Sentences with phrase «told i'm good at»

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At the orthotics store, they told him: «The shoes feel so good, but they're hideous.»

(There's an SNL skit where cast members joke that the best thing you'll learn at a fake internet college... is to not tell people that's where you went.)

I'm not really good at selling subscriptions,» she told the Nieman Journalism Lab.

Though she often hinted at her regular job — admitting that her husband says she drives too fast and follows too close, as well as telling a customer she loves making left turns — her passengers didn't seem to catch on, although they admitted to being big fans of Patrick on the track.

«We knew the new product tasted just as good as the old, exactly in line with what fans had expected,» Greg Guidotti, vice president of meals at Kraft Heinz told Fortune.

(An executive at Blind told the publication anecdotally that he knows of other startups who are promoting positive stories on Facebook, calling the tactic «probably the best form of awareness building, community building, and user acquisition there is.»)

«Trump is no Lyndon Johnson,» says Robertson, «and while he is better than Obama at working congressional leadership, my friends tell me there are already antagonisms at the staff level between the Speaker / majority leader in the Senate and the White House.»

Similar to Michael Wolff's tell - all, A Higher Loyalty will likely provide an inside look at the workings of the Trump White House, as well as Comey's experiences working under the previous two administrations.

Even experienced VCs will tell you they have to make educated guesses, and sometimes rookies are as good as veterans at picking winners.»

«When we discover that our experiments have stopped being productive, let us pivot to a new, fundamental strategy that can allow us to do better experiments,» Ries told a rapt audience at South by Southwest a few years back.

Of course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canuck.

«Watson is able to give us faster, better matching of patients to potential clinical trials that our oncologists wouldn't have otherwise be able to see — and I sit with our oncologists who work on this kind of thing,» Christopher Ross, CIO at the Mayo Clinic, told MobiHealthNews in an interview.

After threatening to possibly meet North Korea's provocations with «fire and fury» on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters on Wednesday that «Americans should sleep well at night, [and have] have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days.»

At Maveron, the other partners were really good at pushing me out in front and telling entrepreneurs about how great I was rather than talking about themselveAt Maveron, the other partners were really good at pushing me out in front and telling entrepreneurs about how great I was rather than talking about themselveat pushing me out in front and telling entrepreneurs about how great I was rather than talking about themselves.

«Thirty billion Lactobacillus sounds good, but after going through the stomach acid, only about 43 of them survive,» Ian Orme, a distinguished professor of microbiology and pathology at Colorado State University, told Business Insider.

We are told that with this fund the Province will have the flexibility to offer strategic incentives where necessary to secure key anchor investments in Ontario's interest, help support growth, and create well - paid jobs at home».

And they're probably also pretty good at getting senior management to tell them what it is they want to know and what is the scope.»

«Let's say you create a self - improving A.I. to pick strawberries,» Musk told Vanity Fair, «and it gets better and better at picking strawberries and picks more and more, and it is self - improving, so all it really wants to do is pick strawberries.

«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.

The company's BE-4 engine, the thunderous staple of Blue Origin's propulsion business, has demonstrated that it «works, and works well,» CEO Bob Smith told CNBC's Morgan Brennan at the 34th Space Symposium at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

«Today's image provides a better, clear look at the complex,» a representative for DigitalGlobe told Business Insider in an email.

«What remains to be seen is the game plan, the sequencing, the processes involved as well,» John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School, told Bloomberg Television.

And yet — here's where things get interesting — Canadians are far better off than one would tell looking at our dismal productivity performance over the past 20 years.

Western - based global brands such as Starbucks and Unilever have done a remarkably good job at telling their social stories — think about 100,000 Opportunities and the Dove Self - Esteem Project.

But Morneau himself is aiming to pull off a terrific feat — keeping Canada competitive in trade with world markets while at the same time telling his G20 colleagues this week that «taxing the rich is good economics.»

«The good news of this recovery this year is that the outlook is positive for both oil - importing countries and oil - exporting countries,» Jihad Azour, director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the IMF, told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Monday.

Al Pittampalli told me, «In deciding your next step, ask one question: What can I become the best in the world at?»

