Sentences with phrase «something is meaningful to»

Finally, biology and psychology affects our interpretation of whether something is meaningful to us.

Whether something is meaningful to anyone is affected by a number of things.

Not exact matches

Setting up a company and culture that allows people to do what they do best (Mastery), in the way that they think will bring about the best results (Autonomy) focused on something that is meaningful (Purpose) as part of group aligned in values (Connectedness) is what drives a great and powerful culture.»

«We've been coming to SXSW for years, but [now are] actually doing something that is meaningful for companies, that actually shows and inspires the entrepreneurial spirit across the country in every market,» he added.

It's just become too easy to make a message and a mess that masquerades as something meaningful.

If you wait until the afternoon or evening to do something meaningful for yourself such as exercising or reading, you're likely to push it off the to - do list altogether.

«Whenever you have losses it's hard to say something meaningful,» Alex Edwards, an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, told us.

(The conglomerate's name once was Dutch State Mines, but Sijbesma likes to say it stands for «Doing Something Meaningful.)

I feel the tiny risk of injury or death is greatly offset by the opportunity to do something meaningful.

«It is something we will continue to evaluate, but we are not rushing into doing something that will not provide meaningful benefits to both sides.»

But both parties failed at executing any meaningful partnership agreements to allow that to happen; in fact, it was only last year that the two started codesharing their flights, something that should have happened a decade ago.

But now they have to build engagement, a valuable relationship and long - term connection with the user, and to provide them with something that's going to impact their lives in a meaningful way.

But there's a sense that if they've got 20 years, they want to do something meaningful.»

«In business, there's a requirement to be able to communicate effectively, and in the admissions essays, we really want to see people articulate a concept — something that's important to them — in a way that's meaningful,» says Rotman's Gauthier.

Whenever you do something that's truly meaningful to you, that area of the brain electrifies, Dr. John DeMartini explains.

When you're genuinely gritty, you are pursuing something that is of interest to you and meaningful to other people.

In fact, by investing in its own fleet, Uber will have done exactly the thing Justin Fox knocks it for not doing now: spending its billions on something that represents a meaningful defensive moat to would - be competitors.

Elevating the conversation from day - to - day responsibilities to big - picture vision will help potential candidates see the role as an opportunity to be a part of something truly meaningful, rather than just another paycheck.

Founders often justify burning the midnight oil, as this is their time to create something meaningful and sleep is something that can come later in life — after these valuable years of innovation are behind them.

«Don't do something because you think it's going to be effective, but do something that's meaningful to you and that you really enjoy doing,» he says.

Failure to do this reduces what could be a meaningful piece of marketing to something more closely resembling the «pink it and shrink it» gimmicks of years past.

I am not looking for something for nothing, and in general if I have been treated badly I want assurances that meaningful actions will be taken to ensure that if I do business with you again, I won't be treated so shabbily.

«When I was in the business world, I would say, «I want to do something more meaningful,» and my father would say that when you reach a position of power, you can always do good,» Harf says.

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The platform is especially valuable because it attempts to save you that all - too - important step of taking meaningful data and turning it into something significant and actionable for your brand.

Choose something that is relevant to your product, but make it meaningful.

I'll repeat what I wrote during the 2000 - 2002 bear market: at meaningful market lows, «the tenor of news reports has always been something to the effect that «conditions are bad, expected to get worse, and there is no end in sight.»

But it is also, surely something of a fiction to suppose that workers make any meaningful choice when finding a job and are free to select decent companies.

«I think the desire to act and do something meaningful right now seems to be what's going to win the day,» he said.

We think it thus creates a meaningful set of opportunities that would be difficult for us to participate without something like tokenization.»

Houzz, for example, was a company who paved the way for our aspirations to build something meaningful.

«An approach to life in which people do something every day that is meaningful and satisfying tends to make people happy.»

In contrast, consider that en route from 10 to 350 and as the upward momentum developed, there were plenty of opportunities to pyramid into Apple shares so as to increase your stake to something more meaningful.

However, if you are a single doctor making $ 300,000 per year, did not have to address a meaningful debt burden, and only have $ 100,000 in investments at the age of forty, you have done something very wrong (most likely, you either lived at your means or traded stocks instead of thinking like an owner that made long - term investments) even if you have that same $ 100,000 in paper wealth because you had the skill set and personal opportunity costs to do so much more with your hand in life.

Todd, I think it's time for you to back away from the keyboard until you can actually contribute something meaningful to the conversation other than schoolyard bully insults.

People like «positive reinforcement» and knowing they accomplished something — and what that means to the community... it just needs to be meaningful I think.

«It is difficult to compress to about two and a half minutes something that is meaningful and punchy»

Can't CNN find something else meaningful to report: the number of children in the US that go to sleep hungry; can we ever have a country that is not run by corporations; why has journalism gone down the toilet; why can't we tolerate each other; the real truth — organized religion divides people in this world instead of unitng them.

The door to the mind can only be opened when a person decides to examine something, especially when the information is meaningful and solidly founded.

A «primary framework» is one «seen as rendering what would otherwise be a meaningless aspect of the scene into something that is meaningful» (FA 21), and the frame for all such primary frameworks, the understandings shared by a group regarding interpretive schemata, their interrelationships, and «the sum total of forces and agents that these [schemata] acknowledge to be loose in the world,» constitute its «belief system» or «cosmology» (FA 27).

Telling us that you are Ignoring the questions, deeming them unintelligent or unimportant or unanswerable — those are meaningful responses but avoiding them with platitudes (which I know you yourself have criticized with cartoons) is (to me) not really saying anything even though it makes the pretense of saying something.

We are claiming it for our own, using the concept of «Christian Myth» to mean something valuable and meaningful to us.

Perhaps there needs to be a tiered system where organizations such as this pay an opt out fee, something that is meaningful but much more reasonable than 1.3 million a day.

If this trace of a trend among solid thinkers develops further, the books that result may also be a leaven for those who seek a meaningful spiritual way of life but often have to settle for something that is less than substantial.

If it is to be meaningful or convincing, however, it must include something besides opposition to abortion.

It was something done to me, no more meaningful than a handshake.»

Rather than situating us in a meaningful world, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum bombards us with sensory stimuli and factoids on the assumption that something is bound to hit home.

When one sees his job as something that he enjoys, something to look forward to each day and in anticipation in the years ahead, if he sees the thing he is doing as meaningful and important and worthwhile, then his whole life has meaning.

On the principle of control and direction, nature demands that, when a creature emerges with a brain too powerful for the environment to hold in meaningful stimulation and coordinated response, something new must be done.

We begin with a desire to do good, to see change and to be a part of something meaningful.