Sentences with phrase «than other things do»

Bethanne Patrick (@TheBookMaven) with «Willa Cather: I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.»

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As a business owner, I find that there are few things more valuable than being compared to what other businesses are doing so that I can learn from and even copy their best practices.

Rather than dwell on the problems, however, the magazine launched a special «Economy of the Future» series that aims to spotlight case studies of people and companies who were doing things right, and how they could act as examples to others.

The same thing goes for most business entities that want to do business under a name other than the company name.

I use it almost like a check list and if some things are more important than other, they are placed earlier in the day so I know I'll get them done.»

That's why success means doing things differently than other people.

While other sharing - economy companies, such as Airbnb, take an «ask forgiveness rather than permission» approach, Scorpio and her co-founders wanted to do things by the book.

It's a positive thing if you understand the obligations involved in responding to an invitation to be a speaker: the obligation to share your thoughts if you know more than the other people in the room, and the obligation to not share your thoughts if you don't know more than the other people in the room.

So we didn't get too far other than things like wait times.

Terri said it was clear that her daughter picked things up much faster than the other students did — especially in math.

From our CEO through our management ranks, there is a stronger appreciation for respecting our clients and customers, and respecting the lessons learned from the crisis and post-crisis that signify soundly that our company gets it and strives to do the right thing more so than other companies.»

So, other things being equal, it is better to spend money on doing something good for people (e.g., providing someone with a job) than it is to spend money on mere machines.

More often than not, it won't be during the time I've set aside for creative work, but will instead be when I'm already trying to do three other things.

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation,» she has written before recommending that, if you really want to feel jazzed up after a break, you should proactively schedule challenging or engaging activities rather than just planning to chill and take things the days as they come.

And the main thing we're going to do that others didn't do is make sure we're more than fully capitalized before we kick off.

One of the things that makes us feel weak as negotiators — and it's those of us who feel weak that are likely to go looking for advice — is the sense that the other side has more information than we do.

Depending on what your primary goals are, you may find that one or more of these tips work better than the others; be sure to refine your approach over time, and don't be afraid to change things up.

It's the same thing once you get to work — before you know it, it's noon and you've done nothing other than respond to email.

The note then runs through a bunch of things ranging from pricing power (the incumbents could, and in some cases already do, provide tiered access at different price points), size (they could buy up disruptive rivals) and access to data (some markets are easier to break in to than others).

But in Simmons» case, his writing is a loss leader for other things that he is making money from, rather than going through a third party the way newspapers and other media outlets do.

He wanted things done a certain way, challenging other people to work harder, work longer, and sometimes to do more than they thought was possible.

While I am encouraged by NBC's response to date, I am in awe of the courage my client showed to be the first to raise a complaint and to do so without making any demands other than the company do the right thing.»

Verne Harnish, co-founder of Entrepreneurs» Organization, the largest association of top entrepreneurs in the world: «Your job is to find that front domino, that number one thing that if you could accomplish, [that] will knock over the other 98 and get more done than the other 98 combined.»

«If there are more talented executives from one organization rather than the other, there will be a temptation to say, let's do the King Solomon thing and just split up the management team 50 - 50 from the two legacy organizations,» says Dattner.

Katsuyama: It made it harder to find those people after the book because the book added another element to why someone would want to work here, other than doing the right thing.

You can't disrupt an industry simply by doing something «a little cheaper» than competitors — that's neither a rationale for starting a new business nor a sustainable business advantage, as others will simply do the same thing.

It's great to understand every aspect of your business, but be realistic — there are others who can do certain things a lot better than you.

There's no single event, other than it was time for me to do my own things.

The one thing we've noticed is, there haven't been a lot of completed projects that someone paid for and does something more than present a spinning cube or other geometric shapes.

We've done some interesting things to figure out how many job candidates we should be interviewing for each position, who are better interviewers than others and what kind of attributes tend to predict success at Google.

«By refusing to act decisively at an early stage, they in a sense perpetuated the crisis, creating a situation where in the end the euro - area politicians had no other choice than to do the right thing,» Mr. Kirkegaard said.

The other worry in these stories seems to be that these investors are somehow doing the wrong thing, straying outside of their proper category, by investing in private rather than public companies.

Comey sanctimoniously writes, «Other than mistakes in the way I presented myself in the July 5 public statement in front of the television cameras,... if I could do it all again, I would do the same thing.»

Other than that, the best thing to do is to keep out of their way by providing as frictionless an experience as possible!

Everyone understands by now that Tesla does things differently than other automakers.

On the other, you want things that are particular enough to your demographic that at the end of it, you get actual active subscribers rather than people who will just cancel as soon as they realize they didn't win.

I need the various income streams in order to do other things, other than my job when it's time to go.

It can be all too easy to get wrapped up in the online world that you forget about doing other things you enjoy more that cost you far least than online shopping.

It also doesn't share data with skill developers (essentially the thing that got Facebook in hot water over Cambridge Analytica) other than «what they need to execute on the skills,» according to Brun.

It's a great thing that an individual can sit down and construct something and share it with millions of people around the world; almost nothing else other than code and technology gives you that ability to do that.

Co-operation through NAFTA has created a North America where Canadian, American and Mexican companies do more than make and sell things to each other; now, our companies increasingly make things together.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

There is nothing you can do as regards these threats and challenges other than to stay positive that things will work out well for you.

There is nothing you can do as regards these threats and challenges other than to stay positive that things will work well for you.

IMO, things * really * tend to go amiss when they do link building for sites in (non-Indian) languages other than English.

There is hardly anything you can do as regards these threats other than to be optimistic that things will continue to work for your good.

If I remember my economics correctly, an extension of Ricardo's theory is that countries do not have to have an advantage over other countries in a particular area, just that they are relatively better at one thing than another.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

And there is so much more you can do with RE than most other things!

I have heard people say that Christians act like they come off better than others, well Atheists do the same thing.