Sentences with phrase «rule of thumb says»

Brian Tracy, a motivational speaker and personal development author, has a rule of thumb he says will «guarantee your future»: Invest 3 percent of your income back into yourself.

BMWs are sleek AF, but rule of thumb says don't buy more car than you can afford.

The lower that ratio, the better, but general rule of thumb says keep debt to at least 30 % of your total credit limits.

A general rule of thumb says that the younger the puppy, the more money it costs.

One rule of thumb says no more than five pounds over their racing weight.

While there is no absolute requirement, a rule of thumb says it often takes at least $ 10,000 or more to build a fully diversified bond portfolio.

(Rule of thumb says stay below at least 30 % of your credit limits for best results.)

One rule of thumb says retirees should aim for 80 % of their final salary.

The general rule of thumb says that you will need approximately 70 % of your pre-retirement income in order to maintain a lifestyle similar to that which you currently have.

One rule of thumb says your bond allocation should equal your age: that is, a 40 - year - old might put 40 % of her portfolio in bonds and 60 % in stocks.

One rule of thumb says your author business should consist of five parts of marketing for every one part of marketing.

Total Weight — The rule of thumb says — the heavier, the better quality.

A general rule of thumb says it's safe to stop saving and start spending once you are debt - free and your retirement income from Social Security, pension, retirement accounts, etc. can cover your expenses and inflation.

-- the rule of thumb said: one powerful application for the appropriate task (no humpdy dumpdy stuff).

Not exact matches

Here's a simple rule of thumb for when to keep your own mouth shut: don't say a thing unless it's going to help someone else in the meeting do their job better.

A rule of thumb I teach students to use is to multiply the number of respondents who say they will definitely use a service by 80 percent.

It can be considered a general rule of thumb to say â $ œthe more, the merrierâ $ when it comes to the size of a team working on link building, social media and content promotion.

«The standard in the industry is lenders want skin in the game,» Mr. Smits said, «and 20 percent is a safe rule of thumb.»

A good rule of thumb is to put 10 percent of your paycheck each month straight into a retirement account, Garrett says.

If interest and loan payments absorb a quarter of the buyer's overall income (a rule of thumb for bankers in the 1960s), then that person's income is said to be 25 percent financialized.

Answering his own questions, Piper says, «Here's my rule of thumb: the more responsible a person is to shape the thoughts of others about God, the less Arminianism should be tolerated.

A rule of thumb for lay persons seeking to open themselves to the arts is this: be persistent in trying to see everything that the artist is saying.

So says Matt Blakenship over at Ricochet, prompted in part by the removal of a Milton, Shakespeare, and Chaucer requirement at UCLA by idiotically ideologue English faculty raving on about «Empire» and such.My rule of thumb for many years has been: a desire for undergraduate major in....

As a general rule of thumb, I would say that religions are at their best whenever they challenge their members to chafe against preexisting identities — for example, when St. Paul says that «in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female.»

«A good rule of thumb is that if two things can breed together, then they are of the same created kind,» the Ark Encounter website says.

So, although he would do certain things by rule - of - thumb experience — plough after sowing, protect the field from birds or wandering animals, etc. — for the most part after sowing he went his daily round with his prayers said, his fingers crossed and a wary eye on the field.

A general and easy rule of thumb for making sure the cheese you buy is lactose - free is to meet ALL of the SCD legal cheese tenets which are: Purchase a block of cheese that is on the below GREAT listing of SCD legal cheeses (based on the BTVC book and BTVC website list of permitted cheeses) and make sure the package says it is 1) aged at least 30 days AND 2) contains only SCD legal ingredients.

«The rule of thumb is, to get into organic products, it's a three - year process for the grower or the company that you're dealing with,» Kindseth says.

Trees are tapped as early as January, depending on the weather, according to Randi and Louise Calderwood, the owners of Echo Hill Farm — a fifth - generation maple syrup farm in East Craftsbury, Vt. «The rule of thumb is that the trees should be tapped by Town Meeting Day,» says Louise Calderwood.

«I wouldn't say to any guy as a rule of thumb, it's better to be a two - way player,» Lacob said.

When you think your child might be crossing the line, a good rule of thumb is to ask yourself, «Would I let the neighbor say these things to me?

As a rule of thumb, you can decide that if the baby has been sad for say 5 minutes together with dad, baby can come to the nipple.

For a generalized rule of thumb, I say start with cooked veggies such as sweet potatoes and peas, or super ripe avocados.

Previously, the rule of the thumb was the «two fingers test,» which said that you should be able to fit two fingers between the car seat strap and your child's chest, but this was resulting in straps that were looser than they should have been.

Chris had been nervous about leaving at the right time but says he knew we got it right because of a rule of thumb I told him from Natural Hospital Birth: «It should take you 10 minutes to get to the car.»

Experts say 1 minute for each year of age is a good rule of thumb; others recommend using the timeout until the child is calmed down (to teach self - regulation).

They say as a rule of thumb that a two year old toddler will know and be able to say about 50 words, but this differs massively from one child to the next.

They also say that a good rule of thumb is that whenever mom has to go, baby most likely has to go as well.

Use this rule of thumb: If, in the future, it wouldn't be okay for your child's significant other to say it, you shouldn't say it either.

«The rule of thumb is that a bottle of breast milk that has been partly eaten from can be reused for the next feeding, within two or three hours,» Gallagher says.

Rule of thumb: Teeth erupt according to family history, she says.

That being said as a rule of thumb a Meta - Theory in International Relations is typically associated with challenging the assumptions made by a theory, for example (see also: Hermeneutics):

«We generally use schools closings as a rule of thumb for whether or not to go out,» he said.

«A rule of thumb among political junkies says that that the actual vote for a third - party candidate tends to be roughly half of what that candidate was getting in pre-election polls around Labor Day,» said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

As a general rule of thumb, Barrett said campaigns should double the 1,250 goal in order to account for routine errors — including duplicate signatures and other unintended mistakes that can see names being voided.

Co-author James Makinson said: «Understanding how small - brained animals like bees find efficient rules - of - thumb to accomplish complex and flexible behaviours has great potential to inform the development of artificial intelligence and advanced robots.

It is based on simple rules of thumb that guarantee a role for man - made global warming in the extreme event, said Dáithí Stone, an attribution scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Other researchers had already developed empirical relations that, on average, tied the growth of a bubble to the number of faces, and the new, exact result might be useful for to putting those rules of thumb on a firmer theoretical foundation, says Sascha Higlenfeldt, an applied mathematician at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

«One of the more exciting aspects of this is that we can make predictions so quickly and turn experiments around so rapidly that we can afford to investigate materials that don't follow our normal rules of thumb about whether a material will form a glass or not,» said paper co-author Jason Hattrick - Simpers, a materials research engineer at NIST.

«There is no rule of thumb on what time to stop eating,» says Zuckerbrot.