Sentences with phrase «think doing the best work»

He would like them to be largely abolished simply because people thought they did a good work when they «have brought so many silver images into the churches».

Though not a huge fan of Ralph Fiennes, I thought he did his best work since «Schindler's List» in «The Constant Gardener» and deserved some attention.

I used to think I did my best work in silence, but disco saved me from writer's block recently and now I'm totally addicted!

Not exact matches

I know what you're thinking: If interleaving works better, why do we tend to practice one skill at a time?

«We don't think it's a consensus call that the Duvernay will work out exceptionally, but we're of the view that it's better than what the market has priced in.»

If you think you've been doing outstanding work and you deserve better compensation, there are steps to take before you walk into your boss's office.

We are a group of 1,100 retail operations out there trying to work as best we can as one big team, and I think we do it very well.»

«I don't mean you shouldn't set up a Facebook store, but if every post is about selling a product or pitching a deal, I don't think the medium works well.

«Everyone will tell you they have the best people and we like to think we do too, but we are able to deploy the best people because we have tightly controlled business systems that allow us to use the best people to do the work that most requires their talents.

«I spent all this time hiring lawyers and half of them worked out and half didn't,» she says, «I thought, «there must be a better way to think about this.

Ultimately, building a dedicated community from the ground up is hard work, but if you find the right location, lead by example, think about cultural fit, create impactful events, and don't overcomplicate things, you'll be well on your way to building a lasting professional community.

If a top - of - the - line product or service doesn't work as I had hoped, I often think, «At that price I really expected something better.»

When Sajid Javid [Culture Secretary] started looking into this we thought this could ruin all the work we've put in; or it could help it do really well.

He goes on to say, «They get outside of their to - do list of short - term priorities and they realize that the real key to creating more margin in their life isn't about working faster, or somehow «prioritizing» better, it's about learning to think differently.»

We need to do whatever we can to think better and with most of us struggling to just get through the working day, it's no surprise that the concept of a thinking vacation would be so appealing to so many.

McChrystal decided to meld both approaches within his team: «We tried to take the best of what we do, put it together with extreme adaptability, and change the way we thought and operated to make it work.»

Dig South and these apps are evidence that the best innovation often comes from improving something simple, something that you think doesn't work as well as it should.

Specifically, it's always a good idea to review what worked, what didn't work and why, and think about what you will do in the upcoming year to learn from past challenges and build future strengths.

Government isn't working as well as it once did so «it does fall, I think, not just on business but on all other areas of society to step up,» he tells New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Partly they criticize you because it's a way of letting off steam, but mostly they do it because we all think, at least some of the time, that we can do a better job than the person we work for.

We do a lot of competition partnerships with other accounts that we think have unique offerings and work well with us.

«I've found that when I've done my best work as an actor it was only after I pushed myself to be better than I ever thought I could be.

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 youThink 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 youthink about how good you'd be today at that thing if you had.

I don't think putting together like - minded teams in Canada will be as difficult as making that broader group work well together.

Employees want someone who thinks they can actually do good work, and then sits back and lets them do that on their own.

One young woman who'd been an active and impressive contributor to the conversation answered: «I want people at work to think I'm better than I am; I don't want them to see how I really am!»»

In bigger firms, more people said they thought their workplace IT systems were damaging their ability to do good work.

On the other hand, he allowed, Reyes Holdings does employ 17,000 people, and he added, «I like to think that in every market where we compete, we're the best place to work.»

The ability to think past the day's to - do list and work with the future in mind is what will help a company grow in bigger and better ways.

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 youThink 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 youthink about how good you'd be today at that one thing if you had.

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In this case, after a key meeting or deliverable, ask them how they think they did: what worked well and what they could have done better.

«And trust me, no company would want us working for them if they didn't think it is a good idea.»

«Just as you would expect, you often do your best thinking [when] you're off hiking on some mountain or something and you get a different perspective... or you're reading something that's not connected to work.»

I also asked them questions such as, «Based on my strengths, what do you think would be a great job for me» or «Where have you seen me do my best work?»

EASTWOOD: Well I think yeah, sometimes you can have overly dramatic music and I started writing music basically because I saw a lot of... I had a lot of composers come in and work for me and they always wanted to dramatize certain things and take it over the top sometimes and I didn't want it over the top.

And they said well, you know, we don't think it'll make any money because there'd been another woman boxing picture that hadn't worked out too well though I thought it was a pretty good film

I don't think that it's money well spent for the taxpayer, and I think our loan programs work well without subsidy, and frankly, I don't think it's going to make dent in things.»

Everyone might think they have the best people working for them, but sitting down and doing some objective evaluation on the kinds of players you really have inside is difficult.

A good quote on scaling back is by Alexander Graham Bell: «Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand, the sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.»

We had so much work to do on Mr. Skin.com that the thought of another site was overwhelming... but at the same time I realized we have the best group of employees we've ever had, and we realized we had an opportunity: Who has better infrastructure, better knowledge, better everything than we do?

But think about just the most basic level, people who come to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, about 100 billion times a day to share content or a message with a specific set of people, and I think that that basic functionality, people understand because we have the controls in line every time, and given the volume of the activity and the value that people tell us that they are getting from that, I think that that control in line does seem to be working fairly well.

ON THE VALUE OF SURROUNDING ONESELF WITH TALENTED PEOPLE If you're in an environment where you're not learning as much as you think you should be, if you don't have the people around you who you think are going to inspire you to do the best work that you can, then think about changing something.

Well, I'm here to tell you that these proposed solutions did not work out like I thought they would.

All our companies, you can't go do business in a country if the country doesn't think that they're going to be better off having JP Morgan there, and that we're not a good citizen there, we're not bringing value there, it's not going to work.

Even if you think you would do better work without the distraction of having to make friends, a job without them can be lonely and boring.

Instead, Sari Sairanen, health and safety director for national union Unifor, doesn't think the problem will get better until governments themselves step in to provide better child and elder care so that workers have options outside of just missing work.

It stands to reason that distracting yourself from negative thoughts might work, but the details of the best way to do this might surprise you.

«With Airbnb, it works much better for a much longer stay, but I think the hassle of it and much personal experience can be quite daunting if you only have a one - or two - night stay in a city you don't know,» Berrington said.

The high freedom Googlers are given to recognize one another as important and for doing good work fosters a culture of recognition and service, helping Googlers to «think like owners rather than serfs.»