Sentences with phrase «say no to some people because»

«I had to say no to some people because we were full up,» she says.

Not exact matches

«There's an opportunity to tell more stories, because that's what really moves people, within photography, and we really want to go into the depths of that when it comes to people of color,» Kissi says.

Because some of these people may come to me a year later and send me a tweet and say «Hey, I think your advice helped, and here's how the company's doing,» and I may actually subsequently invest in that company.

«Because the silencing of voices has helped perpetuate sexual harassment, the country should guarantee that people can go to court to ensure these concerns can always be heard,» Brad Smith, Microsoft's president and chief legal officer, said in a blog post announcing the changes.

A woman answering the phone at Dandong's real estate registration office said the new system was not connected to North Korea, but because several projects had recently been completed so more people were purchasing apartments.

«We do have a provisional patent on the actual heat dissipation methods involved in the device, because we're pumping heat away from the body with this technology and we've actually found a way to very consistently dissipate that underneath clothing to allow people to wear it throughout their days,» said Paulin.

And the third bucket is in personal financial management — because we save people money, a service like Mint is a good place to say, «If you want to save money on your bills, here's a great way...»

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next — and how what other people are saying affects us — that we completely lose sight of other people.

«It was a pain in the neck, but it wasn't devastating because I knew I just needed to call a couple of people and fill those slots next week,» Bu says.

For us because timing isn't really of the essence, it's not because they're nearby right now, the question is how can we help facilitate people getting conversations going and moving offline after you just match, so I think that means some sort of follow up where you can continue to communicate with your matches almost en masse to say, «Hey i'm free this week» or «Hey check out this Instagram photo.»

«Most people are in prison because they didn't know how to make enough money legally,» says Jackson, who has more than a decade left in his sentence at Green Haven.

It also says: «It may have been a mistake to CC me, because I am the kind of person who forces you to spend a lot of time explaining why I was CC'd.

She said she had dipped into her retirement savings to pay nearly $ 35,000 for the classes, because «Mr. Trump is a very respectable person, and I thought that Trump University was a real institution,» she said in the letter to the Better Business Bureau.

«It's not that people are motivated to vote but can't make it because of work; it's that they don't think it matters or don't feel sufficiently informed,» he says.

Going on a witch - hunt because someone says «Bless you» to another employee that sneezed (real example) creates an environment of paranoia and stifled self - expression, without improving how people treat each other.

We're not ditching any Constitutional protections simply because the last person the President talked to today doesn't like them,» Sasse said.

But I think over time because Hinge is getting better and better, you'll be able to use it for a broad array of purposes and one of them will be if you're serious about finding a specific kind of person, it will actually be a great platform for that and still in a much lighter - weight way then having to fill out a whole profile and just using people's ambient information because there's so much information that already exists about people through their interactions that they already have through Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and all these different kinds of platforms that allow us to match you up probably better than stuff you would say about yourself on an online dating site because frankly its more validated and it's more real.

The investigation was prompted by about a dozen complaints concerning the Trump school that the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has found to be «credible» and «serious,» these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was not yet public.

«When I was going on the academic job market, worrying about the campus interview, my friend Matt Seigel told me to just be myself because otherwise, if I got hired as the person I was pretending to be, I would have to keep up that pretense for the rest of my career,» she says.

«Some stores are practically selling generators off the back of the truck because people have been waiting in the stores for the generators to arrive,» he said

As soon as personal and professional browsing habits co-mingle on a device that is used at both work and home, «you're more than doubling the risk [of a security breach], because traditionally what people are browsing on their personal time is usually more susceptible to infection than work destinations,» says Stroz Friedberg co-founder and executive chairman Eric Friedberg.

I smiled and waved and said I was fine, that I was just waiting for my wife to pick me up... the last thing I wanted was to crawl into another person's car because I wasn't feeling well.

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

The problem now is that it's hard to get people to even agree on facts, Baker said, because people choose their own facts and ignore those that are inconvenient.

And I think that I want to listen to people's ideas even more, because I want to understand why they say something.

«One would assume the Apple TV is out on the market either to keep people locked into the Apple ecosystem or because they're still working on a way of somehow improving the attractiveness of it to get bigger adoption,» says Jeffrey.

«It's not so bad in a general election because you have got five years to sort it out and the lies and promises will blow back in people's faces,» Sugar said.

That could be because these services appeal to a small audience of music aficionados — the type of person who would, say, obsessively track down a Japanese import of a Sonic Youth record.

They're not going to say it to your face, but there will be people who believe that the sole reason for your relative's success is simply because they're related to you.

The agency has issued subpoenas to firms and individuals behind specific offerings that it believes might be breaking the law, said the person who asked not to be named because the investigations aren't public.

On Wednesday's hearing, he said that he made that decision because he was one of the few people in the Obama administration who had access to the leaked classified information.

His status as a mere witness is all the more reason to go in prepared through legal counsel — «even if you're telling a story about ice cream, because these are some of the most irresponsible people on earth,» he said, referring to Congress.

People aren't coming to me to say it's impossible to develop anything because you haven't given us enough data.

Other partners at the hedge fund firm he co-founded, Brevan Howard Asset Management, have independently made similar investments, the people said, asking not to be named because the information isn't public.

Blodget: And how do you look at brand versus direct response because a lot of people will say that digital is fantastic from a direct response point of view - tough to build brand.

When we started to have a chief financial officer, an operating person and a packaging person — people that had five to 15 years in the beauty business, I said to myself, I need to be collaborative because these people know a lot more than I do.

Rowley: I have a hard time saying no, just because I spent my whole life hoping that people would ask me to do things.

«Well, the No. 1 reason is because we won't give the foreign people who are already here visas to start companies,» he said.

We say, «Look, if we need two days of assistance from people who are working on projects, we can allow project dates to slip a little bit, because there's nothing more important than our clients.

We're seeing anecdotally a lot of people in real estate and development saying it's been harder for them to be able to attract financing because people are nervous about the future of Calgary.

Is it because of the good work your company is doing, or is it because you said something you shouldn't have to the wrong person?

80 % of people say that they will purchase a brand because they have an emotional connection to that brand.

«Many people wake up after about four hours, because that's how long it takes to metabolize alcohol, then they have trouble getting back to sleep,» she says.

Then West began noticing that people remembered her specifically because she was one of the few black females in the field, and she says she started to revel in her unique status.

While you may think these successful 8 percenters are born predisposed to these talents, research says that successful people achieve their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do.

«Some of our policymakers and some people need to look in the mirror and take some action because ideas are great, but without action, ideas stay ideas and children die,» Hogg said on CNN Thursday.

«We have people on our executive team who took major pay cuts to come here, because they feel they're really participating in the future of the company,» he says.

Lacking a leader, «it's hard for me to be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting people,» said David Friedman, director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.

«When you're managing a company you have to speak in the right way because if I say «me» and «my» and «I,» I'm going to lose people around me,» Scaramucci says.»

Vijay Koduri, who spent 7 years at Google and now contributes to the Xoogler investment fund, says that the loves the community because the people are what he misses most about his old job.