Sentences with phrase «thought of a handful»

For the Youngstown area to have as many churches as we do I can only think of a handful of church leaders who have tried to do more outreach to the communities the churches are actually in and almost none that live in more well off neighborhoods here.

Off the top of my head, I can easily think of a handful of people in my life (all spiritual mentors) who began their spiritual quest after reading Paramahansa Yogananda's unforgettable life story, Autobiography of a Yogi.

«I can think of a handful of films this year that have that, but there's not many,» Gerwig says, pointing to a lack of female filmmakers, who are also not honored as much as their male counterparts.

I recently asked my friend Greg Jackson if he could think of a handful of investments, stocks like Berkshire (which has in effect been a closed - end investment portfolio) that today one could invest in that were one - decision investments.

This used to drive me crazy when I would take my kids to the pediatrician — I'd think of a handful of questions to ask while loading the dishwasher or walking the dog, but after driving to the appointment, keeping the kids happy while we waited, filling out paperwork, and answering the nurse's twenty questions, I would be lucky to remember one thing I wanted to discuss with the doctor.

At the time, none of those feelings of nostalgia mattered because I could only think of a handful of newer games that had the option of allowing your friend to plug in their own controller, and play alongside you.

I can think of a handful of what I consider perfect movies.

Off the top of my head, I can only think of a handful, all of them so - called «party» games like Wii Sports or Just Dance.

As I wrote on the Philipstown.info site yesterday, «I can only think of a handful — half a handful — of humans I've met with the breadth, wit, intelligence, artistic spark, humor and public - minded spirit of Gordon.

The cliché perpetuated throughout popular culture — think of the handful of «Law and Order» iterations or many a John Grisham book — is that lawyers are lone wolves who keep the lights burning in their offices deep into the night, pursuing their cases no matter the expense to their personal lives, health or relationships.

Furthermore, I can think of a handful of directly relevant works Shawn could have consulted.

As I was reading your post I thought of a handful of people I would love to write a note to.

Not exact matches

A better way to get think about «getting press» is to develop a relationship with a handful of reporters, and become a reliable source within your particular industry or area of expertise.

That's the question posed by a handful of thoughtful posts urging ambitious professionals to think carefully about whether their pursuit of success is actually making them unhappy.

So when we looked at the model, we got excited about the idea of what we call «incidental insurance»: Using tech to seamlessly integrate insurance within a handful of moments when it's naturally necessary people to think about insurance.

It's something that we are seeing as a big growth vector for the future and we think we're one of a handful of companies that really have the scale to do it.

I don't think that point of view holds water, but the fact that it's put forward with a straight face makes it pretty unsurprising that a small handful of Wall Street types are going to cling to the notion.

If I were to filter mentions of soccer from my feed, for example, I might be left with only a handful of tweets to read (come to think of it... that might be nice).

Short of getting you a date, here are a handful of companies that think they know how to fill an empty heart.

Check out these predictions, offered from a handful of eminent thought leaders.

They're outliers on at least a handful of spectrums; maybe you're extremely intelligent or highly outgoing and charismatic, or maybe you are compulsive and tend to jump into things without thinking.

If you're thinking about launching a product demo - based ad campaign, there are a handful of essential takeaways you should derive from the above examples:

A lot of people still think of the pharmaceutical industry as a free - spending behemoth that counted on a handful of brand - name drugs such as Lipitor, Viagra and Prozac to make up for all the misses.

For the handful of you who have known me from when this company started, and for those of you who over the last decade and more have heard me frequently spin my vision of the future, you will remember that I always thought that we should build this place to last — to outlast us all!

«If you're a digital native, you should be aware that the Internet may have partially re-wired your brain in such a way that when you meet people face to face, you're less capable of figuring out what they're thinking,» John Mullen recently wrote on the HBR blogs, citing a handful of fairly alarming studies.

Gotcher, for example, thought there were only a handful of customers in either the licensing or the kiosk business.

To battle their way onto the playing field, and attempt to compete with more established hubs and markets abroad, a handful of forward thinking administrations have successfully taken steps to give a foot up to entrepreneurs who want to set up shop in their countries:

There are a handful of metrics I think every business owner should be familiar with, and here is a quick recap of the 5 Small Business Financial Metrics You Need to Understand from our small business resource center.

Remember, it's important to think about total return investing — not just a handful of cute dividends.

These are very interesting stats from AirBNB, so we thought we would share this AirBNB press release with Hong Kong startups: the tourism industry in Hong Kong is growing and besides a handful of travel startups in Hong Kong like Klook and Sam the Local we're looking to find out who else is in this space or if you are looking to get into TravelTech in Asia.

Valley entrepreneurs and investors seem to think that any fallout probably would be confined to a handful of investors and a lot of young, well - paid software engineers who can all go back to grad school.

In the meantime, here are a handful of questions I get most often from investors — so I thought I'd share my answers with you.

Once in «retirement» I don't think you want your dividend income coming in from just a handful of stocks.

Individual investors — or the handful of advisors, such as your grandfather's firm, who are granted substantial autonomy by their clients whose focus is on building wealth — who aspire to long - term success can not afford the luxury of impatience (though they usually think the opposite is true).

The first handful of presidents thought a lot about, as have many people since.

Think of The End of the Affair and A Handful of Dust: both stories about adultery, and both Catholic stories about adultery.

When the eminent physicist Edward Witten rhapsodized to an uncomprehending science journalist about the mathematical structure of superstring theory («I don't think I have succeeded in conveying to you its wonder, incredible consistency, remarkable elegance and beauty»), he was expressing a delight that only a handful of people in the world could ever share.

He first thought that the sermon he was about to give, a sermon in which he was going to endorse a handful of 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls, might earn him a letter from the IRS, possibly even a visit from an agent.

So we thought it would be interesting to shine a light on just a handful of these hidden gems worth watching in your living room.

When you sit down to pray, take out a handful of the contents at random and say thank you for those, adding to the jar any new ones you have thought of that day.

Apparently Bonhoeffer has not left a definite answer to this question, except a handful of random thoughts.

P.S. I do think my Songbook deserves to eventually win for itself a significant place among the works seeking to interpret the overall rock phenomena, but for now it remains a peculiar feature of Postmodern Conservative, and unknown to those who would most benefit from it, the handful of sane pop - culture theorists, and the more general class of intellectually open rock hipsters.

The Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg focuses on the work of one of the handful of trinitarian theologians who have dialogued extensively with American process thought.

But, my mother was raised by somewhat religious parents but I don't think she's been to church more than a handful of times since she wed my father.

Rather than talk about a handful of verses, I think it might be more helpful to talk about seven themes that reflect the open view.

The impact of Principia Mathematica on Whitehead's later thought centers on the issue that its method applied to a very general problem of deducing the whole of mathematics from a handful of elementary formal notions and axioms.

There are a handful that think they are the only ones who have everything figured out correctly, and the thousands of others think they've gone off the deep end.

His poetry was patterned of intense, unashamed bliks, private views, into his own experience, but the praise that followed showed that he had also hit upon universal themes, There was always, of course, a handful of critics who thought Lowell overrated.

A handful of wishful thinking atheists will not change history.

The handful of folks who replied helped fortify a thought I had been having: I am not a «religious» person at all.