Sentences with phrase «one was in the middle»

Only moonshots matter; being in the middle of anything else is mediocre at best and boring, which is even worse.

Every business person has that fear of being in the middle of an important call or message, when suddenly the phone experiences a bad connection and drops the call.

Google's senior vice-president of engineering Vic Gundotra was in the middle of his keynote at the recent developer's conference when he was interrupted.

There's a meter on the wall that shows you how much time you have left, so you won't have to worry about running out of water while you're in the middle of shampooing.

Then there are those in the middle: the ones who classify workers as contractors, and are being sued because of it.

The 23 - year - old quantitative trader was in the middle of an extracurricular bet — on the web site PredictIt — that Senate Republicans» second attempt at overhauling Obamacare would fall short of the 51 votes needed to pass.

One of his anchor content makers said he couldn't post his YouTube video because he was in the middle of a forest in Australia and there wasn't any internet connection.

If you have all of those things, you can work when it's feasible for you, whether that's in the middle of the day during rush hour, or in the wee hours of the night on a weekend.

«He'd be in the middle of a line of code when he'd gradually tilt forward until his nose touched the keyboard,» [Microsoft co-founder Paul] Allen said.

That's what we're in the middle of right now.

«When you're in the middle and getting beaten up by both sides, it's good to know there are people who have got your back,» said first - termer Gottheimer.

If we're in the middle of a financial crisis, that prospect is less clear.)

The airport is in the middle of a $ 600 - million program designed to reduce the amount of time it takes for passengers to transit through its terminals.

Finally, if you are in the middle of an attack right now, seek out the guidance of a trusted mentor, and keep your head up.

He was in the middle of his life.

He is more productive around people than at home, but he doesn't want to be in the middle of the activity because he will be tempted to start a conversation.

«Volkswagen was in the middle of the pack.»

Still, even if you take out the Obama Trauma, in which the stock market fell nearly 13 % following the current president's election in 2008 — and, to be fair, the country was in the middle of a financial panic — the average return in a month following the election is 0.4 %.

If it's in the middle, the valuation will be relatively high compared with the past.

The company is in the middle of a spending boom on its parks, with projects going up around the world.

«I would go to class one day and I would learn about transactions and I would go to work on Monday and be in the middle of the transaction, and I would think, «Thank God I went to class,»» says Cole.

My company, Recruiter.com, is in the middle of seeking a seed round of funding and I can tell you that my comfort level has varied, depending on the investor.

According to Milton, Poljanski's veins are likely more prominent than usual because he's in the middle of the Tour de France, but for an athlete like him, his veins probably stand out all year round, although it's likely not as «dramatic.»

«It seems that we are in the middle of a base race across the Indian Ocean,» David Brewster, senior research fellow at at the Australian National University, wrote in a February note published on think tank The Lowy Institute.

Have you ever been in the middle of typing an email or writing a blog post only to become stumped when attempting to spell a word?

Surfing the internet, answering a call, getting a snack, texting someone back quickly while you're in the middle of something — it all pulls you away from intense focus.

Obama: The initial target of the Republican Benghazi probe was Obama, who was in the middle of a heated re-election campaign at the time of the attacks.

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

But if you explain that you're in the middle of a real crisis — like if the oil rig is on fire — you're sure to get far different results.

Again, if you ask people about how they deal with stress and you hear answers that just don't pass the smell test - where someone always seems be in the middle of a crisis - you might just have an arsonist on your hands.

Sirius Resources, which is in the middle of a takeover by Independence Group, has formally awarded GR Engineering Services a $ 114 million engineering, procurement and construction contract at its Nova nickel mine in the Fraser Range.

The company's sweet spot, says Gray, is in the middle, between Target and Nordstrom, a popular — and pricier — U.S. department store that's coming to Canada in 2014.

The Guelph, Ont., company, which connects retailers with contractors willing to deliver and assemble products for their customers, was in the middle of a blistering growth spurt.

And Samsung, which was in the middle of the pack at No. 26 in 2008, has been on a consistently upward trajectory, landing at the No. 2 spot in this year's ranking.

Two years later, in 1985, the company was in the middle another period of upheaval.

According to a recent hiring survey from Dice, a technology and engineering career website, five of the top 12 toughest places in the U.S. to recruit tech talent are in the middle of the country.

Back in October last year — as Bitcoin was in the middle of a momentous rise that came to an end months later — he wrote that regulation would pop the growing bubble.

So they're not limited by these false constraints that hold people back that are in the middle of this subject.»

Since most companies don't want to be in the middle, he says, HBC has an opportunity to be the only department store that services both budget - conscious and budget - busting consumers.

This may be hard to swallow when you're in the middle of a massive failure.

As this magazine went to press in late November, equities were in the middle of a record - setting rally that charged Wall Street pundits and strategists with a fresh sense of optimism.

Maybe it's in the middle of a park.

As the criminal investigation is underway, the company continues its internal investigation over sexual harassment and is in the middle of a lawsuit over intellectual property with Google's self - driving company Waymo.

California's historic drought is in the middle of its fifth year.

And then something would change, and we'd be in the middle of development and be like, «Uh, uh we got ta change it — add another hard drive slot to it.

When I visited him in San Francisco last fall, Griffith was in the middle of a career swerve.

«He'd be in the middle of a line of code when he'd gradually tilt forward until his nose touched the keyboard.

New conversations are on top and conversations that are moving along are in the middle.

... We are just lucky to realize that we are in the middle of it right now,» he says.

The UK is in the middle of a worsening productivity crisis, and it currently takes a British worker four days to produce what our German counterparts make in four.