When I look back on the turning points in my business, I can usually pin
point a time where I chose to just show up.
It's to
the point some times where when my wife is coming in and out of the room and sees the spinning shield on the screen and the boom chica wow music coming out of the speakers she chuckles because it seems like to her I spend more time staring at a loading screen then playing.
Not exact matches
«When we trace the evolution of our universe backwards in
time, at some
point we arrive at the threshold of eternal inflation,
where our familiar notion of
time ceases to have any meaning,» Hertog told Cambridge.
AI experts say the idea has merit but also
point out that assistants will always work better when connected to the Internet,
where they can draw on massive processing and data resources in real
time.
However, if you've reached the
point where you are spending too much
time on the non-critical stuff, can't keep up with demand, or don't have some of the skills needed to take the next step, it's
time to reach for the calculator and figure out if an extra pair of hands can be justified.
The combination of having
time to think and seeing
where people were missing the mark gave me a vantage
point to determine
where we could make an impact.
If you've followed - up three
times to no avail, regardless of the
point in the sales cycle, that's
where the deal ends.
In order to get digital to the
point where it is compensating for print's decline, the
Times would have to add as many new subscribers this quarter as it did in the last quarter, and then do so again in the next quarter, and the one after that, and the one after that.
«The tipping
point where boring work becomes detrimental occurs when the mental drain prevents you from experiencing the positives a majority of the
time,» said Shawn Achor, happiness researcher and author of The Happiness Advantage, in an email.
Case in
point: health care services,
where wait
times for medical procedures have become unacceptably long.
«Over
time, we've been optimizing our clinical lab to bring up tests that are more commonly ordered, and in some cases move resources off the proprietary tests that are less commonly ordered to get to a
point where the ordering patterns we are seeing can all be accommodated through our finger - stick technology.»
Vincent Roy, BlackRock's managing director of scientific active equity,
points out that the S&P / TSX global gold index is trading at 16
times earnings, about half of
where it traded in 2009.
If you have the means to cover the salary for 90 days, and in that
time you're able to grow the business to a
point where you can cover the cost of the new employee, then go ahead and hire.
According to a recent report in New York magazine, the billionaire has also been tightening his grip on his media and entertainment empire — to the
point where he may be squeezing out his long -
time lieutenant Roger Ailes.
But when it came to the
point where someone's like, «All right, it's
time to leave your entire life, your family, everyone you know behind and go to another planet forever until you die,» people would probably say, «Uh, actually... no.»
The city is at the
point where a not - insignificant portion of residents are rooting for the so - called tech bubble to implode at least a little, the New York
Times reported earlier this month.
So we had to spent quite a lot of testing
time to bring the gas lines to a
point where it looked like the flames were slowly creeping up and then totally enveloping the whole tree.»
About 10 years ago I reached a
point in my business
where money would come in from a client, and I had the choice to give employees their paychecks on
time, or pay the IRS.
«If we can get it to a
point where people have some control over their
time, what I've found is people aren't in such a rush to retire,» Hanson said.
Not only has its online traffic expanded to the
point where it is neck - and - neck with the New York
Times, but the Post recently said that it is profitable, which puts it in a very select group of print - based media companies.
You might not be thinking about what books, articles or speeches to create, but there has probably been a
point in
time where you have talked yourself out of pursuing something, because you convinced yourself that you lack a certain level of creativity that it takes to get the job done.
... We have to figure out if a kid feels like at 16 or 17, he doesn't feel like the NCAA is for him or whatever the case may be, we have a system in place
where we have a farm league
where they can learn and be around the professionals, but not actually become a professional at that
point in
time.
«But I think the
time I've spent trying to figure out what to do with it, how to cope with it, how to manage it, how to embrace it, how to laugh about it, and how to let it be part of who I am has brought me to a
point where I think a lot of my creative energy comes from that place.
There was a
point three years ago
where they had 30
times the amount of capital as us.»
