Sentences with phrase «other people and things»

Ever feel like most of your time is spent waiting for other people and things to decide what happens to you?

It also promotes connections outside our body, between us and other people and things and between groups of people.

Other people and things can attempt to do these functions, but only lawyers and librarians have a professional obligation to do so in an ethical manner.

In the Ender series, OSC posits that we're connected to other people and things in this universe by way of philotic twines: invisible yet tangible connections based on the mutual love we share for each other or for, as you put it, social objects.

Mario can toss his hat onto other people and things and even baddies.

Finding love means stepping out of your comfort zone, even if it means saying no to other people and things.

I needed to spend less time worrying about other people and things and spend more time with THEM.

«Evil» comes from people making bad choices that cause damage to other people and things.

But the meanings of things depend upon people and their relationship to other people and things.

We experience other people and things as «like us» or «not like us.»

«Evil» comes from people making bad choices that cause unnecessary damage to other people and things.

Not exact matches

Reaching out for help is a good thing, as long as you remember to respect other people's time, relationships and expertise.

Rather than dwell on the problems, however, the magazine launched a special «Economy of the Future» series that aims to spotlight case studies of people and companies who were doing things right, and how they could act as examples to others.

All I was doing was other people's work all day long, and I never actually got to the things that I wanted to accomplish on that given day.»

That includes «trying too much too soon,» «spreading yourself a mile wide and an inch deep,» «trying to be all things to all people,» among others.

«I tend to listen to the people around me... and perhaps tell them what I'm more bullish on than other things.»

But the jobs that require math skills and social skills — communication, working with others, all of these things you're supposed to learn in kindergarten, those end up being valuable because they're very hard to reduce to code or assign on a spec sheet to people living overseas.

People love to hear about others» experiences and to read things from a first - person perspective.

A great leader, though, will do one thing that the others don't: he or she will make the people around and below better.

File this one under simple but powerful ideas most people never think of: «Draw all the things you need to do on a big piece of paper, and find out which things depend on other things.

Maintaining high standards for how people treat each other is a wonderful thing as we live in a world that's rife with animosity and discrimination.

«Other people have to be able to speak for your brand,» says Jonah Berger, author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and the James G. Campbell Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

One of the most exciting things about studying Musk and other breakthrough innovators is that it reveals that even though these people often have special, difficult - to - imitate abilities or traits, the mechanisms by which these abilities and traits lead to innovation are often something we can tap ourselves.

A proxy is how often people like you versus pass on you when you fit their criteria, like ethnicity and other things like that.

But you don't know what other people know, and everyone, no matter who they are, knows things you don't know.

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).

I wanted to get a sense of whether or not these sneakers were as comfortable and easy to fall in love with as other cult - favorites (Allbirds being the most obvious)-- specifically because the greatest indicator of a shoe becoming «the next big thing» is generally whether or not people actually like wearing them.

In response to this 2011 request, the FBI checked U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history.

When you build a strong culture and vet for this in the recruiting process, that naturally happens - great people attract other great people, and collectively do great things.

I'm smart enough to know that you have to listen to other people and involve the [Ryerson] DMZs and incubators to do a lot of the things we're trying to do, both for me personally and the city as a whole.

The good news is that we all can turn our past failures and shortcomings into opportunities to grow our character, develop trust with others, and build leadership capacity to influence people to do great things.

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 thinAnd, 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 thinand 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.

When talented and intelligent people find themselves doing things that are too easy or boring, they seek other jobs that will challenge their intellects.

The other advantage of having multiple interview is each person will have a different experience with the candidate, and learn new things about him or her.

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.

A corporation, on the other hand, is many things to many people: an investment, an employer, a supplier and so on.

It's so easy to get bogged down in email and other people's to - do lists that when you look up at the end of the day you realize you didn't make any progress on the things that are most important.

In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty.

It's a positive thing if you understand the obligations involved in responding to an invitation to be a speaker: the obligation to share your thoughts if you know more than the other people in the room, and the obligation to not share your thoughts if you don't know more than the other people in the room.

Of course, fear isn't rational — you don't see people giving toaster ovens the side - eye, and many other things that people are afraid of, including public speaking and spiders, are unlikely to harm you either.

If you're a compelling and confident speaker, people assume you're good at other things too.

I read the funniest thing the other day courtesy of The Wall Street Journal: «Google Inc. is developing a video game console and wrist watch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the internet company seeks to spread the software beyond smartphones and tablets.»

And look, we get that a major criticism of Buffett is that he's a hypocrite and loves to tell other people to do things he himself doesn't do (like pay high taxeAnd look, we get that a major criticism of Buffett is that he's a hypocrite and loves to tell other people to do things he himself doesn't do (like pay high taxeand loves to tell other people to do things he himself doesn't do (like pay high taxes).

They worry that they'll say or do the wrong thing and they picture other people being horrified by their behavior.

They tend to hover over other people's work and try to fix things that could have been done more easily by someone else.

Gates brought up the values alignment problem when it comes to AI: «One thing to make sure the people who create the first strong AI have the right values and ideally that it isn't just one group way out in front of others.

There's no such thing as a bad time to quit Facebook, a website that takes 40 minutes per day of its average user's productive time in exchange for access to other people's badly composed baby photos and half - baked political opinions.

Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio recently told CNBC that the Trump win may reignite «animal spirits» and «gut instinct» decision - making that will be a good thing for the economy, but behavioral finance experts worry that other primal instincts can be destructive when people play politics with their investments.