Sentences with phrase «really get that good at it»

He said to me offhandedly that if he didn't work harder, he would never really get good at playing.

Gosh, I'm really getting good at this parenting thing.

Believe me when I say that spending the thirty minutes or hour it takes to really get good at this game is very much worth it.

You can only really get good at it if you lived in Italy during the Renaissance, and you're only really allowed to paint portraits.

We spent quite a bit of time really getting good at crash reporting for C# (C - sharp).»

What I mean by that is really get good at executing the vision you have.

Not exact matches

But a micro-manager won't delegate something unless the person is actually better than they are at the task — 120 % better — which means that nothing ever really gets delegated off your desk.

«I spent so much time at the skate park that I got really good and sponsors started noticing.

Eventually you'll see that these apps that initially, especially like Tinder was very much geared towards hookups, it will end up moving up market and really disrupt the whole traditional online dating area, which I think is the most interesting thing going on right now because as we get better and better at our recommendations, as more people get on the platform, I think people will find less and less a need or desire to use things like a Match.com or Okcupid.

You need to take a good look at what you really have - see the metrics - if you believe that you'll get to where you want to go, you can scale back and then bootstrap.

«Let's say you create a self - improving A.I. to pick strawberries,» Musk told Vanity Fair, «and it gets better and better at picking strawberries and picks more and more, and it is self - improving, so all it really wants to do is pick strawberries.

As it turns out, some of us are really good at knowing when to quit, while others have a hard time getting «unstuck.»

«But also we've found the hiring process is much better if you've got recruiters embedded within the company and they're much more proficient in telling potential employees about some of the benefits and the way the company works and really playing up the positive aspects rather than just saying, «OK, here's a list of five companies that are hiring at the moment; we're happy to make intros to you.»»

«Solutions» include pre-emptive activities such as building long - term relationships with future founders or mentoring at incubators to meet teams pre-seed, plus getting really good at reference diligence, but we still rely upon accelerating the «would we work well together» discussion during fast - moving investments.

Only one thing is really standing in the way at this point: «The biggest challenge to adopting that is really for [wireless] operators to come up with a good way to manage your plan, because clearly you don't want to pay another $ 50 a month just to get a SIM card.»

«If you do this, at the end of a month surely you will have turned 100 - 200 common names into images, and this is really all anyone needs to get really good,» he explains.

«If you sign up to get really great bonus points with an airline, it may not be your best card in the long run if you don't use that airline,» points out Amber Stubbs, senior managing editor at credit card comparison site CardRatings.com.

I got my first big break at Deloitte Consulting when the external consultant I worked with at my first job, with whom I had formed a really good working relationship, called a friend of his there and recommended me.

It was really funny because when I talked to these guys at Apple, I told them we just can't get people on fast enough, and they're like well join the club: we can't make iPads fast enough.

«We've got to couple great experiences and great product with really simple and well - timed promotions,» Target CEO Brian Cornell told reporters at a briefing in New York on Tuesday.

If you're Apple with a cash hoard exceeding $ 250 billion, you've got to be looking at how really well your services business (iTunes, Apple Music, App Store, etc.) is doing, and saying, how do I accelerate this part of my business even more rapidly?

I find it a much better way to get a feel for what's really going on than sitting in my office — OK, lying on my hammock at home — reading reports.

At least once a year, it's a good idea to sit down and examine your credit card terms so you can really see what you are paying versus what you are getting in return.

They want to look at things and say «Listen, maybe there's a better way to do it» and really get their hands dirty,» she says.

Decide on a niche that you want to focus on, get really good at it, build a small portfolio, and do great work to get referrals.

Instead of letting your fears get the best of you or letting self - diminishing thoughts convince you that you are not capable, really work at what goes into your mind and what you think about.

«Steve said that's when he knew Apple had to get really good at metal.

So a good CEO is really great at convincing other people to get on board, even at changing people's opinions.»

Another Reddit user responded: «I understand that some people genuinely have to limit their salt intake as much as possible (McDonald's isn't really the best place to practice that sort of diet, but hey, not my life) but for me, at least, it's easy to tell who genuinely needs it salt free and who's just trying to get the freshest fries they can.»

Most computer makers at the time were all using plastic, but he knew to get smaller, you had to get metal really, really well.»

«I committed myself to learning, working, succeeding, failing at one thing for a lot of years and eventually, I got really good.»

«The best profile is someone who has a really deep discipline — they're excellent at sales or engineering — but they're OK doing a tour of duty for a couple of years where they do all this other crazy stuff and they don't get insulted by it,» Vernon concludes.

So, in short, if you want to give your kid the best shot at success, you should encourage them to get really comfortable with unpredictability.

«There are a lot of ladies telling me, «You know, that's really good what you did for oral hygiene, but I'm getting old,»» Giuliani told Inc. at the time.

As you identify your high - potentials for leadership roles, the ones who will really get their tribes to respond and engage at a high level will listen with this modus operandi: how can I help my follower to be the best person and employee he / she can be?

This one might not be a fair inclusion on the list since fans of this 11 - season classic show never really got a peek at how good (or bad) Norm was at his job.

«For us, the entire process is about doing delivery really well, and doing it with ingredients you can't get anywhere else,» says Caleb Merkl, co-founder and CEO at Maple.

The rats would eventually get really good at it.

List five to seven things about you — things you like to do or that you're really good at, personal things (we'll get to your work life in a minute).

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

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After iterating for 25 weeks, we are getting really good at this.»

So a good CEO is really great at convincing other people to get on board, even at changing people's opinions,» writes Scoble, who adds «a great CEO is clear, crisp, concise.

«Part of what I do is to enhance performance, to really take people who might be functioning well and help them to get to the next level so they can perform at their very best.»

Get really good at fulfilling one product.

And I've gotten really good at chatting with them about how we are doing more than just selling Girl Scout Cookies.

Wait no not that at all, he runs Goldman Sachs Asset Management, «the smallest division at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and usually the last one investors ask about,» but one that is having a moment recently, since it's performing well (both for customers and for the bank) and provides the sort of recurring fee - type revenue that you don't really get in prop trading.

You could really imagine a world in which employers were more efficient, not less efficient, at getting good costs on insurance, on negotiating better prices.

It's a really good time to try and get work in Japan if you're a talented coder of cybersecurity expert at the moment, apparently.

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