Before having a baby I had never
really thought of these things, but breastfeeding really is so much more safer and easier.
I don't
really think any of these things are important in and of themselves, but together in any one painting they achieve a rightness that interests me.
Not exact matches
Here are some
of my final
thoughts — more like observations,
really — on all
things tech, trends and innovation at this year's installment
of CES.
«We're working to both simplify the rental process for everyone and offer peace
of mind to landlords and tenants, and we
think those are
really positive
things to bring to the market.»
I
think first, one
of the
things that
really keeps us awake at night is what we just talked about.
The operations
of a company can be the last
thing that an entrepreneur
thinks of, but can
really help you succeed.
Brimmer: I
think the future
of agencies is in serious crisis right now, and I
think just kind
of seeing a little bit
of what's happening with WPP and Martin Sorrell recently and the way that that model has changed — is
really going to be interesting to watch how
things unfold over the coming years.
«There have been times when I've had a
really busy week and a lot has been going on and I'll sit down on the cushion and then I'll just start crying and I'll realize that I'm so sad about this one
thing, but I had no space to grieve, no space to
think about it; I was zipping from one
thing to the other all week,» says Pennell, who has studied at Insight Meditation Society, one
of the top meditation centers in the country.
Think of social media platforms as different malls, where sure, there are things to buy, plenty of shops, but really people are there to hang out and socialize (think high sch
Think of social media platforms as different malls, where sure, there are
things to buy, plenty
of shops, but
really people are there to hang out and socialize (
think high sch
think high school).
I don't
really think that this is just an age
thing or purely the province
of people who are fundamentally resistant to change.
I
think I'm not a natural - born salesman, for sure, but If I have a product I
really believe in I can overcome some
of the shyness and get through the
things that aren't natural to me.
It's an important
thing for people to understand because I
think, especially today, a lot
of people — we don't want to be a boring person, like we
really want to be interesting people and have interesting lives but the problem is that, that conflicts with what makes a relationship good in a lot
of cases.
But what we do look for, which I
think is a broader version
of the same
thing, are people who are
really in tune with who they are as people.
«I
think that's one
of the reasons why this product has been so successful, because there are few
things more rewarding than watching people taste it for the first time and say: «Oh, this is
really good.»»
One
of the
things we look at is to start to
think about it a little bit differently that basically says we
think there's
really two dimensions to how personal computing is going to continue to evolve.
Early on in our history when
things weren't
really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot
of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission
of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution
of Apple, when he was
thinking about what he wanted his vision
of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance
of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.
I
think the
really interesting
thing that could happen leading up to the presidential election is that there will be rumblings
of third parties.
«I mean, it's a
really big deal, and in terms
of the war I
think the
thing that's important is, you know, in the comic books it's kind
of over relatively quickly.
The number
of people that are paid to sit there and
think deep
thoughts and
really create
things is a pretty small number.
«I
think since,
really, I'm a conservative investor, that experience
of being in debt and also the experience
of seeing
things happen to people who took too much financial risk and got hurt, led me to be pretty conservative — I'm a guy that looks for singles and not home runs,» Bach said.
«When the time comes — and it could come reasonably soon, even while I'm around — and we
really don't
think we can get the money out in a reasonable period
of time into
things we like, we have to reexamine, then, what we do with those funds,» Buffett said.
«As a company you have a responsibility to ask questions, and my impression is that TeliaSonera has not
really thought through how
things work in this kind
of countries,» Szyber said.
Being great at one
thing doesn't mean you're great at all
things «One
of the big lessons is that when
things are going
really well, you can be lured into
thinking that everything's easier than it is.
In supporting our employees, I
think the most important
thing — and it
really comes as a consolidation
of many trends — is how do you make people's work easier?
It can be
really hard to protect your brand, and brand safety and brand awareness
really has to be top
of mind, so couple
of things that you all have been in the news for recently, one was Megyn Kelly just shot a show with Alex Jones, who's very controversial and [CMO Kristin Lemkau sent out a tweet indicating] you were going to pull out
of the episode and I wanted to just ask you how you arrived at that decision and why you
thought that it was important.
Hopefully having a good wallow,
really thinking about your feelings and showing yourself some compassion (sadly, there's no word from Gilbertson on whether that can come in the form
of chocolate fudge brownie icecream) should help ease your fear
of failure going forward, but Gilbertson suggests that you take
things slowly as you move on from a disappointment.
«At the time I
thought it was kind
of pointless, but it ended up
really exposing me to leadership opportunities and showing me that I wasn't good at a lot
of things, instead
of sticking to
things that I was comfortable with.»
