Although it seems like this list randomly grows and grows (few people regularly «audit» their contacts list), we usually end up contacting
the same handful of people over and over again.
Final Fantasy VII was well - covered territory by that point, but I realised that while we'd all heard the story of its development, it usually came from
the same handful of people — producer Hironobu Sakaguchi, director Yoshinori Kitase and a few others.
An even bigger loss, Jill and I have found, comes from the potential of customer advocates who aren't uncovered and nurtured because you're constantly relying on
the same handful of people.
Not exact matches
On top
of that, the
same right - wing cons who praise capitalism as the reason that millions
of people have, truthfully, found a way out
of poverty, support politicians who keep wages stagnated, attack the very CONCEPT
of a minimum wage despite the skyrocketing inflation and general cost
of living, and support one war after another that makes a
handful of people VERY rich while millions suffer, and thousands
of troops come home with no legs (and thus, lose their jobs and often never recover).
I'm very skeptical
of most
of the public voices who are loudly in favor
of budget cuts now, because too many
of them were the
same people praising the Bush tax cuts that blew the deficit through the roof (nice work that, turning surplus into record - setting deficit in just a
handful of years).
Most
people in this state would oppose
same - sex marriage, were it put to a vote (which is why four GOP legislators had to be «convinced» with campaign contributions from a
handful of Manhattan billionaires.)
Several senior politicians from Gordon Brown downwards, or upwards, tell me they can attract big crowds at a book festival or at a meeting
of Make Poverty History, whereas if they deliver the
same speech at a party meeting only a
handful of people turn up.
When you search online you know everyone is there looking for the
same thing, whereas if you look out in the real world only a
handful of people are actually looking to meet someone.
And I have yet to go to a talk or conference without meeting a
handful of people who have had the
same results.
I disagree.I been to a
handful of midnight launches and nothing better than meeting
people who enjoy doing the
same thing as you.Not to mention playing the games early in tournaments and who could forget the taco man.Just a great all around experience.
When it recycles the
same half dozen Hollywood personalities and tries to market news about a
handful of art dealers and collectors as fresh stuff, the art world is advertising the fact that it contains a couple
of thousand not very interesting
people who are awfully satisfied with themselves long after their celebrity shelf date has expired.