Sentences with phrase «spent years doing»

Since then, I have spent years doing financial, business, and economic modeling.

You and I are on the same side and I agree with you pretty much, and after years of trying to have honest productive conversations about the problem and solutions, I spent years doing the same with ridicule and shaming of denying delayalists.

I've spent years doing one - on - one coaching with other artists... it finally occurred to me that by sharing these conversations, they could reach more people.

All of our guides have got special preparation to work on tourism and have spent years doing birdwatching tours and contribute to Ebird and other organizations.

He came into our lives later in his life, but he had spent years doing what he loves most, chasing balls.

Buzz is a highly trained search and recovery dog who has spent years doing important work for Michigan law enforcement agencies.

And yet you've spent years doing one - size - fits - all diets and turning a blind eye to those cravings bullies.

We've spent years doing this!

Gordon spent years doing research and conducting experiments on himself to understand the difference between workaholism and high performance.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)-- NIH Research Scholars Program offers second - and third - year D.V.M., M.D., and dental students the opportunity to spend a year doing research at the National Institutes of Health.

Plus, to look «jacked» you'd have to spend years doing a heavy duty rotation of weights.

You can spend years doing crash diets and workout fads but she will help you change your life in a way that you can maintain a healthy, beautiful body weight.

There was no way she could spend a year doing nothing.

1998 I followed my ideas about history teaching and national unity to South Africa, where I spent a year doing ethnography in high school history classes.

You want to get your book written by a pro, who can produce your book with delicacy and speed, so that you don't have to spend years doing it yourself or so that you can rest assured that your ebook will sell and become popular.

In the time it takes a traditional writer to spend the years doing that, an indie writer could already have a pretty good career built with a half - dozen or or more books published.

It all started when Melissa Gonzalez wanted to turn her ideas into a book but didn't want to spend years doing it herself.

And if we hadn't spent that year doing it, it wouldn't have come out like this.

I've spent a year doing the research and prototyping.

You can spend a year doing due diligence for M&A transactions, and learning nothing about practicing law, and yet still get called to the bar.

Not exact matches

Growing your business to a fully evolved midsize structure is a worthy goal, but before spending years trying to make this happen, be sure that your industry doesn't have characteristics that will prevent you from succeeding.

I've watched the behavior of 14 - year - old girls spending 10 minutes to take the best selfie, post it on Instagram, and then take it down when it doesn't get enough likes.

Ask him how many nights he spent away from home last year, and all he has to do is consult a spreadsheet.

Measuring GDP is a bit complicated but the calculation can be done in one of two ways — by adding up what everyone earned in a year, or by adding up what everyone spent.

But an interesting trend is growing: Americans are spending less on wedding planners than they did five years ago, instead opting to customize their events and choose caterers, bartenders, DJs, and other vendors themselves.

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

The former secretary of state wrote that in Pennsylvania, her team had 120 more staffers on the ground than President Barack Obama did four years earlier and spent 211 % more on TV ads.

Much of the growth in recent years has come from household spending, which must slow eventually because so much of that spending was done on credit.

EBRI found that 46 % of retirees spend at a faster rate in the first two years after leaving their jobs than they did before retiring.

Buari spent 22 years at Green Haven for a double murder he always said he didn't commit.

Dr, Klaus claimed that if you constantly applied this idea - of only doing your most valuable work and then spending time creating more of your most valuable work - you could double your income in a few years.

At the beginning of last year, for example, Facebook officials revealed a useful fact: Users spend, on average, seven seconds watching the videos on their Facebook feeds, and two - thirds don't bother turning on the sound.

You can't justify spending the hundreds of hours over a year or more, away from your business to do it right.

One of the best things we did for this business was spending four months in the Silicon Valley at Y Combinator program last year.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

While walking in with lots of questions for those on the sales floor is totally acceptable, customers who don't realize it's the busiest shopping day of the year may feel let down when it's impossible for you to spend as much time catering to their requests, says Mike Wittenstein, founder of Storyminers, an Atlanta - based customer experience and service design consultancy.

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

I sometimes say «why do you want to spend several years, and hopefully many more, of your life working on this problem.»

And who knows how many people would have become more ill, or even died, had Riley waited until he was done with college, or grad school or spent years in the workforce before pursuing his goal?

So how did these folks who spent their college years reading Chaucer or Plato end up becoming exceptional programmers?

We did, after all, spend tens of thousands of years enjoying the vast and beautiful open expanses of new breathtaking landscapes long before we used letters and numbers to communicate.

Most governments of developed countries have spent the last several years attempting at all costs to keep their economies out of recession, and in doing so appear to have taken their eye of inflation.

Does Salesforce's commitment to spending $ 400 million on AWS infrastructure over the next four years have anything to do with Amazon signing a deal to give its employees access to all of Salesforce's products?

There are some significant competitive advantages that should begin to accrue to the U.S. economy in the years to come - energy, manufacturing competitiveness and demographics - though the savings required to fund investment could be redirected to the public sector if policymakers do not slow the growth of mandatory spending.»

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

But, don't forget that narrative thread: When you have spent years devoting energy to creating, developing and finally launching a new product or service, you may find it difficult to turn past your company's «page» and look at its story as a whole.

But Cogito's other co-founder, MIT professor of media arts and sciences Alex «Sandy» Pentland, has spent the past 20 years doing just that.

But the first lesson of business school is to tap into your natural network, and veterans, who have often spent years overseas cut off from regular society, often don't have the contacts they need to make the transition into civilian business.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.