«One
of the
things that I
think Nintendo
really hit [with Super Mario Maker] was the nostalgia factor in their marketing,» says Christine Arrington, games analyst at IHS.
And I
really think that if men gave 60 seconds
of thought on a frequent basis to this issue, that would be the most helpful
thing.
So a lot
of the time, investors like to see two co-founders as opposed to one but in terms
of gender and how it plays a role in fundraising, I
think it's just a
really important
thing to tackle head on and look for investors that match you.
It's easy to get sidetracked
thinking of the
things that need to be accomplished, but giving employees your undivided attention during conversations and meetings ensures that you
really hear what they say.
I
think what's going to happen, what is
really fascinating, is that you're going to see this connection between solar and electric vehicles, and I
think that's one
of the more interest
things that not a lot
of people are [talking about].
«I do
think this kind
of homogenous mindset... is a
really dangerous
thing for any company,» says researcher and political polling expert Tom Webster.
«The one
thing that I
really think Facebook has going for them is that the feature set is proven to work on mobile devices
really well and proven to work for people without training,» says Josh Bersin, principal and founder
of Bersin by Deloitte, which advises companies on corporate learning strategies.
I don't
think too many Governments will try to seize your stash
of these
things unless
things get
really bad.
«I
think one
of the
really interesting
things that people are going to see today — and I
think it's something that should be celebrated — is that the president has brought a lot
of people into this administration, and this White House in particular, who have been very blessed and very successful,» said Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary.
«There's a subset
of customers — I
think it's a pretty big subset — that when you're talking about
things that go in or on your body, or in or on your children's bodies, they
really care about that supply chain,» Bezos told me in our interview.
In other words, those happen because those are natural firsts, those happen naturally because
of evolution but can you create those kind
of important moments in your life and it
really comes down to creating doing new
things, always creating — you have to be a little more creative when you get older to create those new
things but those are the
things you
think about which I
think are quite important.
There are lots
of people who
think that if they set up their cryptocurrency addresses as anonymous, and while it may be more anonymous with some cryptocurrencies than with others, is there
really any such
thing as true anonymity online these days?
But when you get to call them stocks and you get stock quotes daily on these pieces
of paper that bounce around put people put numbers on it and volatility and all these other
things where
really it's not that meaningful, you know from one sense if you're investing in businesses and you did a lot
of research and invested in eight different businesses with the proceeds
of your sale, people would
think you're a pretty prudent guy.
The target is a medium term one, so there's a little bit
of flexibility over the short term, and I
think experience shows that in trying to do economic policy and trying to control inflation there
really isn't an ability to fine tune these
things over very short periods
of time, you have to take a more medium term perspective.
That's one
of the
things that I
really think we need to get right.
The truth is, in the grand scheme
of things, most
of the problems you face do not
really matter as much as you
think they do.
Ezra Klein: There is a quality
of being able to say no and being able to shop around and being able to do
things on your timetable that
really matters here, but the other
thing that I
think is interesting there, because here's where I
think possibly liberals can take this argument too far.
And I reckon, it's sort
of interesting for me for private equity in terms
of all we've seen, and what we have seen, where we have seen some misconduct and
things like that,»cause I always
think like, to my simple mind, that the people in private equity, they're the greatest, they're actually adding value to their clients, they're getting paid
really really well, you know, if I was in that position, the one
thing I would
think to myself as I skipped to work was like just «Let's not mess it up.
So but the reason why they've come down I
think is because the actors who
really wanted to you know promote their hard for a solution they would benefit by having a lot
of transactions on the on the blockchain and they would benefit by having high transaction fees because they would you know strengthen their narrative that
things are very urgent but now that SEGUI has been merged even though in practice right now it doesn't make that much difference because in reality the network is not
really congested.
«Imagine if a celebrity like Beyoncé or someone
really well known were to release ten backstage passes on the blockchain... How many millions
of people do you
think would go out
of their way to acquire one
of those
things?»
«One
of the
things I
think that's
really important is we should never underestimate the resilience
of the US economy.
I was
thinking this the other day, when a lot
of the Facebook executives get on Twitter and feel victim - y, they're doing their victim - y dance right now a lot
of the time, and at one point, Boz, Bosworth, when he said, «Maybe people will die,» that memo, and instead
of being like, «Oh god, we
really have to be more mature about this,» their
thing was, «We can't talk now.»
It is true that people often believe
things for bad reasons — self - deception, wishful
thinking, and a wide variety
of other cognitive biases
really do cloud our
thinking — but bad reasons only tend to work when they are unrecognized.