Sentences with phrase «so focused on the future»

The reason for pastors losing touch is that their Gospel is out of touch with the present, as it's so focused on the future.

Ford and its competitors are so focused on the future, because the auto industry is flush with EV and smart mobility startups these days.

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So I'm very focused on that message with a lot of folks because that's the reality in the future.»

With so many immediate priorities, it can be difficult to find time to focus on the future, especially a future that may be a decade or more away.

So it's the job of the board to secure the company's future by focusing on more distant horizons.

Other companies with world - class R&D groups built radical innovations only to see their company fumble the future and others reap the rewards (think of Xerox and the personal computer, Fairchild and integrated circuits, Kodak and digital photography, etc.) Common themes in these failures were, 1) without a direct connection to the customer advanced R&D groups built products without understanding user needs, and 2) the core of the company was so focused on execution of current products that it couldn't see that the future didn't look like the past.

Marketers must also predict the future, focusing on what consumers are going to want and need so they can consistently stay ahead of the curve.

So rather than continue to focus on an internecine squabble, we talked to six of the smartest energy experts around and asked them to program the GPS coordinates for America's clean energy future.

Muting keeps future responses to that thread out of your inbox so you can focus on important messages.

So if you're looking to increase your kid's chance of future success, it's creativity you need to focus on, not just raw achievement.

Hence, each vice-chancellor must keep abreast of all areas of university involvement, but also be focused on future direction and strategy, so as to promote the university's prospects on all fronts.

It's tough to hold your emotions back, but doing so and focusing on the future will save you a major headache.

In the wake of an open letter in January from Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, exhorting businesses everywhere to focus on their social impact rather than simply maximizing profits, they wondered whether Moynihan might feel under more pressure to do so now that tax reforms would be lightening the burden in the future.

Now that the author has so successfully catalogued many of the great ideas of Charlie Munger, I hope to read future works by Griffin that are focused on more controversial subjects at the margins of modern value investing.

What I am saying is that buyer behavior is changing so rapidly that the C - Suite must balance out the equation to attain the deep understanding of buyers that is focused on future orientation.

For the past year or so, Hike has been focused on building in that differentiation with WhatsApp which, despite adding voice calls last year and promising to introduce business accounts in the future, has largely retained a bare - basics approach to chat.

His attention was so focused on the immediate future that he showed little interest in the words and deeds of Jesus, as remembered from the latter's earthly ministry.

We check in for an update on the challenges of the sector, what we've done so far and how that informs our focus for the future.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

Finally, and to reiterate an earlier point, the way forward for this club is to stop paying below average bench players so much money and to focus the bulk of the weekly wages on establishing a dominant starting 11... this will require the club to eat some wages in order to ship some players out, get rid of any deadwood over the age of 21, develop a cutting edge scouting service and put your money where your mouth is for once... I would much rather have a starting 11 that was world - class and give some reasonably paid young blue - chippers playing time when injuries occur than have 2 or 3 world class players surrounded by a plethora of overpaid and underwhelming players... management would no longer be able to sell their half - baked plans to the fans under the guise of «winning now», which any intelligent fan knows is a crap - shoot at best, and instead create a a squad that provides hope for the present and the future... this is exactly the model that has been used by Barcelona, Real & Bayern, so it should be good enough for us... by the way, until Messi & Ronaldo re-signed just recently all 3 clubs weekly wages were on par with ours... think about that for a second or two

I'm betting there will be a much bigger focus on the CL performances and losses than the fact we're 3 pts from the top... While neglecting the fact that the financial muscle they all want flexed so badly is only now a possibility due to the careful planning and years of competing with the big spenders of the league while laying the foundations for a better future.

The Spaniard is currently on international duty with the Under - 21 side at the European Championship in Poland, and so while his focus is purely on that tournament, little is expected to happen with regards to his future.

So I think if he can focus on being a central midfielder, we will have a good playmaker in the future.

never waste CAPITAL LETTERS on an article about Chambers at this juncture... I still can't believe that no one from management has ever explained why such a frugal club spent so much money on him in the first place... we haggle for months and years with clubs for players who could have a monumental impact on the very future of our club but somehow we found $ 16 million for someone who couldn't regularly crack a Southampton lineup (very fishy)... don't get me wrong, I like what he showed at times last season in Middlesbourogh but from the handful of games I watched him play I still have some serious questions about his consistency as a back - line player in the EPL; as such he should prove himself on loan for another season, making sure that he goes to a team that wants him in the starting 11... bottom line, let's not get bogged down with the semantics of peripheral players and focus on the real task at hand = figure out who the hell is going to be our starting 11 for the foreseeable future, which means getting contracts signed, getting rid of a lot of deadwood and bringing in talented players into the positions which truly need upgrading... the rest is just unnecessary noise

It seems as if Arsenal's game against Hull is the last thing being talked about in the media this week, with so much focus on Wenger's future.

