PLEASE wasie
your time talking to yourself about me.
and then I ended up staying for a long
time talking to them all about ice cream.
The kids helped me a bit with the napkins, and we spent
time talking to them about these measures we were taking to make less waste in the lunchboxes.
Now I could spend
my time talking to you about the government's failure to get our economy moving again here and the failure of the international community to resolve the ongoing problems on the continent.
When I write Irresistible dating profiles for singles looking for love online, I spend a lot of
time talking to them about what they are the most passionate about.
The first
time I talked to him about that scene, he said to me «you know I can sing, right?»
Independent publishers like Faber & Faber and Canongate, both of whom I spend
time talking to about the impact of digital publishing (though not for money), are trying hard to remain relevant, and initiatives like the new electronic publishing service, Faber Factory, are a sign that they understand the changing market.
When my kitten outgrew the smaller of the two litter boxes I initially bought for her, this employee spent
some time talking to me about the different litter boxes the store carried and suggested litter liners as an up sell — along with a lesson she learned from owning her own cats, that involved beginning with liners early so that the kitten would learn it wasn't a toy.
The music is always coming from spending a lot of
time talking to them about what they're after, what they're hoping to accomplish with the game and through tons and tons of play testing.
My aunt took me aside after that first conversation and she spent
time talking to me about whether or not I should study law.
This last week I have spent
some time talking to you about the Pain Cycle and Peace Cycle in Terry Hargrave's Restoration Therapy model.
Example: «Fun
time talking to you about being a relocation expert!»
Not exact matches
The most effective salespeople, for instance, have been shown
to only
talk about 30 percent of the
time — the rest is spent listening.
«The high - level women I
talk to very consistently say they spend a lot more
time than their male colleagues did getting
to know people, getting
to know
about their personal lives,» law professor Joan C. Williams tells Fortune, seconding the idea.
Consider how much
time politicians, educators and researchers spend
talking about how
to teach the next generation
to be innovative.
Teasdale points
to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their
time during conversations
talking about their own viewpoints and tend
to self - promote when meeting people for the first
time.
So, instead of worrying
about it, concentrate on what you want
to communicate, such as asking good questions, not engaging in
time - wasting small
talk, and looking people in the eyes.
Autonomy: Can't hurt
to talk about any
time you were a «self - starter» or worked on deliverables without much supervision.
A Snap employee told the
Times that the company was looking at ways
to educate employees on financial management before the IPO, such as bringing in professors from Stanford
to talk about how employees» lives can change after working for a company that goes public.
The most
talked -
about media response
to Wolf's performance came from New York
Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has risen in the public eye by providing often - unflattering insights on the president and his staff.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Team Penske, which made it the perfect
time to talk to Roger
about business, leadership, and what he believes has contributed the most
to his long - term success: people.
«People
talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of
time, but even 50
to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the
Times.
Despite that, almost every insurance company I
talked to was spending an incredible amount of
time and money trying
to get people
to think
about their insurance company more often.
«It's great
to know all that, but don't waste
time talking about the organization and forget
to connect yourself back
to it.»
«The technology is just not going
to be there in this 10 - year
time frame he's
talking about.»
«Every
time I
talked to anyone
about the trip, I included the disclaimer «it's only my third break since Amicus was founded».
In referring
to 1964, Abrams is
talking about the landmark Sullivan vs. New York
Times case, in which the Supreme Court established what's known as the «malice standard» for libel.
I spend a lot of
time with startups, and I hear many companies
talk about their approach
to sales and their interactions with customers.
You can also think of this model similar
to how Dan Sullivan of the Strategic Coach
talks about how you need
to spend most of your
time doing the things you are best at and enjoy doing that you can also make money doing.
«Everyone
talks about the importance of being willing
to fail, but more importantly it's being willing
to have enough humility
to recognize ahead of
time that you don't know all the answers, that you do need other people's help.»
In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things
about his new job is that he now gets
to spend a lot more
time talking to people on the front lines.
I'm not just
talking about Square's losses ($ 154 million in 2014, which the company's on track
to match this year), its disastrously expensive deal with Starbucks (which cost it $ 28 million in 2014), or Dorsey's other CEO job at Twitter (which, as the Square prospectus drily notes, «may at
times adversely affect his ability
to devote
time, attention, and effort
to Square.»
While the company has
talked about wanting a piece of the European pie for some
time, investor still reacted negatively
to the news.
Any
time someone
talks about checking luggage, I feel like I'm programmed
to tell that person Southwest checks your first two bags free.
It's better
to have 1,000 online connections who read, share and
talk about your content with their own audiences than 10,000 connections who disappear after connecting with you the first
time.
Talk to your nonprofit leads
about how you can save them
time, and you'll have a captive audience.
• Speaking of
Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks
to her six years as an assistant
to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,»
talks about why it was so important that
Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way
to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is
to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»
And when she gave her reason
to the media, Leslie didn't
talk about spending more
time with her family.
I've been spending a lot of
time lately
talking about how fastest - growing startups should negotiate when they are trying
to hire experienced, relatively senior talent (especially in the sales area) for their companies.
BAA, the U.K. airports operator, is in
talks to sell a half - share in a group of warehouses and offices around Heathrow airport for
about # 600 million ($ 1.18 billion), the
Times newspaper reported.
For a long
time we had other people
talking about our brand, and we weren't managing the narrative that we wanted
to get out there.
Every
time I hear people
talk about how networking didn't work for them, I discover it's because they have never done a deep - dive on the relationship - building process relating
to their networking.
And make sure
to meet up with your real friends IRL
to talk about how great it feels
to be done with Facebook, for real this
time.
Speaking
to The Irish
Times, Kenny said, «European leaders need
to be over here
talking to Republicans, Democrats and the administration
about what membership of the European Union means and the relationship that it can have with as powerful an entity as the United States.»
I believe you should keep compensation simple and spend more
time talking about how
to get the orders.
«If investors spent less
time listening
to the
talking heads on BNN and CNBC and more
time studying history, they would realize that there is little value added by obsessing
about economic growth,» Murray Leith, an analyst at Odlum Brown in Vancouver, wrote last fall.
Netflix often
talks about its growth, but Hastings» speech is only the third
time in the company's history that it has mentioned total hours viewed, according
to Barclays.
Say you're prepared
to talk about a
time you led an initiative
to increase efficiency.
«A lot of
times people will just
talk about what they're working on or turn
to their neighbor and ask them,» says Bacigalupo, (who, by the way, was recently featured on the cover of Inc.).
He found they spent anywhere from 70 %
to 90 % of their
time in meetings, but «when I asked what they were doing
about making meetings better, almost all of the leaders of large corporations that I
talked to just sort of shrugged their shoulders with a resigned air of defeat.»