or conversations may have a significant influence on the quality of what is published.

Eugene's small number of Christians (it has the fewest churches for a city its size in America) know the church, as do the colorful assortment of folks who stop by for pizza, coffee, books or conversation.

These are the things I remind myself of when enduring conversations that start off as small talk and turn to the dangerous territory of statements that stab you right between your heart and your unanswered prayers.

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

This exchange was carried on in numerous meetings, large and small, formally sponsored by Religion and Public Life as well as over informal lunches and dinners and drinks» a conversation among socially and politically and religiously passionate scholars and clergymen and even, sometimes, among the staff during the meetings at which we decided on the contents of the next issue of the magazine.

Here's a small portion of that conversation.

A well - known deconstructionist scholar, while visiting Tokyo, met with a small group of English - speaking Christian theologians for an evening of conversation in which he argued that God is obviously dead.

And I have no doubt Mark would be severely disappointed in my typical airplane conversations, which involve a bit of small talk at takeoff («where you coming from?»

At the time of his conviction, I wrote a small essay about my friendship with Scooter ¯ others knew him better, but we had a genuine literary friendship, free from the politics that infects too much conversation in America these days.

George's reasons for missing his comeback are eerily similar to some of the reasons I miss critical spiritual conversations, especially in the context of my small group.

We talked about our frustration with the institution of the church, how we could work together, what he does, and what Shema does — it was a very transparent and mutually beneficial conversation — all sparked by a small email.

«InTents Conference brings all of these groups together to spark conversation, network and compare notes on ways for micro-entrepreneurs and small businesses to launch a project at a market, maintain a profit and grow in an encouraging space.»