Sentences with phrase «wasn't in the room»

Do you find it difficult to concentrate in a room filled with noise?

«I'm about to go put my stuff in my room and my mother stops me and says, «So, before you go upstairs. . .

He walks in a room and I go «Ah!»»

«When that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men are fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say «Me Too» again.»

(See How to Deal with Time Wasters) Such sessions rarely accomplish anything except maybe some pseudo-bonding; they don't have a logical and clearly - understood endpoint so they seem both pointless and interminable; and, most often, they sorta drool to a conclusion without agreed - upon action items and / or documented next steps for at least half the people in the room.

«You've got 12 people in a room and everyone has to say what they do» to improve efficiency, Handmaker says.

According to Bennett, «hepeating» can be combated by creating greater gender diversity in a room and ensuring that women are heard the first time they speak.

He thinks it unlikely the influence and power Thiel has accrued over time, becoming «one of those 800 pound gorillas in the room,» will be damaged in a lasting way by the investor's relationship with Trump.

While his son was in the hospital, De Brouwer began writing down the names of all the medical equipment in the room.

Some people actually try to do deliberative things whilst sleeping, like turning on the lights in a room.

I went in feeling intimidated to be in a room with these men.

Now, before I explain what to do for the seven minutes, let's address the elephant in the room.

A Wall Street Journal report later quoted an anonymous source claiming that independent directors on RIM's board have long deferred to Balsillie, «the most forceful presence in the room by far.»

However, the self - styled smartest guys in the room still only managed a return on equity of 8.7 percent, well below its estimated cost of capital at around 10 %.

Entrepreneur: Michelle Kerr Headquarters: Columbus, Ohio Make sure you're not the smartest one in the room.

Wolf's performance was met with waves of laughter in the room, but subsequent responses have been sharply divided.

An Oval Office bill signing attended by lawmakers and financial services interest groups devolved into a venting session about Richard Cordray, the embattled director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to six people in the room and two people briefed on the conversation.

Get 2,000 hard charging, go - getting, Type A personality entrepreneurs in a room and many of them will say they'd like to lose weight fast.

I've been the first woman to be in the room, the first Latina to be at that senior level at Comcast.

And even worse is when the loud mouth isn't the smartest guy in the room.

And one of the things I'm excited about — hopefully you'll have some more time now that you've turned over the CEO role — that people like you and me can sit in a room and say let's forget about what we believe and don't believe.

In a room normally used for dissecting cadavers, McConnell convenes a meeting highlighting what he says is the Obama administration's «war on coal.»

Nearly everyone in the room nodded.

You already have the attention of everyone in the room.

No: There was not a dry eye in the room -; inmate, business executive or family member.

During the meeting with executives Thursday, Cohn argued against taking action, according to a person in the room.

In 90 minutes the floors, walls and all of the equipment in the room are as clean as a surgeon's scalpel.

It provides a constant reminder the most important person, the customer, is not in the room.

Get 2,000 people in a room and at least half will say they'd like to lose a little weight.

Halfway through the event, Trump told the attendees he would impose tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports, the person in the room said.

Five minutes spent fully engaging with one person as if he or she is the only thing in the room at the moment is worth 10 times more than 15 minutes half - heartedly tittering on about the dullest subjects.

Lately, I've found that even the mission - critical business ideas that make it through my first set of filters have to address another elephant in the room: the question of whether this startup is building something that's going to become a free - standing and independent business or whether it's developing a great feature that is going to be swallowed up, ripped off, or rolled over by one of the big guys in their space in the near future.

And, while she touted the bravery of many women, she made sure not to exclude the men in the room:

With Green Throttle, Huang's newest start - up will let users connect their iPhone or Android to any screen in the room.

«I used to kid around that I went from being a really smart person to the least smart person in the room,» Rahn said.

Find out who will be in the room.

Trudeau is six months into his bid for the party leadership, and it shows as he briskly shakes every available hand in the room before alighting on his throne to expound on the Conservative government's fickle relationship with China.

Of course, there are some entrepreneurs that will want the most seasoned person in the room, but I've found that there's a segment of founders who really valued that commitment and work ethic.

I don't want to be the leader in the room who really doesn't know what she's talking about.

In the room were some 1,500 energy sector executives, most of them in a tetchy mood, given that oil was south of US$ 50 a barrel and over 35,000 Albertans had lost oilpatch jobs up to that point in 2015.

«A lot of owners are the smartest person in the room,» says Jacoline Loewen, an investment advisor at UBS Canada.

The faster connections allowed for the installation of video communication stations in the rooms.

And, hotels told McCartney that many families were looking for more toiletries in the room to allow everyone to properly wash their hair.

In the discussion portion, a group of candidates — the number can vary — for a particular role are gathered in a room and presented with a question that can lean toward the philosophical («Should prisons be privatized?»)

By Saturday afternoon, I was on page 40 and my fourth beer, and I had a eureka moment: If I put 10 lawyers or contract experts in a room with highlighters and said, «You've got a quick look and 10 minutes,» there are common things they would all identify.

(The other elephant in the room: It's impossible to look cool wearing these.

Meanwhile, the two big giants in the room — Apple and Google — are offering music merely as a way to keep customers within their mobile ecosystems.

«Back then, professors wouldn't even have projectors in the rooms,» Baker recalls of his experiences talking to teachers about education software.

We entrepreneurs tend to think we're the smartest guys in the room.

«Between everyone in the room, there was no shortage of analytical thinking and no shortage of conflicting advice,» Marcello says of his quickly convened war room.