Sentences with phrase «thought of a few of»

It is too long to quote in full here, but one has only to think of a few of the powerful and particular images that situate the joy of the «swinger of birches» within the real and fallen world: the ice like broken glass, the trees bent by weather, the face that «burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.»

Mind you Barney this makes me think of a few of the old jokes that ought to come back.

You can likely think of a few of them and to mix things up a bit, Ubuntu is working on making its way to Android phones.

After the break you can read the thoughts of a few of us here from The Reticule.

Not exact matches

Think about how few people seem bothered by Donald Trump's business failings — in fact, some voters say that just shows he's a risk taker and a dogged pursuer of the American Dream.

And who cares if a couple of people think I'm being an attention whore for talking about this in such a real way if it actually does help change a few minds?

A sports bra seems like a fine vehicle for carrying a few small items at the beginning of a run... but by the end, I can guarantee that all you will be thinking about are the items you chose to put there.

Think of what would happen if we could grow that by even a few percentage points.»

Or if you want to think of it another way, instead of going to the driving range and just hitting fairway woods, instead you would hit a few shots with a driver, then a few with a mid iron, then a few with a pitching wedge...

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

«The time of humongous studios with a thousand people working on a few big games, I don't think we'll see that again any time soon.»

Very few of them actually think deeply enough about what this really means.

What are a few other ways that you can think of to stay on top of your work while you're out of the office?

But whatever the mechanism, the bottom line is that if your brain is a bit frazzled from fear of failure or previous setbacks of any kind, simply taking a few minutes to think (or write) about past successes before you tackle any cognitively demanding task is likely to help your brain perform at its peak.

You can start off small by making just a few changes to an integral part of your business — one you probably don't give much thought to anyway — your Point of Sale (POS) system.

«I think that it's one of those things where a team wins the Super Bowl and maybe you want them to win by a few more points, but it's a Super Bowl winner.

Unfortunately, few finance ministers are brave enough to talk plainly about what people actually pay in taxes and receive in government transfers or what they think is a «fair» distribution of the tax / transfer burden we all share.

You'd think that, after a few years, it's a time that even a first timer starter - upper would get used to suffering through, but that's not how things work in the business of building new businesses.

A few minutes every day spent thinking about the positive elements of your life will contribute greatly to happiness and productivity.

Still, despite what he feels is a weak case against him, he thinks the odds are he'll be found guilty, at least during this first trial; Japan, which has a more than 99 % conviction rate, is also one of a few countries that allows prosecutors to appeal an acquittal twice.

Due to the economic downturn of the last few years, many businesses still need to think twice about spending more money than they have to.

One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.

Employees are encouraged to regularly dissect each other's thinking to determine the root of decision - making, to rate each other's performance using a proprietary iPad app called «Dots,» and to send an audio file to any person mentioned in a meeting — which isn't an outlandish practice internally, since all meetings, with few exceptions, are either digitally recorded for audio or video.

He was a well - oiled machine that simply thought nothing bad could ever happen to him and for 15 years nothing did!This pro was in for the shock of his life when one day he took a few shortcuts and caused a massive explosion nearly ending his own life.

«We think the Australian marketplace is large enough to sustain a few players in this space, but our model is that we will become one of the top three.

You might think of charisma as something a lucky few are born with, but according to a host of experts, being charming isn't a talent but a set of skills.

Sam Altman, the president of Y Combinator, the largest accelerator in the world, refers to long - term thinking as «one of the few arbitrage opportunities left in the market.»

«I think we will see a lot of issues moving more than we have seen in the past few years.»

Back when Uncle Sam thought it would have to import increasing volumes of natural gas from abroad (which was only a few years ago), it built a number of LNG import terminals on the Gulf Coast, including the Freeport facility and the only other one with the same export permit, the Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana.

You could, though, just think of it as the sort of controversial communication that gets people to consider a few painful realities.

Next Monday, Blue Point Brewing, which is owned by AB InBev, is unveiling a new Pilsner called Delayed, a Penn Station - exclusive beer named in honor of the train you thought you were going to take home right after work, but will now be spending the next few hours waiting on instead.

Indeed, researchers have found that getting five or fewer hours of sleep five nights in a row has an impact on memory, attention and speed of thinking equivalent to being legally drunk.

Currently, corporate accounts make up just 3 % of the company's revenue, but Pierson thinks it can rise to 50 % in the next few years.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

I can think of a few companies, quite a few companies, that may think twice before admitting mistakes.

As for her assertion that newcomers should find the process rewarding enough to brave an intimidating tableau of wires and capacitors and diodes, well, just think about how some people claim to love assembling IKEA furniture: the careful laying out of the parts, painstaking examination of instructions, a few false starts and, ultimately, the satisfaction of things slotting into place as the final product takes shape.

Here are a few of the top software selections I've found for helping grow my business and automating tasks I never thought was possible.

«You can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years.

This is just one example of an organization's using its data to drive decisions and dramatically increasing revenue — even thought it has fewer than 100 people and no data scientists on its payroll.

(Shoot, most of the time when we say, «I can't» to ourselves, we immediately start thinking of ways to get around it — that's why so few people achieve their personal and professional goals.)

«A lot of people have... told us that what it helped them to do is think about their role in the group so that they went in with at least a few ideas of how they would orient themselves to the group,» says Guido.

«There are equally important questions in today's economy and financial markets, so I thought I'd condense a few of them to hopefully explain our current situation, perhaps a little more honestly than my «kittens in a pet store» ruse or what «Victoria's Secret» really was,» he said.

The time to think about tax season isn't at the first of the year — it's all year long, and these five strategies can help any small business plan for a simpler tax season with fewer headaches.

Choice is one of the few things that most people leave out of the equation when thinking about all of the reasons that separates those who achieve their biggest goals and dreams compared to those who don't.

Don't be fooled into thinking this automatically gives the agency legitimacy; certification requires passing a few fairly easy exams, as well as maintaining a minimum monthly AdWords spend of $ 10,000 — which is a fairly low bar in the scheme of things.

«Before the last few days» events, I thought trade tensions would subside because the Chinese are very amenable to a trade deal, because there are lots of ways to make a good deal happen... Now we have a very public game of chicken going on.»

Some users might perhaps find this to be the case, but after a few days of playing with the G2, I know it's definitely not a feature for me — I don't think I could ever get used to the scheme.

I've written extensively on the value of the pause — a technique that involves taking a few moments (or sometimes more) to stop and think before taking action.

So, here are a few final thoughts from the warmth of my apartment.