U.S. stock markets aren't offering the best opportunity and investors should taking bets against them, a chief information officer at a London - based investment manager has told CNBC.

«But also we've found the hiring process is much better if you've got recruiters embedded within the company and they're much more proficient in telling potential employees about some of the benefits and the way the company works and really playing up the positive aspects rather than just saying, «OK, here's a list of five companies that are hiring at the moment; we're happy to make intros to you.»»

«The difficulty that Mercata faced was that it wasn't able to capture great discounts and, in fact, the search bots like Ask Jeeves turned up better prices than Mercata,» Andrew Bartles, senior e-commerce analyst told CNET at the time.

According to Brandi Bennett at HostGator.com, maintaining a blog on a well - hosted website, or volunteering your time and skills, shows instead of tells the community, and thereby builds expertise and trust.

«It's well known on campus that there are certain people who are sexually aggressive, and that information is conveyed through informal channels of communication, particularly among women,» Helen Price, a senior at Yale, told Business Insider.

«Overall, we believe that growth is just simply not good enough, not good enough to reduce high unemployment still, not good enough to boost middle - class incomes, not good enough to drive poverty reduction,» Lagarde told reporters at the beginning of the semi-annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank.

The better they are at telling these stories, the more credible they'll be, the more value they'll add to the customer, and the more calls they'll make to high - level stakeholders.

Trump told reporters in a brief conversation aboard Air Force One that he had meetings about healthcare reform in Florida at the weekend and that the effort to sell the proposal was going well.

«How could you have a well founded concern about the protections that are available without having looked at it (privacy shield),» Paul Gallagher, representing Facebook, told the High Court.

«While OPEC are doing really well in terms of compliance with their current deal and are likely to provide strong words of support for continuing some sort of an arrangement going into 2019, they will be talking about how to taper down the scale of the support at this May meeting,» Shah told CNBC Tuesday.

At one point, the two met at Bell Media studios before DiGregorio was to appear on television, and O'Leary told him to «put forward his best performance» since the suitor would be watchinAt one point, the two met at Bell Media studios before DiGregorio was to appear on television, and O'Leary told him to «put forward his best performance» since the suitor would be watchinat Bell Media studios before DiGregorio was to appear on television, and O'Leary told him to «put forward his best performance» since the suitor would be watching.

Naomi Gleit, vice president of product management for social good at Facebook, told Fortune that the social network wants to make donating to a nonprofit «seamless.»

Because of previous budget cuts as well as sequestration, the Air Force has already moved 12 C - 5s and C - 5Ms into backup aircraft inventory, «which means we still have the aircraft but lost all manning and funding to operate them,» Air Mobility Commander Gen. Carlton D. Everhart II told lawmakers at the end of March.

We caught up with Hawk at Activision Studios in Santa Monica, Calif., and in between Shred test runs, he told us about what's next, and how social media has made his business bigger, better and, somehow, even cooler.

«Americans should sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days,» Tillerson told reporters on his plane after a stop in Southeast Asia.

It was really funny because when I talked to these guys at Apple, I told them we just can't get people on fast enough, and they're like well join the club: we can't make iPads fast enough.

• The reason, Janelle Gale, VP of HR at Facebook, told Business Insider, is because determining compensation based on employer - candidate negotiations simply rewards good negotiators.

Even better than these two subscription models are the kinds of subscriptions that go on forever, or at least until a customer tells it to stop.

«We've got to couple great experiences and great product with really simple and well - timed promotions,» Target CEO Brian Cornell told reporters at a briefing in New York on Tuesday.

Novogratz, who worked at Goldman Sachs during the 1990s, told reporters at The New Yorker that the firm «hired Goldman's best guy in blockchain,» in an April issue.

U.S. companies thrive at this kind of brand storytelling, probably because they are brash and not afraid to tell the world that they are the best.

But I can tell you that Canadian Tire will look at every way to compete and beat our competitors to make the customer experience better, and if that means delivering to homes, we will be looking at delivering to homes.

Well, what if at the next table there was a man, eating his sushi, ice cream, and pickle dish with gusto... and he told you, ice cream dribbling down his chin, «It's really, really good!»