Sentences with phrase «people in the room when»

Making someone feel like the most important person in the room when you're talking to them can go a long way in building your relationship.

At the age of 37, he was the oldest person in the room when he arrived at what he describes as a book warehouse with offices, and the book opens with a fascinating description of how ambitious Jeff Bezos had likeably interviewed him.

He's also a great example of someone who knows he might not be the smartest person in the room when it comes to a particular asset class... and acknowledges the value of building a great team to fill in the details.

They used the video recordings to keep track of the number of dogs who sought out human help from a person in the room when they failed to open the container lid themselves.

Or the room is empty, it's not like we know there's people in the room when you're painting.

Not exact matches

He appreciates the importance of communication, especially when communicating with people in different rooms, countries and continents.

«The total volume of the room, when empty, divided by the number of people normally working in it should be at least 11 cubic metres.

Failing to secure vacant rooms or storage areas while they're not in use can be inviting to certain people to commit theft when they might not otherwise, depending on how easy they perceive a theft to be.

While some folks are, of course, naturally gifted in this area, if you're not an inherently smooth operator you can teach yourself behaviors and mental tricks that will help you win friends, influence people, and make a strong impression when you walk in a room.

Passion and enthusiasm goes a long way in this world — especially when you're standing in front of a room full of people.

«It's very easy to communicate if you're the only one in the room, but it's much more difficult when there's 400 people.»

On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new in a writer's room, and you don't know what to do or say: One, be the person who holds the marker and stands at the board.

When I did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time doing digital anthropology... going to chat rooms and getting people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about in person.

When all the most successful people in your chosen field are gathered, get yourself in the room however you can and then act like you belong.

When the co-founder of California - based Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) isn't sitting in the middle of a 70 - person trading room or staring at a Bloomberg machine, he's doing yoga at a health club across the street, thinking of his best ideas.

The diminished ability is akin to what sleep deprivation might cause, the researchers found, noting that people performed best on tasks when their phone was in another room and worst when their phone was on the table, whether the phone was on or off.

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego and Disney Research recently conducted a study and found that when a person's smartphone is nearby — on the table or even in the same room — that person's performance on a cognitive task (requiring problem - solving and reasoning) will likely suffer.

Most people are very concerned about being different or knowing the least of everyone in the room when it comes to meetings.

«When you travel alone, you force yourself into a survival mode where you have to do things and you have to meet people and you have to push yourself to figure out what's going on unless you want to be in your room all day,» he says «It's the most exhilarating, inspiring, creative thing that there is.»

But Trump falls short as a superboss, notes Finkelstein, when it comes to making room for other people in his organization to shine.

What about the idea that communication happens more easily and spontaneously when people are in the same room?

But most people in the room, French and English alike, soon forgot about politics when Harrison started speaking about improving railway performance, which he has repeatedly proved he can do like nobody else in the business, so long as he is allowed to do things his way.

«Always expect your name will come up when you're not in the room — the more advocates you have, the more people will root for you when opportunities arise.»

A person who was in the room when Cohn brought out the dossiers says the ploy had no influence on the board's decisions, though it was unmistakably a threat to release damaging information.

«When I walk in a room and I'm the only woman, or the only person of color, I don't for a second forget that,» Saintil said.

But when we decided to go more proactively across the country, we had to hold a congress of all Desjardins» elected officers — 2,000 people had to meet in a room to talk about it.

«Relative deprivation is an idea that says that when we make judgments about ourselves, we judge ourselves next to our immediate peers — people like us in the same room as us — not to the world at large,» Gladwell said in a recent interview with author Daniel H. Pink.

If it was in a lockbox on the other side of the room when a threatening person walked in, would the teacher be able to get to their gun in time?

«When students come into the university, they should look around the room because the people in those classes are going to be in their lives for the rest of their life.

When Banner Health, a large group based in Phoenix, partnered with Aetna to offer a joint health plan, it decided to add 35 retail clinics where people could get care after - hours or closer to their homes rather than show up in the system's emergency rooms.

But people who inhabit the executive suites, board rooms, and trading floors don't need this chart to tell you what happened, especially those who grew up in the»80s and»90s when «going public» was the epitome of success.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room.

We'll use smartphones to scan for risk factors of high blood pressure or type - 2 diabetes, «visit» with specialists remotely at medical kiosks — and when we do go for an in - person exam, we'll spend the bulk of time seeing the doctor rather than reading old magazines in the waiting room.

«People think when they are giving to, say, a Salvation Army or Goodwill, that all of that is going to be resold in their stores, and it's just not, because they don't have enough room for that,» she says.

«I think the air vibrates differently around some people,» Spier said, adding, «Leadership is the way you make people feel when they're in a room with you.»

Q Can you explain why the President, when he spoke — when he answered questions from reporters a few weeks ago about the $ 130,000 payment from Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels, why the President was not truthful with the American people and with the people in this room?

As a practical matter, smaller size boards are easier to manage (i.e. scheduling board meetings for larger boards is extremely difficult; meetings seem to go faster when there are less people in the room whose opinions needs to be heard).

When rescuers began to discover the dead in room - to - room checks, it was clear that the people in the most critical condition were on the second floor.

What happens when the smartest people in the room decide something is inevitable and yet it doesn't come to pass?

This is a book about what happens when the smartest people in the room decide something is inevitable, and yet it doesn't come to pass.

«So when we were hiding in the room, people were saying they heard gunshots, and we didn't know if it was real,» Ryan said.

Most people get locked up in a padded room for less than what passes as «ok» when it gets the «god» label attached.

How can we ever be a good friend when we have no room for another person in our carefully crafted lives?

When people hear god is it like hearing an actual voice in your ears but no one is in the room with you:?

When you die, I promise you: I will not make the decision to not embalm you I will not make the decision to not show you off to a room full of people surrounded by flowers for 2 days I will not make the decision to not parade you through town with traffic stopping pomp I won't bury you within 24 hours I WILL allow YOUR family to make those decisions for you in respect to what you wish for in your passing.

I can only describe it as a blind person might describe a situation when she suddenly senses she is not alone in the room.

My agency doesn't stand to make a nickel off it, but they're giving me the use of their screening room, their phone list and client list, people like Will.I.Am and Peter Gabriel who saw the film and were then incredibly generous in giving their songs at a great rate when I couldn't afford their music normally.

When she was 18, Renaud arranged to have sex for the first time at a hotel with a person she met in a Christian chat room.

And yes, it feels a little odd when everyone else in the room is checking their phones and laughing at things and I'm just standing there, but I think there was a time when groups of people in rooms all functioned perfectly well, phoneless and looking at each other.

I have walked out of rooms before when people were to pray in a manner that I didn't agree with.