Sentences with phrase «rather than stuff»

I also like the energy and focus to be more on the people, rather than the stuff — you know?

One of the reasons I prefer modular construction to the trendier shipping container housing is that the size of the module can be designed for people, rather than stuff.

Comedy is usually rooted in when things go wrong, so games that aren't very polished wind up being extra fun because they can be funny, provided the bugs are amusing rather than stuff that just crashes a lot.

We're also very interested in exciting / remarkable posts containing lesser - known information like recommendations for the best top - secret local restaurants, rather than stuff that's easily found on Lonely Planet.

You can help encourage your dog to be a happy, busy, lifelong chewer who enjoys chewing appropriate items rather than your stuff.

Which kind of explains why they publish some of the crap they do, rather than stuff people would actually want to read.

We try to focus on activities and experiences rather than stuff so our rewards were activities, but you could also create a system like you'd find with tickets at an arcade and allow the kids to turn in points for physical rewards too.

But actually, there is a way that it can, according to research: Spend your dough on experiences rather than stuff.

Think more about what you want to experience with your baby in the first year rather than the stuff you want to have.

In other words, do the stuff your kids want to do, rather than the stuff you want your kids to do, at least some of the time.

(Buy it from a natural food store, rather than the stuff in the supermarkets, which contains dubious ingredients.)

Would there were a poet who might resolve to prefer such situations, rather than the stuff and nonsense with which comedies and novels are filled!

I wanted to eat it all but I'm really working on leaving the table satisfied rather than stuffed.

It's better to eat more often with the intake of small food amounts, rather than stuffing yourself 1 or 2 times a day.

Like most issues in life, gender disappointment is handled best within a trusted community, rather than stuffing it, hiding it, or pretending it isn't so.

Wearing maternity clothes actually did wonders for my self - esteem rather than stuffing myself into pre-pregnancy stuff.

However, rather than stuffing your pockets with treats, reward your pooch by allowing him to relieve himself and sniff around a little.

How can we be pragmatic about having a positive effect on our environment rather than stuffing it full of «recyclables»?

Point to remember here is that, include only relevant experience, rather than stuffing jobs from other fields.

Emphasis on content improvement — We place more emphasis on showcasing your strengths and accomplishments, rather than stuffing buzzwords into a resume that was created through a generic template («What?!

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Now, Google uses a consistent rubric to assess candidates, Bock says, «rather than having each interviewer just make stuff up.»

(See Why You Never Saw it Coming) At the same time, in the good news category, once we're free of the drudgery of dragging all the usual stuff home, our actual shopping at the market may once again be an awesome experience rather than an unavoidable chore as well as an opportunity to discover and try new things.

If your filing cabinet is stuffed into the hall closet rather than sitting next to your desk, the documents inside it are likely to get overlooked or misplaced when they are needed most.

Another common mistake is storing your papers and your stuff wherever there's room for it rather than where it gets used.

Artists will have to further consider direct - to - fan offerings, rather than place stuff in stores.

In this modern age, that can be taken quite literally — rather than lovers giving each other paper cards that say stuff like «I Choo - Choo - Choose You,» people today are more prone to express their love electronically through various means including e-mail, text messages and social media.

Comparing these two positions will spur you to deploy more energy into actually mapping out strategies rather than merely daydreaming of all the good stuff that can come your way,

They're very serious, and they want to feel like they've accomplished a lot at a very young age rather than just trying to figure stuff out.

From great online content to endless book recommendations and must - read lists, most of us struggle to fit in all the reading we want to do rather than locate cool stuff to check out.

But I definitely want to promote stuff that inspires people rather than just brag [and] make people feel jealous of what I'm doing.

Much as it is possible for someone to get rewarded for performing a work — as opposed to writing it, which involves copyright — publishers would get to command fees for the stuff their writers write, based their own (new) rights rather than the copyright held by the journalist.

They have a tremendous ability to understand complex structures and objectives; an ear for sweeping, emotionally connecting narratives that unite rather than divide; and an admirable ability to not sweat the small stuff.

Her idea is simple: everyone with a video camera has a crapload of priceless family footage; however, because the footage is unorganized, and generally not put together well, people would rather pull their fingernails out than watch a half hour of family memories; therefore, working within different pricing models, my wife takes video, photos, and music, and edits people's stuff.

If you, the investor or concerned citizen, really want to send a message to the big players in gun sales, including companies like Wal - Mart, you're more likely to have an impact organizing a campaign to not buy stuff there, rather than abstaining from stock ownership.

It's been difficult for me to determine how my mix of stuff has done vs. a given index because the PersonalCapital You Index feature takes your current portfolio weightings and backdates that rather than accounting for your trades, natural changes in value, added contributions etc

I rather put my time in researching stuff that makes money than wasting my time on political posts.

Maybe that's just in the «stuff» happens category rather than changing the underlying wisdom.

Notice that it's by holding on to money rather than by spending it that people evince a demand for the stuff.

In fact, this will actually hurt your website's SEO because search engines will recognize it as keyword stuffing — or the act of including keywords specifically to rank for that keyword, rather than to answer a person's question.

The reason is that when investors are inclined toward risk - aversion, safe liquidity is a desirable asset rather than an inferior one, so creating more of the stuff doesn't provoke speculation.

The Bible is often assumed, by many here in the UK, to be the stuff of legend, belonging with Aesop's fables or Hans Christian Andersen, rather than history... More

Images and patterns are the stuff of the imagination, which is the capacity that unifies data into wholes; it does so by means of patterns rather than abstract concepts.

Personally, I think I'd rather pray standing with the Greeks and know what to do next than to be always re-structuring stuff.

Why don't we grow up, rather than follow the past and fight over this trivial stuff?

There is more important stuff than what a woman does with her body, if the church would actually go out and try to do some good rather than try to regain control and FIXATE on this one issue, they would be a lot better off, imo.

We might even recognize that this was the stuff of legend, rather than history.

It was, I said, «good and hopeful stuff, which encourages one to hope that he will be using his obvious capacity to work out what's going on in a particular secularised culture to help the Church here to begin the fightback, in the most effective way open to him - that is, by helping the Pope to appoint bishops who will do everything they can to implement rather than to undermine the Holy Father's agenda.»

However, he is rejecting less the idea that «creativity» can be called a «stuff» than the idea that it can be described morphologically rather than as a dynamic process.

It's about being with others, being part of something, rather than being the same or having the same amount of stuff.

But each time I read books, blogs or articles about the topic (granted that I am more inclined to read stuff written by people who are really serious about their relationship with God rather than people complaining merely because they can — and thereâ $ ™ s plenty of them), I come to one conclusion: The complaints are mostly about what the church has become (or how people perceive the church to be) than against the church itself.