Sentences with phrase «on other sticks»

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This «self - efficacy,» as psychologists refer to it, can motivate people to take on tasks that other people would deem impossible, and to stick with them even when the going gets tough.

That's because, as he explains in more detail on an October episode of his show, when you're stuck at your desk, «you're getting a lot of stimuli that you didn't ask for — like other people's conversations and phone calls.

When you go to conferences, trade shows and other events, you'll invariably be given the standard stick - on «Hi, my name is Bob» name tag.

«Ideo» was a prefix, and we toyed around with calling ourselves Ideo - Space, and other words that sounded like ideology, but IDEO stuck on its own.

In other words, what I was doing was putting the dinosaur on a diet and prodding it with a stick.

Because he wasn't getting stuck, like so many other people do when they just say I've got to keep going on, my pride, you know.

So if you're stuck deciding between PR or content marketing and focusing all your efforts on one over the other, it's time to look at what you stand to gain by aligning the two.

This is something that I believe makes all the difference of whether you can stick to a daily routine or not... Finding others who also have an interest in a great and productive routine really is probably 80 - 90 percent of what you can do to set yourself on the right track.»

On the other hand, a pattern of little failures, like a consistently unpleasant customer experience, might have stuck in customers» minds.

On the other hand, any parent who has ever woken a sleeping baby to stick a thermometer in her ear, mouth, or farther south only to log the perfectly healthy temperature of a now awake and screaming child knows that's not an ideal situation, either.

Others, in an effort to run on the cutting edge, try to implement too many new systems and get stuck trying to do it all.

If you're stuck on where to place this money, start with a 401k or other employer - based retirement plan.

In summary, instead of just being stuck as an employee in your business, build a business that relies on systems, protocol and other people's abilities rather than resting on your shoulders alone.

On the other hand, the Fire TV Stick has access to fewer video services — though every one I searched for was available — but can play games and use other apps, like Facebook.

Amazon's remote, on the other hand, also matches the Fire TV Stick's interface: it's simple, modern, and sleek.

Thankfully, there's Stick - N - Find, a new gadget designed to keep tabs on all the other gadgets you have lying around.

That is, as soon as one member of the group offers an idea, the others get stuck on it and conform their own thinking to the suggestion.

«I would call it the perfect storm,» says Mike Stern, the founder of MakeWorks, a new Toronto co-working space where entrepreneurs are busy melding web - connected sensors to pieces of hardware (an Internet - enabled hockey stick that reports back on the speed with which it's handled, among other things).

Other than that, stick to what you know, watch the lines as they move, and make sure you have the most up to date information on who is sitting and who is starting before laying down any serious cash on a game.

Customer loyalty measures something more than satisfaction — it measures whether someone is willing to put their name on the line and recommend your product or service to others or if they are willing to stick with your product / service in spite of an occasional poor experience.

There is no tariff on hockey sticks, but there are tariffs on other gear like helmets and gloves.

On the other hand, she may have had very reasonable expectations but has been stuck doing grunt work because everyone in the department gives her their unpleasant tasks.

Congress extended it to January 19, but the new bill has pitted House committees against each other — people working on the Intelligence and Judiciary committees have told Business Insider they've been «stuck in FISA hell» for weeks.

Women, on the other hand, set better goals and meet them 80 or 90 percent of the time, boosting morale and encouraging employees to stick around.

But if you decide on a topic people would be interested in, when you do research it, it will seed other ideas and you won't be stuck anymore.»

When you make lists everyday on the areas that you focus on you'll notice that certain items will stick and others won't.

That sticking point comes with other hard issues still on the horizon, including dairy, auto parts, the dispute resolution system and the U.S. push for a review of NAFTA every five years.

Other neighbors reported him shooting at squirrels, poking into a rabbit hole with a stick and setting his family's dog on another neighbor's piglets.

Whereas other muni funds might accumulate Illinois debt based on its high yield, regardless of risk, we generally have stuck to investment - grade munis.

Meanwhile, the available mortgage rates stick closely to quotes in other parts of the state on similar loans, and the banks we surveyed made practically no adjustments in rate between Cleveland and Columbus — despite a towering difference in the median listing price.

And once you set up autopay, you're not stuck to the original amount — if you get a raise or have other extra funds to put towards your payments, it's easy to log on and change your payment amount.

We're big on diversifying your investments, making a longterm plan, and sticking to it regardless of market, currency, or any other fluctuations.)

One should think about other business opportunities and not sticking on one business only.

(The new moniker was an amalgam of a nonsense word Markoe and Letterman would say to each other — «melman» — coupled with a nod to one of the Watergate conspirators, Egil «Bud» Krogh Jr.) From the debut, DeForest became one of the show's leading lights of absurdity, a seemingly clueless every - schlub stumbling his way through new - product parodies («Toast on a Stick») or plugging the fictional «Melman Bus Lines.»

You can store cryptocurrencies on something as small as a memory stick, making them far easier to store securely than the equivalent value in cash or other assets.

«So every network has that dilemma, but on the other side if you have a network that gets past that sticking point you have these tremendous network effects where it just starts to build and build and build and that's why you have networks like Facebook.

Once you're on the other side of the volatility, chances are you'll be really happy that you stuck with your plan.

Why couldn't the Fed and Treasury do for Lehman what they did with other Wall Street investment firms and stock brokers: let it reclassify itself as a bank so it could pawn off its junk mortgages at the Fed's discount window for 100 cents on the dollar, sticking taxpayers with the loss?

The negative sentiment in tech stocks right now won't necessarily keep traders from beating each other with a stick to try and get their hands on...

More than 15,000 migrants and refugees remain stuck on Lesvos, Chios, and three other islands, most staying in severely overcrowded camps.

You suggesting atheists do not sort out conflicting emotions on right wrong / good evil or use some other measuring stick.

How does it feel to be on the other end of that stick?

No, it means that they are arguably hypocritical on this one issue, but stick with Obama because this isn't the most burning of issues for them and they like a lot of his other policies.

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

@ Chris At this point in my life I am comfortable with my current conclusions and, barring any new earth shattering evidence or sound deliberation, I will stick to this and focus my time and energy on other disciplines and studies.

Again, if you disagree with this, prove the only thing that makes gravity stick to a 9.8 constant is god keeping his finger on the button and back it up with evidence, or else you're just making baseless claims and still gettting angry at other people for backing up their claims with hard evidence when you can not.

On the other hand, you could get a fentanyl - intensive pinch — in which case you will be found dead soon thereafter with the needle still sticking out of your arm.

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

Again, we, the VAST majority in America seem to be stuck in our attacks on each other and do nothing to move ourselves forward.

There are many honest, hardworking climate scientists who are trying to understand the effects of CO2 on climate, but their work has fallen under suspicion because of the hockey - stick scandal and many other exaggerations about the dangers of increasing CO2.