Sentences with phrase «really were on to something»

Who knew, when our moms would force us to eat our peas as kids, they really were on to something.

See push back as a sign you may really be on to something.

See pushback as a sign you may really be on to something.

However, the NASA team did say that researchers should leave the door open, just in case Mills really was on to something.

«Other epidemiologists have seen similar results, which is encouraging, since it means we might really be on to something.»

Not exact matches

As ill - advised as that was, he did something really stupid while he was out on bail: He posted on Facebook that he was willing to pay $ 5,000 to anyone who would go to one of Hillary Clinton's book signings and «grab a hair» from her.

Unless you create something entirely new — which is really hard to do — your business or profession is based on fulfilling an existing need or solving a problem.

If you're really serious about finding someone to marry right now, you should be using Match.com or something, where you can target based on very specific criteria, and these are other people who are paid and committed to settling down right now, so if marriage in the next 18 months is your goal, then Match.com is the product for you.

When I get really enthusiastic about something, I count on her to make sure I'm being realistic,» Bill explained.

«The entire strategy of understanding design is something that we really need to work on.»

Women, she said, are great marketers, and tend to be better able to engage potential backers with a powerful story — something that really resonates on crowdfunding platforms.

On the plane here I was thinking about how it's really not that hard to do something extremely disruptive and do something positive for the world if you just apply yourself, and stick with it, and don't give up.

If you think that you can offer something and that you really want to pass on something, then it's for you.»

So especially with making BarackObama.com, that was something we stayed away from: We knew people would scroll, and we really wanted to keep more information on the homepage, make it a portal, and allow for more content to be available on the portal page.

«For the most part our memory is visual, and it works based on novelty for something to really stick out,» he says.

So if we're building a game and think we can do something differently, we can move on it quickly, whereas if we're working with a contracted developer, it's really, really challenging to be able to [do that] because there are contracts involved and the legal side of it.

«It's not something that the data really speaks to, but it makes sense mentoring programs, and sort of tinkering programs, might be effective,» said Alex Bell, one of the authors on the paper.

In some cases, buyers are really angry about something else, or they're just looking to blow off steam and you're the unlucky person on the receiving end.

Though it's called the burn rate, that term doesn't really capture the drip - by - drip unease of spending more money than you're making as you race to build something that catches on before the cash runs out.

«If you're relying on a third party to look for fraud, then chances are really good that, eventually, there's going to be something you're not going to catch.»

You can take a quiz on something that is relevant to you, say gluten - free eating or yoga, and find out how much you really know about the topic.

This is something that I believe makes all the difference of whether you can stick to a daily routine or not... Finding others who also have an interest in a great and productive routine really is probably 80 - 90 percent of what you can do to set yourself on the right track.»

And the only way to do that is to really hone in on just how fast, capable, and wiling your candidate is at learning something new.

That's because they operate on two equally stupid principles: (a) the design which is least objectionable to the most people on the committee will be the best design; and (b) if each committee member gets something incorporated into the design that is near and dear to his or her heart, then everyone on the committee will be happy and that's all that really matters.

There's something strange and touching about a man this intent on reaching the heavens who can pause to marvel at a really high ceiling.

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.

After a relative has slaved to put a really nice dinner on the table, a teenager may say something like: «Mmm, that dessert was really great!»

This is not really something that you can expect people to undertake just in the evenings or on weekends.

«Where some of the competitors are really hanging their hat on teaching you to cook and learning to be a gourmet cook, we really want this to be something that is easy and enjoyable,» said Zbar.

The best path to steady employment is finding something you love and working really, really hard at it, so that when somebody who is paying needs a plumber, violinist, programmer, songwriter, videographer, or accountant, you're on the short list of people being called.

«And what it really does is allow us to participate in follow - on rounds for these companies, which is something the syndicates usually can't do because they're too small.»

«Autonomous docking's still something we're working on, but the capabilities are really there to keep exploiting technology for marine applications.»

«You really have to think long term and build something you believe in and stay focused on the vision and the plan and know it's ultimately going to pay off.»

When you put your entire focus on something that really matters to you, when you can't stop thinking about it every day, this intense focus unleashes a burning desire that can help you obtain what might otherwise be out of reach.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.&raqAre Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.&raqare really in dire straits.»

I remember staring at it on the page and feeling like a boy noticing girls for the first time: There's something really interesting here, but I know there's a lot more to it than I currently understand.

And then later we'll see that that really cool technology enables maybe things that we're doing today to take on something bigger, maybe something new.

Supporting customers too early on means you're slower to develop and fine tune your product, with more emphasis (and budget) on sales and marketing and less on actually making something really, unbelievably awesome.

«If something is really going to be a big hit on the market, it's smart to get protection,» Greiner says.

My students used to come to me at Stanford and say, «I'd really like to do something on my own, but I'm just not ready to take that much risk.

While the Mini is fine for taking notes during an interview or press conference, it's not something I really want to write a full story on.

Great Big Story, a new initiative developed by the best digital minds at CNN, is an opportunity to capture that spirit again and to really be on the frontline of something new.

The second was that, once you set your sights on something big — I mean really big — it takes a very long time to achieve that goal.

And if you're working on something you don't really want to do, it makes it easier because you only have to do it for a short while.

We have them three times a year, and they provide opportunities to work on something that you're really passionate about but that might otherwise be outside of your regular work.

So, with permission, I am laying out everything I know about the Rob Ford Crack Tape in the hopes that a) everyone knows that Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, smokes crack, and b) this knowledge might hasten the arrival of the Rob Ford Crack Tape on the internet or broadcast television, because really, it is something to behold.

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

Adam Seifer, co-founder and former CEO of Fotolog.com, one of the oldest and most popular photo sharing sites on the net, said: «I frequently find myself trying to convince partners, advisees, etc., that one of the biggest risks a start - up has is to not launch anything at all — to get so caught up in talking about what you're going to launch and so fixated on details that it feels like you're making progress when instead what you're really doing is moving asymptotically closer to something that doesn't ultimately matter as much as you think it does.»

«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.

I see inflation creeping up a bit and it «s something to keep an eye on, and I see, by and large, the economic numbers looking fairly positive, including new orders which is really an indication of where the economy is going to be heading in the months to come.