Sentences with phrase «thing people try»

The part in each of us that we feel is different from other people is just the part that is rare, the part that makes our special value - and that is the very thing people try to suppress.

Buddhism, Hinduism and Indian Spiritism are popular things people try out today.

It» not a science book, textbook, rule book, and any of those kinds of things people try to make it to be.

From snakes in bras to drugs in sex toys, the things people try to smuggle through airport custom control are as ridiculous as they are varied.

Not exact matches

«I try to keep up with science, not people who have money to be made by not wanting things to change.»

Some people actually try to do deliberative things whilst sleeping, like turning on the lights in a room.

That includes «trying too much too soon,» «spreading yourself a mile wide and an inch deep,» «trying to be all things to all people,» among others.

«People aren't spending time trying to search for things.

It's the process that encourages people to look at what they already know and try and put things in a new way that creates innovation.

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

Everyone knows that Travis is not coming back; still, Benchmark said a lot of nasty things about TK and is now sitting back and watching other people try to convince them that the best thing to do «for all concerned» would be to sell out.

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.

A lot of people think that negotiating means simply trying to get a better price on things, but that's very naive — there is a lot more to it than that.

Bottom line: Not necessarily the place that the numbers or non-stop notoriety would ever take you, but the right thing to do if you're trying to make an important difference in people's lives.

«We're always trying to rationalize the way we feel about things, and branding makes people feel a certain way.»

I'm smart enough to know that you have to listen to other people and involve the [Ryerson] DMZs and incubators to do a lot of the things we're trying to do, both for me personally and the city as a whole.

But when people live in a constant state of fight or flight that's triggered by all the things they're trying to squeeze into a week, this can lead to really poor decisions and life - threatening health problems.

That doesn't mean there haven't been things on Facebook that we don't want to have happen on Facebook — and we're taking strong steps to correct that — but as an organizing tool for people who are trying to reach communities, it's huge.

Trying to be all things to all people never works.

These «little» leaders who are drinking their own Kool - Aid and who think you can fool all of the people at least some of the time (while you're trying to figure things out) are on their way to a rude awakening and an abrupt collision.

It was just trying to make people do a double - take as they walk by and ask, «What is this thing called Splatoon?»

«They're trying to scare people with ads that say the sky is falling and the market is collapsing and the only thing you can count on is precious metals.»

«Founders who get defensive when you ask them questions or give them unsolicited feedback... and people who try to hide things,» she said, listing founder no - nos.

«What I mean by this is people try and make themselves seem more exciting, so they can sometimes oversell some things or even tell little white lies within very basic parts of their lives.

Also estimate how many people will try to do the same thing on your site at the same time and prepare accordingly, Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics, recently told the Washington Post.

Yet, we give our people permission to try things, to tinker, to challenge.

We will notice the amount of people who come to us with offers of investments, advisory board positions and opportunities to try new things increase with our success.

Managers spend lots of time trying to figure out how to keep their employees happy, but when it comes to sales people they tend to think of things strictly in monetary terms.

Successful people challenge themselves by trying new things, exposing themselves to different cultures and ideas, and surrounding themselves with people who think differently.

They tend to hover over other people's work and try to fix things that could have been done more easily by someone else.

«Having taught at Stanford now for 30 years... one of the things I think that we're failing even in our elite education — and we're failing at Stanford although we're trying — is teaching people to fight constructively,» Sutton said.

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.

«One thing I learned: If you don't respond to something controversial like this immediately, you lose the audience and the attention of the people you are trying to reach,» Opiah says.

«They've tried to be all things to all people who walk in their door.»

Encouragement involves the acknowledgment of a negative thing — that the people being encouraged don't know they're not doing (or trying to do) the thing they should be doing.

«Discount brokers and no - commission ETF trades have really reduced the friction for harvesting losses, which generally is a good thing, but it also means people are trying to harvest smaller losses and risking higher short - term capital gains,» Kitces said.

«One of the hardest things when you're trying to effect change is that — people like this gentleman — are right!

As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

One, the person is not trying hard enough, which is probably not something the person wants to hear; and two, if the person tried, he or she could do great things, which is good.

«It was all creative energy of the founders and just a bunch of people hanging around that, trying to keep things going.»

Even if you have all the conviction in the world, there are few things more nerve wracking than trying to convince people who can help you take your idea to great heights that they want to be in business with you.

«We have a vacation email tool, because the worst thing that people do is to go on vacation and try to stay busy, connected to work,» Huffington said.

«We encourage people to try things, to do experiments.

I think a lot of people who try to do what we did, or try to do other things, they quit, they stop short.

«Our society is way over-indexed on rewarding people when they're successful,» he said, but neglects to help people who aren't successful yet try more and more things.

«Part of what happens is when you've got a watchdog, people don't try as many things,» said Obama.

Judy: Lots of people chase one thing and try to be really, really good at it — much less two things.

If you're trying to transform your organization, the best thing you can do is tell the success stories of the people who are doing it well.

While most research can only identify correlations, things that happy people have in common, we think that trying to do many of these things could have a significant effect on our own personal happiness levels.

A day later he sent me an email: «While I can't please everybody and you can always find people who will criticize you, I'm passionate about news, and yes, at times I've lost my cool in the context of trying to get things right.