Sentences with phrase «than talk on»

As someone who would rather scrape old gum off the bottom of a school desk than talk on the phone, a little part of me dies when I am told I have to do a phone interview.

Tony does more than talk on behalf of clients — he leverages what POLITICO calls an «in - the - trenches sensibility» to offer expert tactical guidance informed by decades of legislative, political and public relations experience.

But some investors have been doing more than talk on TV about the issue.

He lives about 1.5 hours from me so we had not met yet (I prefer to just meet rather than talking on the phone), although he had suggested it, but since it was right before the holidays other social obligations had to be met, but he had the mid life red flags flapping pretty stiffly — he was SOOO into me before he even met me or talked to me, alluded to some heartbreak in the past year, etc. etc. — but you have to proceed with a little bit of fun and optimism, right?

This is a really dangerous practice much worse than talking on the phone and loads of people do it.

Not exact matches

In the spirit of the series, rather than harping on the shrinking funding, I talked to a number of startup companies — Toronto - based Clickfree and SecureKey and Edmonton - based Empire Avenue — that have been successful in attracting venture capital money to find out how they did it.

A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA's first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department's expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

If you talk more than seven minutes, you'll drone on a bit too much and lose people.

Is there ever really an acceptable occasion to talk to someone older than three in a put - on soothing voice?

She responded to criticism by doggedly sticking to Liberal talking points about growing the middle class rather than addressing the issue head - on.

McRaven talked about being in SEAL training and reflecting on a crew of physically small classmates, none of whom was more than five - feet - five.

On average, Americans hold eye contact for seven to ten seconds, longer when we're listening than when we're talking.

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

Meanwhile, a handful of networks whose business models rely on subscriptions rather than advertising amass all the most - talked - about shows on television.

Republicans and Democrats began this year with ambitious talk of reaching a bipartisan agreement on tax reform, but it has now become clear to most that it will require the investment of more time and political capital than President Obama has remaining.

Announcing your goals publicly is a tried - and - true way of dissuading yourself from weaseling out of them; one study found people who talked about their weight loss efforts on Twitter fared better than those who didn't.

Small - business owners often spend too much time talking about the story behind their product and the difficulties they went through developing their business rather than homing in on their milestones and achievements.

Ongoing political talks In Italy should lead to an interim government, rather than to snap elections, an analyst told CNBC on Friday.

Three years ago, I stumbled on Simon Sinek's TED Talk, which has more than 23 million page views to date.

This year — with some of the more influential minds within the industry, state and federal government, and academia all gathered on his back patio — Jenkins wants to do more than just talk about what can be done.

There's been some talk that rather than have Musk pretending to run the two companies on separate tracks, with the key difference being that Tesla is public while SpaceX is private, Tesla and SpaceX should merge.

More recently, the Google subsidiary made a major move into commissioning content with the announcement earlier this month that it is launching more than 40 TV - style shows on the platform, including some homegrown YouTube stars, as well as traditional Hollywood celebrities such as talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and comedian Kevin Hart.

My current role has me on sales calls several times a week, and I have a standing call with my boss where I definitely talk more than I should.

In Trump's first year in office, the pair bonded over golf in Japan and the US and talked on the phone more than a dozen times, in addition to several in - person meetings.

During her talk at Soho House, Roth cautions the audience on pursuing writing for anything other than the sheer desire for storytelling - suggesting that to do otherwise, leads to defeat.

In the short term, I probably won't be posting much more than «they're recruiting,» because the team won't be ready to talk about what they're working on for some months,» said Ozzie, who created Lotus Notes.

On the new Echo speaker, the one that is a bit more plump and sounds better than the original Echo, you can talk from across the room and ask about musical artists, the weather, or even ask weird questions and you'll probably get a pretty good answer.

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

This means that no matter how often your PR team is out there sharing the gospel or the CEO is on television, Inc. magazine or TechCrunch talking about your company, nothing is more effective than the voice of your employees.

«Your staff, clients and corporations are already on social media and will more than likely be talking about your company,» says Katrina Collier, founder and director of Winning Impression LTD, a London based firm that helps companies with social recruitment.

MuleSoft shares rose 4.3 percent after hours, after rising more than 27 percent during the regular trading session, after Reuters reported the two companies were in «advanced talks» on a deal.

So rather than continue to focus on an internecine squabble, we talked to six of the smartest energy experts around and asked them to program the GPS coordinates for America's clean energy future.

«More people come to Facebook than are in China,» said Facebook's Smith at a talk on digital economy on Tuesday.»

The «Squawk on the Street» news crew discusses the news that CVS is in talks to buy Aetna for more than $ 66 billion.

Both in practice and in his research, the Mexico City native is focused on improving the world, whether through studies on social enterprise and microfinance or a TED talk on brand management and Mexican drug cartels that accumulated more than 1 million views.

In the wake of success stories such as Coolest Cooler, which raised more than $ 13 million on Kickstarter, I'm starting to hear talk that crowdfunding is making traditional financing less relevant.

Rather than ruminating on your weaknesses or talking up your strengths, your best bet is probably to be your own good friend and simply accept your flawed human nature, forgiving yourself your errors.

But EU Council President Donald Tusk said on Sunday he was more optimistic now than after the US election last November after EU leaders held talks with Trump in Brussels.

OpenFin hosts more than a hundred applications on its platform, and the integration means Symphony will be «interoperable» with those apps, the same way social media apps on your phone are able to talk with one another.

Colbert has earned a lot of praise for arming his show with more serious fare, and harder - hitting questions, than what is normal fare on late - night talk shows.

The evangelists of a services economy don't talk much about the fact that Canada spends considerably more on other countries» services than those countries spend on ours.

Morgan is a close friend of Trump's — Trump spent more time talking to Morgan on the phone after the election than he did with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

When International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland walked out of Canada - EU trade deal talks on October 21, it was more than mere political posturing.

Before starting $ 19 - million Oil Changers, a California chain of 37 oil - and - filter - change centers, Larry Read spent more than a year on the road, talking to owners of independent «quick - change» shops from Salt Lake City to Daytona Beach, Fla..

But if you're being interviewed by another person or are appearing on live television, it makes more sense to go in with a basic outline of what you want to talk about rather than a word - for - word script.

Even if following through on this promise is more difficult than Trump admits because of the First Amendment (as I explained in a recent post), the fact that he even talks about such policies and is cheered by his adoring fans for doing so is disturbing.

Customers are talking more than ever — review sites, social media, or on a company blog's comment string — but few business owners are listening and taking it to heart.

When a couple came on to talk about their 16 - year - old daughter, who had been murdered by her boyfriend, they told the host that they wanted the audience to know their daughter's life was bigger than her tragic death.

Developing and protecting the culture is one of the most sacred parts of the SEAL experience, but if you listen to a lot of conversation in the business world, «culture» isn't much more than a soft buzzword that gets put up on a PowerPoint slide once or twice a year ten minutes after you talk about the corporate mission statement or annual strategic initiatives.

«We talk to the people on the floor rather than to the CEO.