Sentences with phrase «of the best things people»

I personally would never own a slave simply because today's culture says it is wrong and I can't think of a good thing a person could use a slave for today

«One of the best things people with schizophrenia could do is exercise and eat better,» he says.

I could make a film about any person or organization and only interview the people that hate you or it with no inclusion of the good things a person or organization does and present it as a documentary and you know what people would believe you're entirely evil and you know why?

Though getting a college degree is one of the best things people can do for themselves, it doesn't come without a price.

One of the best things people say after a teeny, tour of our house is that it feels «big.»

... there is so much we can do, and I am so happy to read all of the good things people are doing.

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One of the best things it does is help hire great people.»

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.

I think at the root of everything being better now is that I don't judge things by a young person's values.

Regardless of what people think of you at any particular moment, one thing is certain — you're never as good or bad as they say you are.

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.

And how about this uplifting message from Jagmeet Singh after he won the leadership of the New Democratic Party on the weekend: «At a time when people are feeling so despondent, when there is a lack of hope, when it feels like things will only get worse before they get better, Canadians must stand united and champion a politics of courage to fight the politics of fear.»

People spend a lot of time thinking about good things that didn't happen, but might have done.

Don't always believe what is said: Often people say things with the best of intent, but what they do matters more than what they say.

«Because Prezi has a spatial element to it, instead of separating out things on slides, you actually place things in a spatial relativity, and because of that people understand and retain the information better.»

You can tell the person sitting in front of you is an ace interviewer (a good thing, no doubt) because of his or her flawless performance, but you get the distinct impression that this isn't the whole story.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Creating a network of smart, ambitious people to share knowledge with is one of the best things you can do for your business.

Everyone knows that Travis is not coming back; still, Benchmark said a lot of nasty things about TK and is now sitting back and watching other people try to convince them that the best thing to do «for all concerned» would be to sell out.

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.

A lot of people think that negotiating means simply trying to get a better price on things, but that's very naive — there is a lot more to it than that.

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

«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.

I know a number of extremely successful people, and while in many ways they're very different, they all share one thing in common: They're exceptionally good at persuading other people.

I also recommend finding out if there are people with whom you can partner who have a certain level of expertise to do the things that you're not necessarily the best at or don't particularly enjoy.

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.

Perhaps not my best line of poetry, but I wanted these people to stop seeing all the things that are hard and start seeing things that are great and helping others see them too.

«What it has to do with is the fact that the person is not humble enough to accept responsibility when things go wrong, accept that there might be better ways to do things, and they just have a closed mind,» says Jocko Willink, coauthor of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.

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.

People share a lot of information, and if you take the time to listen to what they are saying, you will be in the best possible position to have meaningful conversations with the right people, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that mPeople share a lot of information, and if you take the time to listen to what they are saying, you will be in the best possible position to have meaningful conversations with the right people, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that mpeople, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that moment.

Hundreds of people doing cool and interesting things in New York tech came for cocktails, good food, and great company.

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

But if such a person can't work well in teams or lacks integrity («doing the right thing»), you're merely stuck with a talented jerk to the detriment of the team.

As for her assertion that newcomers should find the process rewarding enough to brave an intimidating tableau of wires and capacitors and diodes, well, just think about how some people claim to love assembling IKEA furniture: the careful laying out of the parts, painstaking examination of instructions, a few false starts and, ultimately, the satisfaction of things slotting into place as the final product takes shape.

It's good to give employees these options because «one thing you don't want to do is require people to report only to their supervisors, because unfortunately that may be the person who they have a complaint about,» says Lisa Guerin, an attorney specializing in employment law and the author of The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations: How to Handle Employee Complaints & Problems.

People who see the election of Trump as a good thing will, because of confirmatory thinking, be more and more likely to see things as getting better.

According to Sandberg, even though there are jobs that require a certain level of experience, she's found that «people with great skills can do more things well.»

It's an important thing for people to understand because I think, especially today, a lot of people — we don't want to be a boring person, like we really want to be interesting people and have interesting lives but the problem is that, that conflicts with what makes a relationship good in a lot of cases.

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.»

You are much better off to give your potential hire actual questions to answer — things you don't expect them to know but which will show if, in fact, there is what you are looking for between the ears of the person you are considering hiring!

All young people can do is base their options on what the current health - care rules are today, said Carolyn McClanahan, both a certified financial planner and an M.D. «The number one thing young people need to do is continue to scream at the politicians to get some good health legislative policy in place,» said McClanahan, founder and director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners.

So I had a rule that we do the opposite: we moved a lot of our best people to the new thing.

Some good books to start with are Deep Work, Getting Things Done, Eat That Frog, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Power of Habit and The Miracle Morning.

Similarly, a YouGov poll for The Times found that 53 % of people thing Theresa May has responded «well» to the attempted assassination of the former Russian spy.

«I think that's one of the reasons why this product has been so successful, because there are few things more rewarding than watching people taste it for the first time and say: «Oh, this is really good.»»

If you have a group of people with different perspectives around the table, you are going to end up in a better place, in decisions you make and in things you decide to invest in.

Self - awareness allows people to recognize what things they do best so they can then go hard on those aspects of their life.

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.