Sentences with phrase «people these days just»

He calls at least one person each day just to catch up.

With so many people these days just wanting to make a quick buck, especially in the book world, straight - forward information like this is hard to come by.

Not exact matches

Almost half of developers are still devoting their energies toward consoles, but the input differences are huge — high - end games are requiring an average of $ 8.7 million, 65 people and 583 days to produce, compared to just $ 300,000, seven people and 156 days for mobile games.

That probably does not describe your top sales person or the developer who just saved the day.

With news of both Jessops and HMV closing down just days after the start of the New Year, for people wishing to start up their own business especially, the outlook isn't good.

But if you're having a tough day, and you just want get through that checkout line and get home with your ice cream, for a second you think, Do I really have to talk to this person?

Although he did not elaborate on this remark, it came just days after US President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily barred people from seven Muslim - majority nations from entering the US.

«The idea of working five days a week with two - day weekends and a few weeks of annual holiday is just something people accept,» he writes.

And yet, as painful as such events are, and as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says Wintemute.

In his autobiography «Finding My Virginity,» he recalls telling Musk, «If you don't have your own ventures one day, you're welcome to come and run one of mine — just brush up on your people skills.»

«Encouraging people to shop small just one day out of the year does nothing to help my business grow.

«Kelly is now just another staffer who could get fired any day of the week by Donald J. Trump,» said one person close to the White House.

«It is just not acceptable to ever think that it should be commonplace in our country for people to send their kids to school in the morning and not know if they're going to come home at the end of the day,» Deutch said.

Just because you won't see team members in the flesh each day doesn't mean that all communication need be relegated to the handful of times everyone gathers together in person.

If people support small businesses just one day a year, that's not enough to keep them open.»

«If people have expectations that it's going to have huge liquidity on day one, they're just wrong,» Novogratz said Thursday in Toronto.

The book seeks to answer the question: If wealthy people have the same 24 hours in a day, and work just as hard as others, how do they acquire such incredible wealth?

My biggest misconception that I get all the time is that people think I don't have a real job or that I just have fun and eat all day long.

If you're looking for an easy way to do a good deed for the day, just give the people walking past you a brief but genuine smile.

I think it's hugely valuable to stop often, probably every day and just take a moment to be grateful to all of the people who have helped you get where you are today, or who are helping you get to where you want to be tomorrow.

Offering your team unlimited vacation days — and taking them yourself — encourages not just staycations or a lazy beach break but also more experiential travel to faraway places that can open up a person to new ways of thinking.

I think in the earlier days of our business, we definitely thought of Instagram as just another social media platform, a place where we could connect with people on a more personal level.

At the end of the day, you just want to treat people how you like to be treated.

If people didn't like you in caveman days, they would just eat you.»

I made 500 to 750 cold calls a week and followed up in - person with people who had hung up on me just days before.

I don't just go to work every day; I get to learn from people that I get to choose to have around me.

«At the end of the day,» he says, «you want to see people roll up their sleeves and just go to work and stop talking so much about it.»

On April 17, the first 17 people who call to book requesting the «Tax Day rate» will get a one - night stay for just $ 4.17.

In fact, I've been called a liar when I tell people that we created a campaign that on a single day had an 11 percent click - through rate and a cost just $ 0.30 per install.

I probably still spend an hour a day on there, replying to comments and just engaging with other people, and scrolling and saving photos that inspire me.

Getting organized early for vacations is especially important for small businesses whose day - to - day operations can be severely hampered if just one person takes off for the cottage for a few days.

And even though Jim had just spent 36 days alone becoming the first person to cross the mountainous Ungava Peninsula in northern Quebec in winter (the peninsula itself has been crossed in a single season by canoe much further to the south)... we decided this was too big a challenge for us to miss out on.

Management told people to show up each day, not to ask questions or make recommendations, not to analyze things and just do what they were told.

The maximum number of people on any given day receiving a tax refund is just 4 % of the population.

The other day at a trade show I learned the life stories of at least three people just by being genuinely interested and present in the moment.

Instagram, a start - up which had existed for a mere 551 days, which had never made a cent in revenue, and which employed just a dozen people, had pulled off one of the most impressive exits in recent memory.

Beyond voting, the greatest opportunity is helping people stay engaged with the issues that matter to them every day, not just every few years at the ballot box.

This day and age, many people just send instant messages with customers and that personal touch and relationship is starting to lack.»

In 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted the American Time Use Survey, which found watching television is still Americans» top leisure activity, accounting for the way people age 15 and older spend just over half their available free time — or 2.7 hours — each day.

Then he delivers the killer question or statement that catches the person off guard: «You just said you were at work the day of the murder.

You might like to try out short - term job swaps as well, as people working in a role that's new to them can often see potential problems or new solutions that those there day in and day out just don't notice.

So he photographed the people: «Not Putin, not vodka, just the people I saw every day, living their lives.»

Several people were killed in and around the city's tourist area near its beaches during the first days of August, including one incident on August 4 in which a person chased down another and killed them on a street just yards from the water.

The Metropolitan Police said more officers than usual would be on duty in the area throughout the march, which was held just days after a terror attack on Westminster that killed four people and injured 50.

At the end of the day, the Swiss luxury makers will be left standing exactly where they were while smartwatches will just be another category of low - priced tech junk that some people were excited about once upon a time.

That's especially true on Sundays, when RBC's much - hyped investment in meeting consumer needs, whenever and however people want, is closed — just like in the good old days, when banks were called banks.

Most people just take one day at a time and then they wonder where the time went.

«What's happening to Meek Mill is just one example of how our criminal justice system entraps and harasses hundreds of thousands of black people every day,» Jay - Z wrote.

Things like branded pinball machines and on - site sushi chefs may make people feel like they're somewhere truly progressive for a few days, but afterwards, they just become unhelpful, expensive distractions from work.

But think about just the most basic level, people who come to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, about 100 billion times a day to share content or a message with a specific set of people, and I think that that basic functionality, people understand because we have the controls in line every time, and given the volume of the activity and the value that people tell us that they are getting from that, I think that that control in line does seem to be working fairly well.