Sentences with phrase «taking your eyes off what»

Starbucks famously took its eye off what had made it successful.
When we focus on the demos and on procedure, we take our eye off what we should see as the important ball in the game — having public objects.
«Not once did I sense that he took his eyes off what was best for students in his judgment.»
Normally, I'm totally consumed with what's happening inside our house, but today I couldn't take my eyes off what was happening outside.

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The biggest risk for most business owners is that they'll be so busy running their companies they'll take their eye off the road — and end up in a head - on financial collision before they ever knew what hit them.
Just examine your day with open eyes and determine what took you off course.
John now expresses what he believes is important for his readers to learn as he leads us to take our eyes off «heaven» and bring them down to «earth.»
Instead he only wants to talk about what will get a rise... Does he protest so much that we take our eyes off the real issues?
Berardi has the ability to play literally anywhere in attack, boasting attributes of a winger in terms of crossing and set piece taking ability, coupled with attacking midfielder attributes in killer through balls and topped off by a striker's intuitive nature, eye for goal and ariel presence; this hybrid footballer is exactly what Arsenal need.
I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision
I love the fact that every single birth is completely different but they have one thing in common: after baby is born, mum and dad can not take their eyes off bub for even a second no matter what is going on around them.
So as the plane took off, I settled into my window seat and did what I usually do: I closed my eyes and tried to will myself to sleep.
Folks willing to take their eyes off the skies for a moment can record what plants and animals are doing around eclipse time using the California Academy of Sciences» iNaturalist app.
I'm trying to take the blinders off your eyes and reveal what's REALLY going on behind the scenes.
DA: Here is the main difference between what True Health does and what we see our competitors doing: yes, our customers are physicians, hospitals and health systems, but we never take our eye off improving the patient experience.
What happens is that we «take our eyes off the ball».
But the truth is, no matter how trained our eyes are or how meticulously we group things, we never know what's actually going to take off in the «real world.»
No matter what part Jackman plays, his charisma shows through, and it's not easy to take your eyes off him.
«We must prepare for what the future may hold, while never taking our eyes off current business,» says dealer Kevin Collins.
Touch Tracer Display, which shows an image of your steering wheel controls on your Multi-Information Display, so you can control what you need without taking your eyes off the road
Now, using a state - of - the - art rearview mirror - mounted liquid crystal display system, Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) will be the first automotive company in North America to give SUV owners the ability to clearly see what's happening behind the vehicle without taking their eyes off the road in front of them.
That's not so bad, but you can drain the Fire 7 a few hours faster than that with more aggressive gaming, which is what tends to happen when you put the tablet into the hands of your children and take your eyes off them.
The voice acting is great, although all in Japanese with English subtitles — luckily, unlike some other Koei Tecmo games, when your Lily is talking in Japanese during battle it isn't anything important, just a shout of encouragement, so you don't need to take your eyes off the action to see what they had said.
I have just looked on John Bunker's Twitter media stream to see what seems to hold his work together and apart from his excellent handling of colour, I was very conscious of the angular pointers, many «off «triangle shapes, that seem to rhythmically take the eye round to every part of the collage.
If we let ourselves get distracted by the complaints of some people in the coal industry about other people's insensitivity, whether or not that's what it was, we risk taking our eyes off the ball.
Harrison gets agitated by what he sees and gets really wound up and you can't take your eyes off of him.
And they took their eye off the ball in terms of public opinion, in talking about climate science and looking at what the denial machine was doing.
Although we were not able to find out from the jury what led them to reach that apportionment of fault, we strongly suspect that they found the other driver's driving while intoxicated to be significantly more egregious that our client taking his eyes off the road to steady his groceries.
You know that if someone tries to rip them off, or someone gives them the stink eye for taking too long at the checkout, that they are going to tell that person what's on their mind while you try to hide behind the chocolate bar display pretending you don't know them.
Be alert to what is going on around you and do not take your eyes off the road for more than a few seconds at the time.
But in casting its gaze toward what's next, Google took its eye off the present.
A dashboard - mounted device display directions, trip details, and real - time alerts of what's happening on the road ahead without drivers ever having to take their eyes off the road.
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