Sentences with phrase «people i asked did»

The confusion for me, again even as a little kid (ages 9 - 11 particularly, at a time when I was quite the believer even), was that all the other religions pretty much said the same thing... prayers answered, miracle cures, and with the same back up, that «unanswered» prayers were either an answer, «no» or «not yet»... OR... the person asking didn't have the right heart, or didn't ask for the right thing, or asked the wrong way, etc..

Sometimes I'm not ready to give an answer because I can tell that the person asking doesn't really want one anyway.

The answers were so varied and many people I asked didn't really have an answer.

Many people ask us does renters insurance cover identity theft.

The one office person we asked did not have any information about best driving route to Heathrow from the hotel.

We love Triptease, and it turned out many of the people we asked did, too.

A few people I asked didn't see it as first — though I saw it immediately... which does kind of bring Hermann Rorschach to mind.

I asked a lot of questions and if the person I asked didn't know the answer, they'd either get back to me in a timely manner or direct me to a person who could answer my question.

Not exact matches

I only ask people to do it who value not polluting.

Instead say: «I don't have a strong opinion either way, but a couple things to consider are...» When you offer an opinion (even without choosing a side), it shows that you care about the person asking.

Less confident people often can't be present and their best selves if they're constantly asking themselves questions such as: Did I come across as confident?

In my professional life, the people I work with typically know better than I do how I can be of the most value to them, so I just ask.

They originally approached that question by asking «how do we put the right people together?»

Geoff Llopis, author of The Innovation Mentality, asks a valid question: «Why do people need your diversity and inclusion plan, and what is the opportunity it is solving for you?»

Again, people don't like to think about insurance, so we try not to ask questions you don't need to be asked.

So, you can sort of turn the interview process on its head a little bit and ask the person who's interviewing you, maybe, what they've done, what they've worked on and what they've learned in the process.

In other words, the person who is asking a factory to deliver 5,000 orders tomorrow is the same person who has asked them to do it using 50 % less water.

Notice that I don't say «no» to people who ask me for a discount.

Notes Lindstrom, «What I can do now is, instead of asking people questions like, How self - contained are you?

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

The one day that you yourself stray from what you're asking other people to be accountable to, you can no longer ask them to do that — because now you're being a hypocrite.

For people who are looking to follow this same practice, Maxfield suggest re-evaluating your to - do list and asking yourself during this meeting, «Is this task getting me towards where I want to go in my relationships, in my career and in my life?»

And as part of this, you'll need to learn how to approach people who have done something similar to what you want to accomplish and ask them for guidance.

The belief is that most online businesses will never be able to compete with the personalized service of a person at the counter waiting to help you, to ask you how your day is going, to help carry your bags to your car, to lend you a bathroom, and to sell you things you don't really need.

Eileen Carey, CEO of Glassbreakers, put it this way, «Say no at work when you are assigned a task that does not fall under your job description and could be easily accomplished by the person who is asking it.

«For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness and I will work to do better,» Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page.

«I've done a lot of formal mentoring through the Women's Executive Network, and then there's the informal stuff: People call me up all the time and ask if we can chat.

You ask: Why the hell don't these people rent?

People ask me all the time — do you ever not work?

Don't ask people simply whether they have a decision.

Jeff Widman, CEO of Brand Glue, a consulting company based in Mountain View, California, offers the advice to «Put the question first, rather than last» and to «ask a question where people don't need to click through a link to give you an answer.»

But when we ask people how did they hear about Figure 1 in our user interviews, they'd say «my med school classmate showed it to me,» or doctors who hear about it from residence and med students.

For instance, each Friday does the person consistently ask questions about inbound referrals, web traffic or other accomplishments for the week?

Rowley: I have a hard time saying no, just because I spent my whole life hoping that people would ask me to do things.

In a world where people are asking where all the shoppers have gone, this two - way loyalty is a differentiating factor between companies that do well and those that dominate.

After building and test - driving a couple of prototypes, he sent a polling team to the Montreal motorcycle show, to seek out people who didn't own motorcycles and ask them why.

If you asked people that, they'd look at you like «I du n no.»

Pollsters typically ask roughly 1,000 people a question like: Whom do you plan to vote for?

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 people ask us now how we started the company, I tell them we didn't start the company.

Asked what he considers his greatest achievement, he acknowledged the obvious — «the chance to be part of the software revolution empowering people was the biggest thing I have gotten to do» but made it clear it's healthcare that has his attention these days.

It was just trying to make people do a double - take as they walk by and ask, «What is this thing called Splatoon?»

Have you heard the truism, «If you want something done, ask a busy person?»

People lined up to see it, then took out their checkbooks and asked what they could do to help the suffering Nepalese.

I thought of some research I had done with a colleague where we asked people to write about their contributions.

In a conversation with a CEO recently, he was asking me about expectations of new people, and how they weren't understanding what to do.

He didn't mention that the company will start asking for people's input — as TechCrunch said, it's a bit odd, since it's the users who are flooding the social network with fake news to begin with.

«We're trying to stop [decisions] at the right level and make sure people have the autonomy to do their jobs correctly, without necessarily having to escalate everything,» explains Malboeuf, adding that staff have been asking for such freedom for a few years now.

«Find the people who are the best at what they do, call them, compliment them, and ask if you can pick their brain.

«Often people don't get a call back because they don't ask,» she says.