Sentences with phrase «thing people talk»

Rising fees seem to be the only thing people talk about in the bitcoin world these days.

A housing bust is the thing people talk about most.

Taking a QB at # 2 where the only things people talk about are his size, intangibles, and needs to sit a year is a dumb reach.

Not exact matches

This is just a page for each person I interact with a lot, where I jot down things I need to talk to them about as they occur to me in between meetings or conversations.

One of the things I love about live television interviews is the intensity of it — two people are literally staring at each other for five minutes straight talking, sometimes tensely.

«The thing about his appointment that I think has not been picked up on by a lot of people who've been reporting on this is when Clarke was under consideration to be chosen at sheriff, there was not any hint from anywhere that he was a conservative,» said Mark Belling, a conservative Wisconsin talk - show host.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

They are Social Currency (e.g., sharing things that make people look good), Triggers (acknowledging that we talk about things that are top - of - mind), Emotion, Public (imitating what we see others do), Practical Value (news people can use) and Stories (information passed along under the guise of idle chitchat).

«I've heard other people talk about this thing called the curse of knowledge,» he explains.

But all contain triggers that get people talking, says Jonah Berger, marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

«Each [driver] is a research - tested principle that increases the likelihood that people will talk about and share things, that brands get word - of - mouth, that services get shared and that videos get passed along the internet,» Berger explains.

People love to feel like they have the best thing, no matter what that thing is, and they'll do way more than talk about it if they really feel like it's the best.

It sends the message that you have better things to do than talk to the person you're with, and that you're anxious to leave them.

Are they about how long they had to wait, had to talk to too many people, the price, «your website says one thing but you say something else», «you say it's easy to do business and I can't even get a price», «I didn't know about your warranty», «you don't know what you're talking about» — right?

And where do a lot of people talk about things?

Friday morning Londoners, who voted by and large to remain in the EU, were walking the streets with a stunned look, and what's even odder (for English people, at least) actually talking to strangers in cafes and on trains, discussing how such a thing could happen, what would happen next, and who was to blame.

Then I started to think of it in terms of probability, which is when that poker craze happened — at least in Canada — where poker became a thing and people were talking about odds and stuff.

«If people say mean things to me, I let them know if they talk to me like that I'm going to walk away or hang up the phone,» she says.

While it's become somewhat out of style to talk about whether someone has «power» or not, the truth is that there are people using power to get things done.

We need, to understand that they are fictional people, who are able to do things that real people can not, but I'm talking more about identifying with their moral code, their values in helping others and doing right from wrong.

«Mistakes will be made... some people will not know what they're talking about, but I think it is so much better than where things were not very long ago.

For one thing, I generally had a pretty good relationship with the people they were talking about, and so my first instinct was to warn my coworkers to start polishing up their resumes.

«All those things I've talked about — heat, damage and noise — are really important to people.

One of the things we talk about at Zenefits is that we want to hire people who have a chip on their shoulder — an intensity to prove they can accomplish something, or prove people who have doubted them wrong.

Get in the habit of talking to as many people as possible, about as many things as possible.

«The best thing you can do to be more creative... is to talk to people who disagree with you.»

To demonstrate integrity every day, irresistible people follow through, they avoid talking bad about other people, and they do the right thing, even when it hurts.

How often did you hear things such as «Don't talk to strangers,» «It is better to be seen, not heard,» and maybe the worst yet, «that person is out of your league.»

So in today's solo round on The School of Greatness, I'm sharing things I rarely talk about — how I maintain hundreds of quality relationships with people who are incredible influencers.

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

As a storyteller, you want to talk to enough people and triangulate things enough to know that you're getting the straight goods.

Of course, there are a number of reasons people talk about and share things online.

I think this is the year people implement a lot of the things they've been talking about.

When I did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time doing digital anthropology... going to chat rooms and getting people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about in person.

«Look around and notice how the ability to freely and easily talk to people helps those who have already crossed their 20s, and how the lack thereof makes things unnecessarily difficult for some,» cautions technologist Sugandha Banga.

«There are a number of things that make Tony a very desirable person to talk to,» added Grant, managing director of the SeaBoard Group.

If there are two things marketers and advertising people have heard and talked about ad nauseam over the last few years, it's the importance of social media engagement and the increasing value of live sports on TV.

In this video, entrepreneur and online marketing expert John Rampton talks about the one surefire thing that could point to a person being a born entrepreneur.

In 10 years, people will still be talking about innovative things that «Horizon Zero Dawn» does.

«People don't talk about Florida and all the crazy stuff happening there, but they focus on Mexico when one or two things happen and it has nothing to do with tourism,» said Martha Mendez, who sells day trips for tourists to places such as the Maya ruins Chichén Itzá.

«Now there is more of a culture of people thinking, «Hey, you should talk about these things even if they are rumors,»» says Floodgate's other cofounder, Ann Miura - Ko.

The Internet of Things comprises billions of connected devices and sensors that talk to people and to each other.

«That's one of the things we've taken from this, that we're starting the process of really going and talking to people.»

«I would say it's important that civilians and police can talk about these things without people running into a panic.

«No matter the size of the company you're talking to, you're ultimately connecting with a single person, who, like most people, probably likes things such as proof of success, kindness, a little sense of humor and not working with jerks.

The fact of the matter is when you talk about central banks, you're talking about powerful institutions rooted in their own management styles and tradition (even if the latter has just now seen a very unusual break) and it's not likely that one person can radically change things, even if he or she wanted to.

Make sure you and your key people can talk about what may be ahead for the business, what the later phases of growth might be, what can go wrong, and how you might handle those things.

Joan Sharp, a Certified Financial Planner with Life Strategies LLC in Wilmington, Del., says money means different things to different people, and some people may not want to talk about their spending habits.

«People think of talking about salary as kind of taboo, but it's a good thing,» said Donna Ballman, an employment lawyer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

There's also entrepreneur, inventor and head of X (formerly known as Google X) Astro Teller's talk, «The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure,» where he explains how X has built a comfortable culture where people aren't afraid to take risks and try new things.