Sentences with phrase «thought of a handful of people»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

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

I don't think only a «handful» of religious people, for example, make irrational decisions based on faith.

Most people think that having a handful of raisins or craisins (dried cranberries) are a healthy snack.

We often think that competitions like the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Series and other must - win competitive environments would be filled with more pressure than running a 40 - yard draft, kicking footballs, catching passes and other drills in front of a handful of people.

I find it both mildly disturbing and amusing that you think that the entire beef eating population, some of whom have died after eating pink slime by the way, should somehow feel bad for a handful of people who had no problem at all whatsoever pushing such a disgusting product onto an unsuspecting populace.

We should better ensure that a new agenda will be pursued whereby every member will have the opportunity to vote in the primary so that it will be more representative of the thinking of party members which ordinarily it supposed to be than when you have a handful of people who turned opportunists overnight and could not see any objective than maximising their returns.»

In a handful of instances, PEF members had their completed ballots sent back to them after they filled them out and thought they sent the envelopes to people who will count them.

«If we want to save this republic, I think that we need regular people to go into politics,» he told the crowd at General Assembly, before sipping a pale ale and taking a handful of questions.

«What I know is that 12 million people watch this programme and I reckon out of those people a handful are probably MPs and people in the Lords and it really is important, I think, that what MPs realise is that you need to go where people go and understand why they go there.»

Send a personal email or text message to a handful of people you have been thinking about recently and have not been in touch with.

As I think I state pretty clearly in the article, omega 6 are healthy in very small doses — nothing like the high amounts people consume in the Standard American Diet or even on a few handfuls of nuts every day.

Other than a handful of currently - active athletes who have come to our facility for training, I can't think of a single person who, when asked what they're goals were, mentioned anything about strength.

Too often, however, people think that they can continue to consume the Standard American Diet (high in animal protein and fat, and low in dietary fiber) and somehow avoid all the SAD's harmful consequences by downing a few handfuls of vitamins and supplements now and again.

[Makes single, tiny brush stroke] It gets very old very quickly, and while a handful of people have done it pretty well, I just thought, No.

Some people might think that this is one of those situations where an actor says he's going to retire, but ends up coming back for a handful of encores.

I'm sure the book is lovely and poignant and the thought of an aging courtesan and the boy who can't get over her is sad, but if there are only a handful of people willing to shell out the bucks to watch it, then Hollywood declares «period dramas are dead» and in reality it's just another case of no one wants to see a boring stuffy movie.

But I think that was equally balanced by a handful of times where I thought it was pretty neat that either I was able to respond to someone or I could say something that meant, like I said was important to me and people were responding to it.

After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

It's really just a handful of very loud people who think they're being picked on, aka, have low self - esteem.

I am truly honored to have been selected by Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal as one of a handful of investors that Jason thinks are «Smart People for Investors to Follow.»

And who would've thought that this handful of volunteers would turn into a network of dedicated people willing to sacrifice their time and money to fulfill a mission that is sometimes as heartbreaking as it is heartwarming.

While most people would obviously not jump at giving many of these foods to their pets there are a handful mentioned above that many wouldn't think twice about.

«I thought by the fourth month it'd be dwindling to a handful of people, because that's how a lot of readings are,» he says.

There's obviously some great potential to book groups of award tickets, so I think these bonuses could be utilized perfectly for people who might be looking to take a large family trip to Hawaii or to anywhere in the United States where they would need to book a handful of tickets.

Plus most people stick to playing a handful of heroes anyway so I don't see it being that big of a deal however I do think hero prices should be a bit lower.

It's surprising to think that only a handful of developers have taken on the inspiring «Photo Mode», and I'm here to argue why more people need to put it in their games.

It seems like a handful of developers have left (or are contemplating leaving) for the «independent» market because of greater flexibility, artistic license and, hey, some people realize that bigger budgets often suppress creative thinking.

I defy you to find more than a handful of extremely forward - thinking people who, when they laid eyes on Wolfenstein 3D, imagined that future FPS games would ever feature players infiltrating concentration camps, watching Nazi euthanasia programs, and finding the remains of human experimentation that made them think about Josef Mengele.

The discussion about the climate science is fairly brief, but I think that the book would have been even more convincing by citing more broadly, rather than keeping referring to a handful of central people.

Other than a handful of people who appreciated my efforts, I think all my time was spent in vain as 90 % of the people there held a level of dogmatic certitude that was unassailable by logic.

There is good and evil in the world and although I've met a handful of people I'd truly classify as evil, it's my experience that the majority of evil deeds done are by ordinary people who think they're somehow acting on behalf of a higher good or bringing a brighter future closer.

Knutti states that» Only a handful of people think about how to make the best use of the enormous amounts of data, how to synthesize data for the non-expert, how to effectively communicate the results and how to characterize uncertainty.»

«There are a handful of people and organizations who have tried to cloud the debate... they have engaged in this 11th - hour smear campaign, where they have stolen personal emails from scientists, mined them for single words or phrases that can be taken out of context to twist their words, and I think this is rather telling... Those advocating inaction don't have the science on their side, so they turn to this last minute smear campaign.»

A few powerless critics sounding off on a handful of blogs is radically different from the consensus people in POWER seeking to stamp out all remaining independent thought.

There is more of a move towards the Internet because you do have a little bit more freedom of choice, people do have — when it comes to television, they find they don't need 700 channels, they just need a handful of channels that they watch all the time and that they are willing to pay a monthly price for that, it's most of the time less than cable, and I think that's an interesting other notion that traditional services with the judicial pricing is fading out in favor of, and I think that that was another piece that Mary Meeker brought up, is the idea of the subscription that subscription services on the Internet are also kind of all the rage being able to subscribe to things that you receive on a regular basis, Office 365, Acrobat, they are all on subscription services, a very model of how we purchase these things is changing as well, and that's all due to the Internet.

Essentially, my take is that legal design thinking is about making people's lives and experiences better, and the legal design summit overwhelmingly based this on a handful of key principles: (i) focus on the user (i.e. identify the user and focus on their needs), (ii) experiment (challenge the status quo), (iii) be intentional (understand organisational culture and values and align your actions to these).

«I think I was one of a handful of people in the class,» recounts Isaac, now a leading Canadian expert in the field.

When people think that the economy is going to take a turn for the worse, they've got a handful of options as far as what to do with their money is concerned.

Thinking to receive only a large handful of notes from people expressing their dreams, I was completely overwhelmed with the response of over one thousand letters, some of them up to ten pages long.