Sentences with phrase «than attempt things»

That is achievable, and it is better to do what you can do well, than attempt things beyond your ability.

Not exact matches

A highly - focused social media and content marketing strategy intended to build a strong brand has a better chance for success than a broad strategy that attempts to be all things to all people.

I would rather attempt 10 things and screw up five of them than attempt four and miss one really great opportunity.

«The one big thing that Bogle knows — and explains so well in this slender volume — is that buying and holding a broad benchmark of stocks while keeping fees to a minimum leads to higher long - term returns than constantly trading in a vain attempt to beat the market.

Keeping things simple may prove to be a more effective way of marketing your business than attempting to launch a major campaign on your own.

The effect of such radically transformative grace, according to the Augustinian tradition and the young Luther, is that the heart loves God above all things for His own sake; in Augustine's terms, we come to enjoy God and use created things for God's sake, rather than attempting to «use» God for the sake of created enjoyments.

While presenting himself as a religious thinker rather than a theologian, he was attempting to do the authentically public thing that many theologians had lost the nerve to do.

Humanly speaking his destruction is the most certain of all things — and the despair in his soul fights desperately to get leave to despair, to get, if you will, repose for despair, the consent of his whole personality to despair, so that he would curse nothing and nobody more fiercely than him who attempted (Or it may be the attempt) to prevent him from despairing, as the poet's poet so capitally, so incomparably expresses it in Richard II, Act 3, Scene Z:

I definitely have opinions about the things you mentioned, however, it's not my business to attempt to grow someone quicker than the Holy Spirit is working in that person.

Because this is so very easily refutable one can regard such attempts as nothing more than pure propaganda aimed at a believing audience use to accepting things at face value.

Seen alternately from the conceptual perspective of existentialism, this mode of being in the world is what is called «bad faith» or «inauthenticity»: the attempt, often profoundly successful, to act as if one were a thing, an impenetrable object — the self that «need be no more original than a stone» (PR 159).

When the state attempts to instill morality, the attempt seems intrusive and even threatening precisely because that work has traditionally been reserved to family, community and religion, to the institutions of our diversity — a thing we have cherished historically much better than we do now, for all our talk.

Mind you that wasn't the only thing you said in that particular thread that led me to the conclusion that attempting to have any real dialogue with you was pointless and I was already well on the way to that point from the countless encounters of you avoiding questions and offering nothing more to support your stance than «I'm right and you're wrong» or «read it again, it's clear».

They are accustomed to think of myth as something false or untrue rather than a poetic, imaginative attempt, through story, to explain things.

The year before that, Kitty tried her paw at predicting the MLB season, and while there were some misses, she did a better job of guessing where the eventual champion Red Sox would finish than basically every human who attempted it, and that wasn't the only thing she nailed that the pros missed.

After failing to do either of those things, they should've kept trying to score a touchdown, but instead opted to kick a field goal, giving the Cowboys an opportunity to win the game in better field position than they would've had if they failed on the fourth - down scoring attempt.

Whether he stays or goes I just hope Arsene Wenger doesn't make the mistake in allowing him leave for free.If he won't sign despite all attempts then he should be sold quickly before clubs lose their interest.We have to demand a hefty fee which I'm sure top clubs wouldl be willing to pay because they'll look at what he did last season.The funny thing is that no player who leaves Arsenal looks irreplaceable in another team.A club which is really ambitious won't predict doom for themselves when a top player leaves but rather they go out there and do the best they can to replace the player.Unfortunately Arsenal has failed when it comes to that.I urge everyone to fear not because we will survive without Sanchez.We should have hope because these two years of Wenger are crucial than ever.

The hosts came back strongly in the second half, when Arsenal took things for granted and started sinking deep into their own half, as Newcastle attempted a mammoth 266 passes, which is almost 100 more passes than their North London opponents, and completing an impressive 221 of them.

A quarterback going down for the slide is likely thinking about few things other than his own safety, but it did certainly look as though he were attempting to kick or trip Reed.

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

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

Watching Delmon Young attempt to throw might be the only thing more horror worthy in a baseball game than having a...

maybe you don't understand that Wenger's words are simply an attempt to recover some of the market value that was lost due to the way they have mishandled his contract negotiations, which means that everyone, once again, knows that we have little to no leverage when it comes to negotiating a transfer... much like we did with RVP, when we sold the EPL trophy to ManU for less than $ 25 million... any reputable team with a sporting director would never have allowed this situation to occur again and if they had heads would roll... if handled correctly the worst case scenario would have seen us get a minimum of $ 65 million for a player of his ilk in the present economic climate and we could have used those funds to purchase the best available striker in the early days of the transfer window... just imagine what outsiders must think about the state of our team if all you did was read the headlines... sadly, things might just might be worse than they think

The other thing that stood out was the amount of Field Goal attempts taken during their Triple Double night; I would have thought players would be shooting more shots than usual.

