By trying to do
some of the things we imagine God should be doing, God is actually doing those things through us!
This is the kind
of thing I imagine being foisted on literary readers by those who would defend flash fiction as something that appeals to the short attention span.
Uninvited guests are seriously the worst; good thing there's a guy that you can call for that sort
of thing Imagine a future in which aliens have most definitely...
Not exact matches
I
imagine most executives could say the same, but if you don't take the time to recognize those
things, you risk your team taking them for granted... creating the monster
of ingratitude.
Whereas I
imagine most
of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked
things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest
of my career.
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.
«It was the most rickety, Podunk
thing you can
imagine,» says the former employee, likening it to the treacherous labyrinthine underworld in Indiana Jones and the Temple
of Doom.
One
of her favorite variations on «the vision
thing» is to
imagine the characteristics
of the hypothetical company that would put her out
of business tomorrow.
Once the creation cap is reached and there are just a bunch
of morons passing these digital chits around, it's hard to
imagine why anyone would pay up for these
things any longer.
You
imagine all
of the horrible
things that are going to happen as a result
of this news or incident.
Instead, what my boss saw was a black woman who had made a dubious request for time off to attend a distant relative's funeral and was now sitting next to a box
of things he couldn't possibly
imagine her needing.
Of course, if
things are awkward now,
imagine how they'll get when Kleiner and the individual partners named in the lawsuit file their response.
«I will never stop making
things and
imagining cool and trippy
things for those girls, and that will become a bigger part
of what we do,» she says.
When asked about his longer - term strategy for Hitachi, the chief executive said: «Listen to all
of the people's opinions, not only internal but also external opinions [and]
imagine [how
things will be like] five years later.
«The big challenge is that the level
of computer power that one
of these
things needs is pretty high,» Wilcove says, adding that as the market evolves, he can
imagine a communications app for far - flung business meetings «where you're all virtually sitting around the table in different locations with one
of these headsets on, James Bond - style.»
That's a good
thing in many ways, but I can
imagine companies will need to train employees on how all
of these apps and services tie together.
As you can
imagine, we learned quite a few fun
things about each half
of the power couple during the revealing exchange, which took place at Betsy Layne High School in Eastern Kentucky.
Those participants who were assigned to a high - rank condition were told a few
things to get them in the right frame
of mind such as «
imagine that they had a strong alternative offer,» that they had «valuable inside information,» that they had «high status in the workplace,» or to remember a time when they had power.
In Song's opinion, there are two kinds
of entrepreneurs: people who build a startup because they're passionate about a specific business — a desire to create the world's largest cold - pressed juice empire, say, or a sudden insight that betting on video games is the future
of fantasy sports — and people who are entrepreneurs because that's just the only
thing they can
imagine doing.
And when the revised version
of the bonus lottery comes out — the airline tried to get rid
of the employees» regular bonus in favor
of a lottery in which only a few would win — do you
imagine things will be better or worse?
I know at the beginning
of your 20s it's difficult to
imagine you have decades ahead to invest in all these different
things, but I'm telling you that you have decades ahead to invest in all these different
things.
So it's just about the rarest
thing imaginable for a car designer to be able to
imagine a new vehicle without feeling the explicit burden
of the past.
CB: We've spent most
of this conversation talking about new
things, but I
imagine that the Big Mac and French fries are still the core
of your business.
Imagine what Bachelard might say we dream
of when we dream in our self - storage lockers, the rectangular, padlocked, infinitely uniform spaces where we are increasingly stowing our
things.
«I was fifteen years old,» Sotomayor writes, «when I understood how it is that
things break down: people can't
imagine someone else's point
of view.»
Imagine my surprise when I looked in detail at the goals and targets and saw how much they appear just the
thing for the United States
of America.
The first reaction is typically one
of perplexity, confusion and bewilderment all mixed into one as they try to
imagine how jumping out
of planes and blowing
things up gets stale, but it does.
But today, paying off student debt is one
of the most exciting
things that millennials can
imagine.
In terms
of coordination, can we
imagine putting a greater focus on self - organisation and collective wisdom, rather than bureaucratic rules and procedures, as a way
of getting
things done?
«These super-fast, ultra-low latency, high - capacity networks will enable breakthrough applications for consumers, smart cities, and the Internet
of Things that can not even be
imagined today,» the White House said in a statement.
At the risk
of reducing one
of the most influential visionaries
of our generation to a caricature, I can
imagine that Jobs was all
of those
things, at least to a degree.
Perhaps the quirkiest aspect
of the Hesburger brand is its expansion into the hotel and carwash industries (
imagine if McDonald's did the same
thing).
«All
of the terrible
things that one could
imagine a state - owned enterprise doing after it acquired a Canadian firm can be addressed through regulations that apply to all companies,» suggests Woo.
The question that you need to be asking yourselves is not simply how do I use some
of these new - fangled technologies to do my business better — how will I use these new tools to do
things for my clients and customers that I never
imagined that I could do before.
Imagine you had no legacy customers to satisfy, no assets to maintain, no dividend to pay — nothing to stop you from creating the perfect postmodern organization.What would you do?If you're a seasoned and successful chief executive like Christine Day, you just might join something that looks a little like Luvo Inc., an ambitious young company that makes,
of all
things, healthy frozen dinners.
Can you
imagine the impact
of sending an educational blog post you wrote to clear
things up for a confused customer?
I would
imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations
of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset
of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts
of nasty
things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).
«Since labor law has mostly been written for those with formal employers, we need to
imagine a world where
things are different,» says Libby Reder, a fellow at the Aspen Institute's Future
of Work Initiative.
It's good such limits are created because you can
imagine people pilfering their 401k for lots
of superfluous
things.
I'd
imagine you're probably doing the smart
thing by having a mix
of both (traditional 401k and roth IRA), but I don't know your individual situation.
You could
imagine things that, I don't know the science
of this that well, but there are early markers
of things like heart attacks and possibly there are
things people could wear that would help alert them very early.
But it's not too hard to
imagine some
of these
things that are much better at helping folks remember to take their medications, for instance, right?
«
Imagine if a celebrity like Beyoncé or someone really well known were to release ten backstage passes on the blockchain... How many millions
of people do you think would go out
of their way to acquire one
of those
things?»
«It's almost a mathematical impossibility to
imagine that, out
of the thousands
of things for sale on a given day, the most attractively priced is the one being sold by a knowledgeable seller (company insiders) to a less - knowledgeable buyer (investors).»
In a «pre-mortem,» you probably can't predict exactly what will wreck your portfolio, but you can
imagine the kinds
of things that might — and ask if you're protected against them.
«You're probably not going to predict exactly what will wreck your portfolio,» says Mr. Klein, «but you will be able to
imagine the kinds
of things that could happen.»
If you stayed the course during that time,
things worked out pretty well, because you bought at the low point
of the stock market, and you contributed more and can you
imagine that tax lot that you invested in, in March 2009, where that is right now.
You can
imagine how all
of this disconnected and incomplete data can make
things awfully difficult to handle.
Like many
of you I
imagine, I was not too interested in the Black Friday sales, the only
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Same
thing for the amount
of energy to form a universe, it's beyond anything I can
imagine, I'm blind to anything outside the realm
of energy I'm used to dealing with or seeing in use in typical daily settings, cars, homes, cities, states, etc...