Sentences with phrase «often only a person»

He compared it to the concept of «face» in China — essentially, preserving one's reputation — and pointed out that often the only people an entrepreneur knows in Vegas are venture capitalists and other struggling founders.

I like then to point to a linguistic irony: I am often the only person in the room whose very denomination has «evangelical» in the title and whose confessional tradition was «evangelical» in dictionary senses (gospel - centered, German - Lutheran or Reformed, mainstream Protestant) before the Newsweek version was patented in America.

Each episode involved various supernatural phenomena, including ghosts and monsters, which were often only a person in costume.

Mitchell sometimes reflected on this success during business meetings, where he was often the only person of color at the table — wondering why he seemed to be the exception.

«I'm often the only person who knows a thing about rural America in a room with 40 people,» says Tompkins.

Often the only people who receive copies of the directory are the others who have signed up for it.

Moreover, in states that are majority white and Christian, a person of color or foreign - born or non-Christian is often the only person like them in the room.

I stopped reading a number of blogs when I realized that although I was often the only person who commented on many blog posts, some authors couldn't even take the time to acknowledge that I was commenting.

Not exact matches

Scarcely any Chinese person under the age of 40 goes a day without using WeChat, and they often leave home with only their smartphone, since there's no need to carry a wallet.

We've all met those over aggressive networking people who only care about themselves and hand out business cards and compliments as often as they blink.

However, it's actually only a 45 minute train ride away from Shanghai ($ 2.0 trillion)- and people that work in Shanghai often have homes here as it is considered more scenic.

This Peter / Paul conundrum is interesting: we very often see examples where people have paid off their credit cards using available lines of credit, only to have their credit card balances swell back to where they were within a year or so.

He was groomed from an early age to play golf, and was often younger than his competition, and the only person of color on the field.

But something funny happened: years later, most people only remembered the stories I told — often times, in vivid detail.

The truth is, most people care very little about how often you failed or how long it took you to arrive at success but rather only care about what you succeeded at — period.

Often people think that the only way that things will improve at the office is if something external changes.

Quite honestly, the podcasters who start out only in a «studio» often end up abandoning the idea because it's too hard to get into that studio (and it's too hard to get people to visit you in the studio).

«Often, that's the only part that most people will ever read, and of that, the opening sentence is the most important portion,» he says.

Most people in the sector only work part - time and often have no indication from week to week whether they'll mostly be on site in the morning, evening or the middle of the day.

«The readability and visualization of the data your BI collects is not only advantageous for your tech team, but often times the reports that the BI summary creates will need to be seen by other people - executives, future vendors, investors, etc.,» points out SelectHub, a service for enterprise software product evaluation.

Often, people see life only through their eyes, which creates animosity, derails objectivity and deters loyalty.

Our research shows that only 36 % of people can do this, which is problematic because unlabeled emotions often go misunderstood, which leads to irrational choices and counterproductive actions.

Often, whether a child was adopted or born to one of the parties, only one person in the relationship has legal parental rights even if both are raising the child.

But the problem is we often hear people say they are humbled, only to act the opposite.

Cohen agrees: «You often force the other person to talk, if only out of discomfort» — and that person is likely to revise his or her position and reveal useful information in the process.

I often chuckle at the people who show up five minutes before and are forced to leave because the only seats left are in the front row.

Often people are blind to their own abilities or potential, and good leaders not only recognize these latent strengths, they help develop them.

Since I surround myself with adventurous people and feed my brain with a lot of curious indulgences, it only makes sense that I like to travel often, even though I don't possess the sexy - sounding «wanderlust gene.»

It was a lovely compliment, but I found that people were often very insistent that teaching was the only way for me to go — even after I told them that my interests didn't lie with education.

Or, surprisingly often, to connect employees in the same office — which makes it quite possible that there are people walking around the Johnson & Johnson building who only know one another as avatars.

The report estimates that out of the 630,000 people held in jail, only 187,000 have been convicted of a crime, which is most often a misdemeanor that does not warrant time in prison.

I'd often chuckle while watching people try to flip pages on previous Kindles by swiping the screen, only to see nothing happen.

When people think about estate planning and what will happen to their assets after they're gone, they often only worry...

Often people don't like to be the only person writing a check so they'll try to find safety in numbers by investing other angels to look at the the deal and «see what they think.»

Real breaking - news events happened only every so often, and people lost interest in them quickly; more quickly than ever, in fact, now that there was so much else to distract them.

Often, in these cases, the only people who make any money are the ones selling these would - be business magnates the tools they need to get started -LSB-...]

At the same time, this is often the only choice for people who are short of cash and face an emergency.

What I find incredible about Thorp's example is not only that maximized his understanding and beat the market, but that he avoided the quackery and hubris that can so often bedevil people who have ventured so far from the average.

«People often think financial planning is only for the wealthy, but budgeting, taxes, investments, insurance and estate planning affect everyone.»

Everyone from corporate clients to people with smaller cases want the best value, and many boutique firms have earned a reputation for not only providing quality legal service, but also for being able to provide a personal touch that is often lacking with giant national firms.

In a dichotomous way of looking at the problem, many people either side with private blockchains as useful for industry or public blockchains, like Ethereum and Bitcoin, as being the only innovative technology in this space, often calling private blockchains «distributed ledgers» to differentiate them as, simply, decentralized databases, and not blockchains at all.

Whether or not Boz believed what he wrote, the memo matters because it highlights what people outside Silicon Valley often fear about Silicon Valley: That big tech companies don't actually care about the people who use their services, only that those people serve as data points that help tech companies grow.

He rose to top compensation, averaging over $ 25,000.00 per engagement throughout 30 years, often earning over $ 100,000.00 per speech, delivering over 3,000 compensated speeches and seminars, and for 9 consecutive years he was the only speaker with Zig Ziglar appearing on all 25 to 27 SUCCESS Events a year... to audiences of 15,000 to 35,000 people.

It is true that people often believe things for bad reasons — self - deception, wishful thinking, and a wide variety of other cognitive biases really do cloud our thinking — but bad reasons only tend to work when they are unrecognized.

Often the assumption, actually or perceieved, is that people of faith are either dumb, in psuedo - intential denial, or just on the road that will eventually lead to unbelief (usually only because many atheists are assuming others will «progress» only along the same path they did).

The statte much consider ALL the people whereas the religions often consider only their own people.

Those in heroin's grip often say: «There are only two kinds of people — the ones I get money from and the ones I give money to.»

There are only (often contradictory) stories written down long after the supposed events took place by people in your cult who are obviously biased and have ulterior motives.

Hitler is often credited with the deaths of millions, but in point of fact the only person he ever killed during the time the Nazis ruled Germany was himself.

People often are mean and nasty, but justify it because they are only «speaking the truth.»