Sentences with phrase «try having a conversation with»

You can also try having conversations with pet store owners to see if they would be willing to stop selling puppies and convert to a humane business model.

Well, try having a conversation with anyone with absolutely any taste or insight into the pulse of «what's cool» around the world, and I guarantee you will hear the line, «Lisbon is the place to live now,» or «Lisbon is the new Berlin.»

«Try having these conversations with your children early and often.

Not exact matches

After that, my date prep sheet lands in my inbox, which has the results of a quick Internet / Facebook search of Lily's imprint, info on tonight's venue (a divey - but - not - too - divey bar that's just far enough away from my apartment that it doesn't look like I'm trying to get her to come home with me), and finally some conversation fodder and jokes.

So have a little conversation with your fear when it starts to get riled up when you're trying to do something creative.

By having an in - depth conversation with prospects about what they're trying to achieve and really listening to their goals, you can set value - based prices that are higher for you and also deliver more for the client, ideally, offering clients a menu of options to help them reach their objectives.

I was able to talk and listen with no distractions — no habitual checking of my texts, or trying to have a conversation while scrolling through every single social media platform.

Try something like «What feedback do you have for me on how to have tough conversations with you?

Ask your reps to have conversations with employees in customer service, sales or human resources of the company their trying to sell to.

Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.

I am not as hyper - focused, but try to have a meaningful conversation with only about five people at every event I attend or for each day of a conference.

China is slowly and fitfully lowering its financial barriers with the rest of the world, as Beijing tries to balance its desire for stability with its ambitions to have a much greater say in the global conversation about money.

That said, to me there are three key principles we always try to uphold: 1) You need to be ready with your «what if» situations before you launch a campaign; 2) monitor like crazy both the mainstream and fringe conversations to see if anything is bubbling; 3) act fast and course correct if you have to.

According to Harvard Business Review, companies that try to contact potential customers within 1 hour of receiving an inquiry are nearly 7 times more likely to have a meaningful conversation with a key decision maker.

«Maybe he's sitting there having a conversation with somebody and then he consults a document that came from Waymo, not using the company laptop, and says «Why don't we try it this way?»

I've had several conversations with Fishman over the last few weeks, trying to find a concise way to explain how his approach differs from competitors.

When I have conversations with my kids (or anyone) about such things as sex, abuse, basic decisions... I try to approach it from a «pro-con» point of view.

Now, in the name of trying to have an intelligent, open, and honest conversation, please don't respond back with the standard, «well, god works in mysterious way», or needing to «have faith».

«You try to have a rational conversation with him in which you carefully explain, point by point, how the Bible reveals that hom.ose.xuality is abhorrent and dangerous, and his eyes just glaze over,» said neighbor Alex Richardson, who told reporters he has never met anyone in his life so resistant to facts that contradicted his preconceived ideas.

«They kept seeing me, but I kept trying to dodge them because I had cars pulling up trying to get me... I've been shot at, stabbed, bricked, bottled, run over... I couldn't stay in one place and have a conversation with somebody.»

While I have tried to describe rather carefully the pastoral role of a clergyman working in a mental health center as contrasted to that of a parish pastor, I think it is important that some aspects of his pastoral role be maintained diligently — his openness to all levels of pastoral conversation, his availability at all times, his understanding of and empathy with the deep yearnings of people for a sense of purpose and meaning in life, forgiveness, moral clarity, the sense of the holy, and the importance of confidentiality and continuity in relationships.

Same ole b.s. Always trying to have a one way conversation with folks.

If they're interested in learning something they will check out said resources but usually these types of «Christians» I generally don't even bother trying to have a conversation with.

It's when you start trying to have conversations with adults and sharing these imaginations as fact that you open yourself and your theory to ridicule.

Then, instead of lecturing friends on your own hot take — or shouting into an echo chamber of your own making — engage in real, face - to - face conversation with people who see the world differently than you do to challenge your biases instead of just trying to have them affirmed.

I may try to strike up a conversation with somebody, and have them ignore me or shoot me down.

Instead of receiving self - improvement nudges or engaging in conversation with strangers, I watched the founders fret (a lot) over technical glitches with the web streaming, talk about how hard they had worked to pull the service off, and try to sell me Sunday Assembly swag.

With these five words, Donald Trump and many of his supporters have tried to brush away the presidential candidate's sexually predatory comments recorded in a 2005 conversation between the GOP presidential candidate and NBC host Billy Bush.

I have tried to start a conversation with others, and they usually look at me like I'm some sort of freak.

Yet how many times did Christ lovingly seek out those in need of God's Love in areas that the Sadducees and Pharisees wouldn't dare to venture into, just to have a conversation with them, eat with them, and try to show them God's Love?

That is a summary of many similar conversations I've heard between Christians, each trying to outdo the other with what they're buying with their money.

I accept people with different opinons and sometime try to have open conversation with them.

After I stopped attending church, and started trying to follow Jesus into the world, the number of conversations I had with people who don't go to church became a nearly daily occurrence.

And I view them with pity, I have stopped trying to hold coherent philosophical conversations with them (in person) for a long time, and avoid them at all costs, because what disease they have is surely contagious, especially at a young age.

You've started a conversation between people with illnesses trying to cure themselves with food.

But I try to write, like I'm having a conversation with someone about the subject, so it's more down to earth.

Whenever I have conversations with people about restaurants they love or want to try in San Francisco, State Bird Provisions always seems to come up.

And no, Michael Bennett is not a «great human being», but he is trying to do a good thing by forcing people to have this conversation with his provocative book title choice.

In fact I'm not going to bother with this conversation any more; I have better things to do with my time than try to combat polarised opinion and ignorance with reason.

To put Gnabry in the conversation is frankly stupid, he's made less than 10 starts for the first team and has been out a year with an injury — he's down as an option for wide right when we're trying to win the premier league....

The Portuguese wide - man added that Jose Mourinho may have been trying to distract him before the game after striking up a conversation with him in the tunnel, though he holds nothing against his fellow countryman, whom he called a gentleman.

«It is very difficult for me with the eight - hour time difference, but even with the conversations I am having with the chief scout it is trying to find the right times.

And when many of us Good men out there will try to start a conversation with a woman that will Attract us which she will Curse at us since i had this happened to me already and a friend that i know had it happened to him a couple of months after me.

An interrupting child is certainly an annoyance, whether you are having a conversation with another person, trying to complete a simple task or yes, talking on the phone.

I have been wanting to try Facebook Live for a while and after a conversation with my dear friend / colleague Jessica Ashley this week, I realized that talking about this issue live could be really helpful to other people.

And yet, I've started to push him anyway, trying something called the Three - Day Potty Training Method (to little success, surprise, surprise), reading him all sort of books about potties, having endless conversations about not peeing in his fancy big boy underwear, even bribing him with gummy bears when I'm really desperate.

This one is great while trying to relax outside or have a conversation with a friend at the park.

But yet another conversation with Reid's daycare teachers about how many accidents he's having, (as though I'd totally dropped the ball as his mother) made me consider that perhaps the real issue here is not that I'm failing my son by not potty training him, but that I'm failing him by not advocating for him, for not standing up for the fact that he has every right to listen to his own body and to not feel pressured into trying to meet a milestone he's clearly not ready for.

Don't try to have a rational conversation about procrastination with your child when they are in the middle of getting something done at the last minute.

When the conversation went to bringing babies home from the hospital, or visits with extended family, or whatever topic moms were kicking around on the sidelines during T - ball games, I would share stories from our experience, trying for the common ground.