Key marketing leverage
points (
where small investments of
time and money will yield magnified returns)
The problem in this case has been that Comcast has been slowing down Netflix for some
time, to the
point where the service has been difficult if not impossible to use for some subscribers.
Survival
times for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast and colon cancers have improved dramatically over the past forty years, to the
point where scientists are saying they are at «an amazing watershed» in understanding the disease.
As the New York
Times pointed out on Tuesday, there have been seven events since the economic crisis of 2009
where the S&P 500 has fallen five percent in the course of a week.
Negative cash flow is more a matter of
timing on payments and receipts, but generally speaking, sales volume is approaching a clear
point where the firm will pass break - even and show a profit.
But, as Macrae is the first to admit, «No matter how many
times you start a business, you almost always get to a
point where it needs an infusion of equity capital from outside investors.»
Finally, when you start seeing the bottom, mentally what I do is I swim until I no longer can take a stroke, and then I do a four -
point stand
where I put both hands really wide and both feet and then stand up slowly — because many
times you fall — and then I stand up and sprint up the beach.
«There'll be an exemption procedure for particular cases
where you need to have exemptions so that business can move forward, but at this
point in
time, there'll be no country exclusions.»
Over
time, Zuckerberg told his rapt audience in Lagos, «you get to the
point where you're running a company,» itself a complicated system segmented into groups of high - functioning people.
Feedback is extremely important, and a lot of
time can be saved by a single conversation
where someone
points out, very clearly, something that isn't «working.»
In the second case, the malware causes the infected computer's iTunes program to open multiple
times without closing to the
point where it crashes.
If you have reached the
point where your product / service is mature and you still see stagnant or declining growth, it may be
time to close shop and move on to something new.
Levesque said this will take
time and
pointed to a recent in event in Abu Dhabi
where two of the top female wrestlers — Sasha Banks and Alexa Bliss — became the first women to compete in the United Arab Emirates.
At some
point in
time, we have all asked ourselves, «
Where am I headed?»
Gamers who remember all too tragically the pain of losing progress will be happy to hear that the games now feature multiple suspend
points, «so you can start
where you left off at a later
time, no passwords needed,» Nintendo said in a statement.
«Andrew got to the
point where he could out - Jesuit a Jesuit,» Rev. James Martin, the author and editor - at - large of the Jesuit weekly America who was a consultant on the film, said in the
Times article.
There's no
time for deep analysis about whether a customer should be offered a discount at a certain
time; the challenge is to employ new predictive technologies to push Reliance's systems beyond the
point where they're «still relying on rules that had to be written by programmers,» to address specific situations.
Without taking the
time to think carefully about
where your notions of achievement and purpose come from and what success means to you, you're in a terrible position to decide if this week's hot «how to be successful» advice applies to you or only to someone who thinks the
point of life is something you actually don't value much at all.
Inflation is reemerging — to the
point where the Federal Reserve is signaling the need to raise interest rates possibly three
times this year.
This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six
times over, to the
point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia
where the necessary geological data were unavailable.
I won't attempt to predict
where the market will go from here, which even economists have a hard
time doing, but I can
point to three reasons for optimism.
«Every
time someone is diagnosed with malaria in Swaziland and Zimbabwe, a team goes to the village
where the infection occurred and collects a GPS
point with the precise infection location,» he said in an interview posted on Google's blog.
«I'll tell you one thing, in 2017 we will reach the
point where people have more screen
time on mobile devices than on any other kind of screen, that's really something incredible when it comes to watching their video.
Next, if we skip over the run - of - the - mill deca - millionaires and jump to someone with $ 100 million in assets, NOW for the first
time are we just getting to the
point where you have a good bit of flexibility.
It is a capital - intensive game
where 30 % of the assets lie idle at any given
point in
time, and each driver in the system is an unpredictable moving part.
It got to the
point where I was driving myself crazy trying to optimize my money all the
time.