I am hoping to have a progressive home and raise my daughter to be open and aware, but I do not think I will allow someone elses child into my home to possibly infect or abuse my daughter... He could certainly be a great guy, or he could not be... He could be a bad guy who could change my daughter by hurting her in many different ways... Sex is sex, but another human being being raised by some one you do not know could potentially be harmful... Even if I know the other childs mother or father... the other child could be not so good at heart... I will just raise my child to focus on herself and her future and her education and wants, needs, likes, and dislikes before jumping in the bed with some body who could hit her, impregnat her, or give her an STD: S

So a 1991 study of marriages that were unhappy and in which spouses did not consider divorce concludes, rather gloomily, that future research should «focus on... possible consequences for being in an unhappy marriage for which one sees no real alternative.»

I want to stay focused on the love and the good food and the empowering ways we can create our life and sustain a healthy eco-system so there is a future for us here on Earth.

I've talked so far about the tendency to short - termism that characterises too much of our society, and the particular failure of our generation to focus on the future.

MAEVA Group, according to Wilson's biography, «focuses primarily on investing in or acquiring companies undergoing major change, or advising companies going through similar operational or financial transformations, so that these companies can better compete and thrive in the future.»

It is an unfortunate fact of life that large scale tragedies will continue to occur, as the earthquakes in Japan and the horrific events in Norway attest, so Elizabeth's advice to other psychiatrists looking to help survivors and rescuers in future events would be to not focus on the therapy they have learned but instead invest time in listening and providing comfort by simple human contact.

«People are so focused on the state's future and concerned about the state's economic growth under governor Malloy and one of the worst job recovery records and higher taxes,» he said after a campaign stop in Shelton.

And while the race so far has focused on job creation and government spending, NOM says the race is «critical» to the future of marriage.

He focused on Europe and after reiterating the party's promise to hold a referendum on the draft EU Treaty he also promised to amend the 1972 European Communities Act «so that if any future government agrees any treaty that transfers further competences from Britain to the EU a national referendum before it could be ratified would be required by law.»

Wysocki said she and her friends were so focused on getting new water for Hoosick Falls, they haven't had time to talk about the future, to discuss whether they will come home for good some day.

«SUNY Poly is moving toward a more fiscally sustainable future through strategic decisions that are ensuring short - and long - term strength so that we can focus on our core academic and research missions,» Sammakia said in a statement provided to the Times Union on Wednesday.

We should focus on the projects and make sure they are completed so permanent jobs are created for the future,» the assemblyman said.

«We're going to focus our efforts on races we can win and hopefully we can elect those folks, so we have a bench coming down the road for future elections,» Dadey said.

But discussions with the Senate have focused on easing the impact on upstate, including possibly settling a minimum wage of $ 12.50 or $ 13 an hour and then tying future increases to the rate of inflation so it would eventually reach $ 15 an hour, sources said.

«Right now, we're focused on passing a responsible budget that cuts taxes and invests the state's resources in education and infrastructure so we can create new jobs and help hardworking families have a future here in New York.»

«The meeting is largely future - oriented, and focused not so much on law enforcement use, but on admissibility in court,» Steven Hyman, co-chair of the committee and director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, wrote in an e-mail to Scientific American.

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So, in 2002, the Institute partnered with the Burroughs - Wellcome Fund (BWF) to design a lab management course focused on teaching scientists the «people skills» they would need in the future.

These issues are very much on the minds of policymakers and funding agency administrators... so much so that an explicit and measurable focus on training — scientific and soft skills — may well become a review criterion at NIH in the near future, even for pure research grants.

«Future work in my Ph.D. research will focus on further investigating the activation of monocytes so we can clinically exploit this immune pathway,» she said.

«If so, our findings highlight a point of entry, where future interventions can focus their attention to help reduce the effects of maternal depression on children's psychosocial development.»

Future research will focus on refining the results in this study with longer time series, and extending the results to regional sea level, so they can better predict what will happen in your backyard.

Short - term oil demand is still growing strong and will continue to do so through the end of 2020 despite the market's increasing focus on electric vehicles and the forecasted future plateau in oil demand, according to new analysis from IHS Markit, a global business information provider.

These sweet visions are nice, as they can remind us what is possible, but focusing so much on the future can take us out of the present.

«Forest bathing calls for using all of your senses so you are practicing being present in the moment rather than focused on the future or worrying about what might happen or regretting what took place in the past,» says psychologist Elizabeth Lombardo.