They're ice breakers and help people put a face and name to the people they're about to do business with.
A quote often attributed to Abraham Lincoln states it this way: «Many
people are about as happy as they like to think they are.»
At least you know that
the people you are about to hire agree with your terms.
When more
people are about, there's a greater opportunity for invasion of privacy or a breach in security.
«In a noisy world, where most
people are about «me first,» the way to stand out and succeed is simple.
As enthusiastic as
people are about the growth of new businesses in Turkey, it will be interesting to watch over the coming months the dance between the government and entrepreneurs in Turkey.
«No matter how excited
people were about this new green building, they'd say, «My budget!
You can't take on the additional mental burden of wondering, «Is the person I'm about to meet sexist?
I could easily argue that this was a very strong quarter for Big Blue, and that
people are about to see IBM's faster - growing portions overtake its slower - growing business.
And the attitude of the Wirlu murra
people is about building up relationships with other communities and people like mining companies, working together with them.
But it's always puzzled me that no matter how apathetic
people are about politics, international news, or even the general artistic climate of the country, they always seem to have an opinion about music.
There is a phrase «there are no atheists in foxholes»... implying that when
people are about to die they hedge their bets and start praying.
So if the average church gets three conversions for every 100 people, and the average church expense for 100
people is about $ 170,000, then the average expense per conversion is over $ 50,000.
Someone always knows when
a person is about to do something.
In my opinion it probably served a purpose for a time, but I agree that what may have started as a sincere desire to question presuppositions now has become a place where
people are about name, career, money, ego, etc. just like every other established religious structure.
But in general, the more blatant
a person was about their Christianity, the less likely they were to be a good customer.
I try to tell people it's about psychology but no one likes to talk about that.
I'd love to have a rule that everyone voting in a church meeting should first personally plead with
the person they are about to exclude.
That's a common stereotype that doesn't make anyone sound smart — not the people it's about and not the people who rely on it.
Regardless of the faith, I feel that religion for many
people is about personal power over others, and this corrupts the whole reason people go at all.
For most of
those people it is about using god as a club to control the people.
«When he presented he had a dilated pupil, which is a serious neuralgic problem, indicating that
the person is about to neurologically die,» said Lage's nuerosurgeon, Dr. Arthur Daus.
Not exact matches
«We see a lot of companies come in with a lot of capital — really good business - minded
people — but they
're not enthusiasts or enthusiastic
about the product they
're selling,» says Cobb.
Generation Z —
people born after 1996 —
is about to hit the working world in a big way.
Automotive engineers say «they
're asking questions
about automotive safety — how foolish of these
people — go and get a degree!»»
«The late, great Stephen Covey (talk
about world's best leaders) said that highly effective
people «seek to understand before they seek to
be understood.»
The Levi's initiative — «Improving Worker Well -
Being,» officially —
is about getting an industry to recognize that workers aren't faceless cogs in giant profit machines, but
people with feelings and needs.
First and foremost, I
'm an actor, and as much as I love content creation, there
's something
about taking on a different role and playing a different
person that I find so creatively fulfilling and fun.
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.
The average round - trip commute time
is about an hour, but it
's not that uncommon for
people to commute from the far reaches of the Central Valley into the city.
PR, or public relations
is one of those areas of business that
people have a lot of opinions
about, but there
's a lot of mystery behind the scenes.
The more that
people push themselves to think
about all the possibilities that could happen, and particularly to visualize and think a little bit on possibilities that might contradict with each other, the more they become attuned to understanding what
's really likely and what
's less likely.
Many
people are happy to engage in a conversation
about smart, authentic ways to exchange audiences.
I
was just thinking
about this and I think that this happens because
people don't really think this through and believe that the marketing strategy will make their product a better choice than those of the competition.
When a relationship hits a serious stage and couples get married or commit to each other in some big way,
people are often too overcome with excitement or too overwhelmed by the prospect of spending forever with this
person to have a deep discussion
about where their priorities lie.
Using traditional methods, you know if you've taken a sort of Apollo - style approach, an optimistic class number would
be about $ 10 billion a
person.
The reality of an astronaut's job
is all
about being on Earth and preparing and helping other
people fly in space and supporting them and training each other.
«It
's that happiness that
people talk
about, when you wish for nothing, when you can finally take a deep breath and say, «Everything
is good,»» she said.
Not only
are many of the horses that East Coast moves around the country extremely valuable animals, but
people care a lot
about their animals no matter what the horse
is worth.
Especially with matters of business, I
'm never afraid that
people won't want to talk back to me
about what they
're up to, or that I might offend them by asking such questions.
Unregulated digital entities, created by just
about anyone out of nothing, that assume some value denominated in fiat currency simple because they
're being traded between anonymous
people or bots whose only desire
is to make prices go up, on unregulated opaque exchanges where everyone thinks price manipulation
is good as long as it pushes up the price....
«It
's more interesting to hear
about other
people.»
Data and research and scholarly journals
are great, but
people like Dale,
people with a pubic platform willing to talk openly
about their experiences, spread awareness and create change at a much faster rate than would otherwise have
been possible.
But the lack of privacy for Bitcoin and just
about every other cryptocurrency
is not only a problem for crooks, it
's also a major barrier to adoption for regular
people and businesses.
In the season three premiere, it
's not just
about the technology itself, but also the way in which it changes how
people behave and react to others.
[Employees]
are fairly used to
people saying good and bad things [
about the company].
So entrenched
is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks
about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion
people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.
Trust me,
people are not happy
about this and we
're not proud of this,» he said in an interview.
I
'm sure just
about every sales
person in the world has heard this pitch, in some way or another.
In hindsight, many of us in VC and tech
are saying, «How did so many
people in Hollywood know
about Harvey Weinstein and not say anything?»