Johnson attempted nine crosses from the left wing, more than any other player on the pitch, and laid on four chances for his side in a performance that his manager will hope is a sign of things to come.

Trying to guilt you into shutting up is nothing more than further attempted oppression of women by reinforcing their place is not in making things better for the world but quietly cleaning it and happily making it dinner.

Constantly attempting to better yourself as a parent is never a bad thing, and who better to learn from than a friend?

My son now has seven teeth and a few more attempting to come in and YES he has bit me multiple times and every time he does I feel like my heart has stopped because I fear another chunck of skin will be removed from my breasts, but it has not been so bad and he seems to be a lot more gentle with his jaws than my daughter was... and bonus, we no longer have a cat to scare the pants of my children by knocking things over (R.I.P Ozzy) he will be missed but not by my breasts haha!!

every reasonable suggestion that parents should bring their lifestyle to normal and stop forcing their child into doing the things he doesn't want to will most likely make the parents decide to look for another doctor rather than an attempt to fix their mistakes;

Any attempt to create a new framework for our politics should begin with widening the space in which we can make common cause with people who share our values, rather than harping on about the things that separate us.»

One thing is that it takes more to cut running costs in government than cutting numbers of civil servants — something that seems to have escaped the Thatcher government in the 1980s but has been clearly recognized in the current government's much more determined attempts to rein in consultancy and IT contract costs.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

Because her training in India had led her to take a descriptive scientific approach rather than attempting to unravel how things work, Smith recalls, «I didn't know if she was actually going to make a scientist or not.»

The initiative is an attempted, kind of, grassroots intellectual movement to come up with a series of ideas that will move us towards a more stable economic arena, [in] which the middle - class gets more benefits than it is getting now from the wealth in this country, and also puts the country on a trajectory that supports the good things the country has traditionally done.

Page, who like Google co-founder and technology president Sergey Brin, arrived at the event wearing roller blades, added that, although the Internet still is not as robust on a mobile phone as it is on a PC, the G1 is an attempt to deliver a useful version of the mobile Web, particularly because people are more likely to be carrying their cell phone than their laptop, particularly when doing things like rollerblading.

Beyond low Earth orbit, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Experiment (LADEE) will, among other things, attempt to discover the cause of a faint glow witnessed above the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago.

Rather than relying on willpower, structure your environment so the thing you want or habit you're trying to break is so difficult to get or do that won't bother attempting it.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is take a rest or decrease your training volume and intensity rather than artificially attempt to suppress cortisol.

One of the basic things to remember as you attempt to achieve your goal to gain muscle is that the intake of calories must be larger than the calories burned throughout the day.

But raising kids, and society at that time, it was a kind of «fringe» thing for a pre-brainwashed mom to attempt, though we did eat a LOT more veggies and a lot less animals than most people did, we still did eat them, especially as the boys got older.

I can tell you that with the athletes I've consulted and the individuals I've consulted with who are attempting to battle low T, especially males who have testosterone levels that are in the tank — it does take several months and sometimes more than a year to really get things optimized in terms of all the different things that have to take place within your body to get your testosterone levels back up to where they should be.

Leaving the debate of whether or not certain supplements are effective aside, one thing most successful bodybuilders have in common when it comes to supplements is that they treat supplements as a supplement to an already solid nutrition and exercise plan rather than attempting to use supplements to make up for a lack of a solid nutrition and exercise plan.

Anyways, chlorophyll does have some skin clearing benefits but the truth is that it's no different than a green leafley diet Its really just a general thing, helps one maintain a more healthy PH. As most people do not have such a pro-veggie diet, chlorophyll is one of many many supplements that one can take to make attempts at compensating for a lazy lifestyle.

My attempt to organize my apartment / car / life always manages to turn into a three hour session where I move things around, creating a bigger mess than what I started with.

If you try and attempt things that you aren't too sure of, you might have yourself ready for a halloween party, rather than for work.

Also, since no dating site is the same as the following one, you'll need to do things a bit differently than you would typically when you attempt to meet bikers by strategies for the web.

At times it is quite moving, but never less than interesting as these folk attempt to give us an idea about how bad things were, something I hope we never get the chance to experience.

Let's get one thing straight, right off the bat: this is not the incredible gem of a movie that was DePalma's «Mission: Impossible», but it is also significantly... and I mean, significantly... better than John Woo's abysmal attempt at trying to mix oil and water (namely, his own style and the»M: I» movie franchise) that the world must regretfully refer to as «Mission: Impossible II».

The big pieces - primarily the three tracks called «We're Better Than This» - are the predictably inspirational stuff, but they aren't as good as similar things Rabin has done in the past, and surprisingly the score's finest moments come when the composer keeps things down to a simple level and attempts the more touching music, with the lovely piano music.

The Xbox One «is still very much a gaming device, but it's more than that: it's a sprawling, ambitious attempt to be the most important thing in your living room for the next decade,» writes the team at The Verge.