Sentences with phrase «thing a year ago»

One can object; didn't I incorrectly believe the same thing years ago, when similarly extreme conditions emerged with no consequence?

Whoopi Goldberg said the same thing years ago.

Nathel says that although the company has been successful doing things according to the way it did things years ago, that does not mean Nathel & Nathel is not looking into the future.

They are still the same fantastic bunch that won the whole thing a year ago..

They did the exact same thing a year ago en route to the Championship Game..

This group won the whole thing a year ago after upsetting multiple teams..

For those who played in 2014, you may think the top of the Power Rankings look pretty similar to where we left things a year ago, and you'd be right.

I would have probably written the exact same thing a year ago.

I did the same thing a year ago but used crown molding instead.

I have such issues that I had to toss many of my beloved antique tapestry pillows and things years ago.

With skinny jeans becoming the thing years ago and never stopping, I wasn't sure anything that didn't grab your ankle would be «in» again, but I'm so glad culottes are!

John Ford attempted this kind of thing years ago, in both The Searchers and Cheyenne Autumn, with far richer, more poetic results.

But because of the Xbox 360 receiving the same thing a year ago, it doesn't get me personally as excited.

You see, when I was struggling to figure out this online thing years ago, he was there for me, on his site, giving it all away.

Naturally wiser souls gave up on the whole thing years ago, back when Michael Fried denounced Minimalism as theater rather than art.

In general, I find that couples come in about two years «too late» — not that it's too late for counseling, but rather if they had worked on some little things years ago, the cycles of behavior never would have gotten so bad.

My mom did the same thing years ago... tore out a half wall.

Not exact matches

«The things that worked a year ago, just six months ago, no longer serve us.»

«There's lots of language in the shareholder letter about things taking time, and that's been something of a theme since Dorsey took over a year ago,» said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research.

I personally identify with Macy after the loss of her dad after losing my own Dad two years ago, but I also identify with Macy's moment of realization that she needs to do things for herself.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

«When I look at all of the possibilities of what can go right and wrong, that's one of the examples I point to when things go wrong,» he says, reflecting on the snafu that happened seven years ago.

Ten years ago, we whenever would have thought we would be sitting where we're sitting today, in terms of the way technology and data has disrupted the industry, and things like: by next year 20 % of brands will abandon their digital apps.

And that's definitely because Apple has validated the thing that we said 10 years ago.»

«For the U.S. to be so much off market, it's going to lead to corporations doing things you would not normally do in terms of shifting revenues offshore, the kinds of inversions we saw a few years ago, etc..»

Fifteen or 20 years ago, it wasn't necessarily the thing to talk about, especially in corporations and board meeting or banks.

Several years ago, Big Data was the new thing turning every venture capitalist on his (or, only very occasionally, her) ear.

«I get bored easily,» he said, «which is one thing that originally drew me to Crossfit years ago.

«Things that would have seemed science fiction to me just maybe five to 10 years ago — like getting a billion cells for each heart — now are doable,» LaFlamme, the investigator on the heart program, said.

Popova began her blog by pulling together all the interesting things she stumbled upon while working at an ad agency a few years ago.

«Several years ago I realized that when I got up in the morning, I would immediately start getting anxious about the myriad of things that awaited me that day.

BM: There is more clarity of focus, and there are a lot of people around who have a very deep domain of knowledge, and that gives us the ability to skip over things we might have tried a few years ago.

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

It's probably a good thing that Werklund has had plenty to keep him busy, as Tervita, the oilfield services company he co-founded nearly four decades ago, and whose board he currently chairs, has faced some turbulence in recent years.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

As bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunker.

«One of the things most founders deal with today that they didn't deal with five years ago is navigating the major platforms — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,» he said.

But being consistent (or lazy) requires you to be just as ignorant today as you were a year ago and I'd like to think that — even at my advanced age — I've learned, re-learned and unlearned a few new and important things.

Businesses still waste time doing things the way they did them 10 years ago.

Think about something you dreamed of doing five or 10 years ago but didn't work to do — and think about how good you'd be today at that thing if you had.

Like any start - up, the first thing Churchill did three and a half years ago when he founded VonChurch was build a senior management team, or as he calls it, «a supergroup» that would be as cohesive and successful as some of the best rock bands.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

Things have changed a lot for Dyn over the 15 years since its inception — and many of the biggest shifts have come since I joined the company almost eight years ago.

Reminds me of your previous insightful analysis of Haematite vrs Magnetite iron ore projects - seems like a light year ago now, how things have changed!

The only thing that surprised me, perhaps because I still think of him as the young Wonk - in - Chief of 20 years ago, is his appearance.

«With the cover thing, I think 10 years ago or 15 years ago, I would have loved to use them but technology wasn't there,» says Gumm, adding this process would have meant hiring a producer, engineer, sound mixer, and artist.

A year ago, I looked at the retailer's entire selection of laptops, and all I found were these huge, ugly, shiny things festooned with garish stickers announcing that they had «Intel Inside» and were «Vista Adequate» and «Y2K Ready.»

Think about one thing you dreamed of doing five or 10 years ago but didn't work to do... and think about how good you'd be today at that one thing if you had.

She did the same thing five years ago, making her the first artist to win album, record, and song of the year twice (according to The New York Times).

[It] outlines a logical sequential ideology as to why things that happened 10,000 years ago still impact us today.