Sentences with phrase «spent years thinking»

These are the actions of a man who has nothing to lose, and who's spent years thinking about the everything he has lost, turning it over and over in his head, until only one solution seems sensible: Make them pay.

Theyve spent years thinking that if they just help their partners change their habits and attitudes, or that if they just organized the home differently or set up their schedules differently or communicated differently or stood on their head and spit wooden nickels, that they could fix things.

I have spent years thinking all my problems were either in my head or that it was because of overloading without taking any breaks, and that all I needed was a good rest.

I also like «hoist on your own petard» I spent years thinking it was something to do with being stabbed with a sword, but it actually means being blown up by your own gunpowder.

Dropping everything to spend years thinking about cosmology could be called self - indulgent.

Many people don't realize that their student loans are actually in default and spend years thinking the loan must've magically disappeared, or the student loan fairy came and paid off the debt.

People spend years thinking about buying real estate - but many never take the first step.

Not exact matches

Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.

González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

It was the first time in 13 years that anybody other than my family had actually spent 30 minutes thinking about my well being.

She admits to naively thinking she'd be able to turn a profit right away, but for each of the company's first four years she spent about $ 30,000 more than she brought in.

One board member, who had run a large marketing agency, took things into her own hands and spent a year going around campus in stealth mode, talking to deans and other board members to see what they thought about the institution's brand.

Due to the economic downturn of the last few years, many businesses still need to think twice about spending more money than they have to.

A great deal of spending on infrastructure, the One Belt One Road for example, which is a massive infrastructure project — trillions of dollars a year for the next ten years, and they are building roads, essentially think of Marco Polo on a bullet train, and that's what we're seeing.

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.

As you think about where your team is headed next year, spend some time asking the questions above in relation to each employee.

Summer is almost over, and it's already time to start thinking about the holidays — otherwise known as the biggest spending season of the year.

For the past year or so, Hsieh has spent countless hours thinking about how to fix this place.

With retirees increasingly responsible for their own financial security, more are thinking of spending their golden years abroad.

In fact, 29 % of respondents in the recent poll think that environmental spending should decrease, which is up from the 9 % who felt that way two years ago.

He was also the first guy to spend 20 years thinking of ways to make shipping more efficient.

But as Gen Xers start preparing for their golden years, they should also spend time thinking about their own legacies and what they want to leave behind to their children and their communities.

Why spend your early years toiling away in Corporate America, the thinking evolved, when you could circumvent it from the get - go?

Livingston made a lot of money, but she also used a variety of strategies to save big over the years, such as tracking her spending and automating her savings, but it was one mental trick that made the biggest difference: Think about purchases in terms of cost per hour.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

I think if you can spend a few years at a fast grower with a great «promote from within» culture that's a good risk - reward balance.

I especially thought I had high emotional intelligence from a leadership perspective; I spent years supervising and managing manufacturing teams.

While it's true that small expenditures DO add up (spending $ 3.50 every day on a coffee drains nearly $ 1,300 a year), you should be thinking about the $ 1,300 not the $ 3.50.

I'd say earlier this year we were thinking that this second half of calendar 2012 would be a little bit more robust for enterprise infrastructure customers, just because the spending levels have been so low.

Gibson thinks the ad spend in Canada might level out by the end of the year, since he expects Coastal will be satisfied with its market share by then.

Robert Kozinets, who spent years teaching in the U.S. before joining the Shulich school, can barely contain his glee at the thought of having a Target near his home again.

They have to get them from someone who has spent 20 years thinking about it.»

Brown spent a little over a year thinking, incorrectly, that he could source heme by harvesting the root nodules of soybeans.

If someone wants adventure and new experiences, they are better motivated with the thought they could withdraw their RRSP contributions in five years to volunteer in Africa than with promises of an old age spent in Fort Lauderdale.

Companies might have simply ramped up spending in late 2012, thinking some incentives on capital expenditures might expire in the new year, says Caranci.

If you never know what people are really thinking, you could spend years spinning your wheels, only to see your business grind to a halt.

I think one thing that is missing from the article is the question of where you plan to spend your retirement years.

Now that T - Mobile has spent two years disrupting the wireless industry, executives are thinking the pay - TV market may also be in need of a shake - up.

Well a more likely scenario is the one I laid out on this blog 4 days ago, where Trump doesn't get everything he asks for, and there are some spending cuts made, so the plan costs $ 25 trillion not $ 35, but I thought it was just over the course of 10 years.

«I grew up in L.A., and I spent almost 30 years of my life there, and I spent years of my life stuck behind the wheel, thinking about how to make this better,» he said.

We also think spending is being supported by the impact of cheaper gasoline, since the average Canadian household is spending about $ 600 less per year to fill their tank.

I am extremely lucky to work in a job which causes me to be thanked countless times a day to which i have always replied with «no problem» or «no worries» and although my customers never seem to mind it drives me crazy mostly because I spent many years learning to speak and have spent many years teaching my children and think the constant use of one or two phrases over and over is limiting so just recently I have tried to use different phrases such as «your welcome» and «my pleasure» and anything else which springs to mind and is more suited to each scenario.

As a result, I've spent most of the last year thinking about how to accomplish that (and do it well), how to keep those reps fed with leads, how to keep them motivated, and how to optimize their process and results.

True, but I think not enough investors understand this point as everyone has spent 3 - 4 years freaking out about higher rates.

So, you've spent months or maybe even years searching for the perfect small business idea, and now you think you've found it.

Think about it this way — utilizing a 4 % withdrawal rate means that 60 % of your portfolio's value likely won't have to be spent for more than 10 years.

I think we will get some version of the so - called penny plan to reduce spending as well (penny plan = hold flat nominal discretionary spending, or reduce it or 1 % each year until the budget is balanced).

While you might think their spending is flat, I think it's better utilized,» said Mark Dean, who worked in R&D for 34 years at IBM and was a member of the team that created the first personal computer in 1981.