Sentences with phrase «reading about»

One of the most enjoyable aspects of reading about events that shaped history is getting a better sense of what actually happened.

«I was doing a lot of reading about small and medium - sized business being the drivers of the economy.

I'm not certain, but I didn't like reading about it from a Google Adwords campaign.

After reading about the Pure Barre techniques, she took a chance and signed up for her first class....

Makes it a lot clearer than just reading about abstract concepts.

I started reading about the stocks they'd suggest and figured I'd take a try at it.

«I haven't played with a Surface yet, but what we're reading about it is it's a fairly compromised, confusing product,» Cook said.

I, too, just wanted to share my personal net worth because I've been so interested in reading about others.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

But yes, I'd like to be reading about you finally paying off that last bit of mortgage debt while I'm sitting on the beach sipping lemonade later this year.

One Googler said that the company is a great place to see, listen to, and meet with people who he grew up reading about («Never in my life have I met so many people with a Wikipedia page than in the last year!»

Reading about artificial intelligence is fun for Cuban.

The article [from Harvard Business Review] is on Sir Alex Ferguson, the most winning coach of any soccer team in the world, and I was interested in reading about his success and management ethos.»

But my personal favorite reputational tool is this one: company managers and employees should ask themselves, when making decisions for the company, whether: a) they would feel comfortable telling their mother about that decision, and b) they would feel comfortable reading about that decision on the front page of a newspaper.

It's hard not to feel a bit competitive after reading about all these young entrepreneurs.

For example, Bowers created an «About» page with her name in the URL, since people would be more likely to search «Mary Helen Bowers» than «Ballet Beautiful» after, say, reading about Black Swan in the newspaper.

After reading about it on a social bookmarking site, he signed up and put the suggested??? 2 in his account.

You procrastinate over chasing your own aspirations because doing the things on your own and creating your own story of success is far more complicated than reading about someone else «s one,» he writes.

They said they found out about the event after reading about it in newspapers.

«You practically can't pick up a newspaper or magazine without reading about the impending collapse of the travel - agency industry.

After reading about Tan Le, the co-founder of Emotiv, and her vision of a world in which machines respond to our mental commands using implanted sensors [«Reality Bites,» December 2008], I couldn't help thinking that this is the same kind of hype Dean Kamen engaged in when he predicted that entire cities would one day be built around the Segway.

Eric Dahan, co-founder of InstaBrand, a social media marketing agency, spends his free time spearfishing and reading about quantum mechanics.

«Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got.

When I find myself in an unproductive phase creatively, I look to others for the inspiration, more specifically talking with or reading about other creative minds and what they do to find inspiration.

«What you're not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs and listening in on people's phone calls or inappropriately reading people's emails,» Obama said from the East Room of the White House.

You can't visit a single website without reading about it.

After all, the ad was relevant to the site — many people reading about tech might be looking for a career change in that same industry.

Reading about the Elon Musks and Jeff Immelts of the world leads us to assume that business greatness means little sleep, and even less time with loved ones.

Reading about this incredible group, you just might get a breakthrough idea yourself.

However, in my three decades of experience coupled with reading about markets before my time, the only strategy that I see standing the test of time is to buy solid blue chip dividend - paying stocks from diverse industries, hold them for the long term, and diversify them properly with a judicious allocation to bonds and cash.

Your ideal assistant would have a natural interest in these topics and would spend time on the job reading about them so he or she can give you a sense of larger trends and issues that might affect your business.

«I was reading about things that were of concern to me, the environment, hunger, animals, human rights.

Imagine yourself reading about it in the newspaper.

I've been reading about it.

There's also a difference between reading about lessons in an online article and actually experiencing them firsthand — so be prepared to do your best learning as you go through these challenges.

I could be wrong, but I suspect people waste so much time reading about procrastination, time management and personal productivity because they're procrastinating.

Business editors can't resist passing judgment on new or unknown companies; reading about the then $ 2 million business I detected no seeds of greatness.

After reading about the 2011 famine in Somalia, she created the Rescue Travois, a simple and inexpensive transportation device to help families travel safely across inhospitable terrain.

«Don't worry about reading about how to do and all.

In August, I wrote that those stories you were reading about the US presidential election being close were fiction.

«We both loved to travel and started reading about how other people were traveling the U.S. and the world while working from home,» says Dan.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

Which would have a bigger impact on your intention to buy a particular product — reading about it in an ad or trying it out first hand?

I like reading about history because you can learn from these experiences.

I get inspired reading about the technologies and trends that have yet to become commercialized and mainstream.

I remember many year ago, when I was starting out as an entrepreneur, reading about many successful entrepreneurs who had ADD, or at least thought they did, and feeling left out, almost jealous.

Earlier this month I was reading about the decline of RadioShack, a onetime Goliath in the retail world.

The doctor came up with the ground - breaking technique in 1974 after reading about the high rate of choking deaths in restaurants.

So, in theory at least, serving anti-abortion ads to women of child - bearing age who have been reading about abortion online and who come near an abortion clinic is a spot - on example of how marketing should work when it's well tuned.

After taking a very deep breath and then reading about the success of open book management at other organizations, I started to relay more specific dollar amounts to the team.