Sentences with phrase «who did things on»

Why not use an example of a client who did things on the cheap, wasted thousands of pounds before hiring you to do a proper job?

Automatic Do Not Disturb settings are very useful for those who do things on a regular schedule (you know, like sleep), because you don't have to think about it.

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«Life is all about overcoming obstacles,» Will says, «and quite often you as an individual who has to get over those obstacles... but the truth is, you don't do most things in life on your own.

Rather than dwell on the problems, however, the magazine launched a special «Economy of the Future» series that aims to spotlight case studies of people and companies who were doing things right, and how they could act as examples to others.

«As a matter of fact, for those of you who are still using email, one of the things that I've done in my business is I've said, «If you talk about somebody in the company on email to me, then copy them on it,»» she says.

Then he handed the same wristband to his research partner, who put it on and tried the same thing — but this time, the laptop didn't respond.

And the best thing you can do for the people who love and depend on you is to do your best to make sure you can always be here for them.

Then there's the 400,000 other things you need to know, so how on Earth is a physician who reads an average of five papers a month supposed to do this?

One of the easiest ways to increase your interaction on Twitter is to thank the people who do kind things for you.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

When I took on competitors» salespeople who'd told me tales about the great things they'd done in their previous jobs, I learned that I shouldn't have been so quick to believe them.

That doesn't mean there haven't been things on Facebook that we don't want to have happen on Facebook — and we're taking strong steps to correct that — but as an organizing tool for people who are trying to reach communities, it's huge.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

Then we go to our off - site commissary kitchen where we do all the prep work, which includes rolling the dough, making sauces, cutting the vegetables, and all of the things you really can't do in a 10 - by - 10 truck,» explains Baitinger, who still works a day job in advertising but handles the truck on nights and weekends.

On the other hand, those who used their own names demonstrated more confidence, telling themselves things like, «You can do it, John.»

Managers complain about employees who don't get to work on time, can't do simple math, can't run a register — or even worse, misfits who lick taco shells, bathe in the utility sink or do unspeakable things to the nachos.

«We wanted to have a restaurant that really focuses on things you'd never do at home,» says Bil, who also happens to be a former national oyster - shucking champion.

Recognizable by her signature vivid - pink locks, Fried (or Ladyada, as she is known on the internet) is one of the dominant forces behind the maker movement — a legion of do - it - yourself - minded folks who create cool things by tweaking everyday technology.

If you think your compensation committee needs greater independence and expertise, bring on a female compensation consultant with 20 years experience who has done 50 compensation plans, including ones in your industry, with no ties to management, and then watch how things change for the better.

«Then we apply a some fairly strict criteria of positive identification: How do we know who that is and what they're doing, and we have multiple intelligence requirements — it can't just be one thing; we have multiple indications that that is in fact what's going on from that place,» he said, adding:

One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

Though the survey found that social media does» t have much of an impact on loneliness — those who defined themselves as very heavy users of social media had similar loneliness scores as those who say they never used it — other things you do during the day have an impact.

«People don't talk about Florida and all the crazy stuff happening there, but they focus on Mexico when one or two things happen and it has nothing to do with tourism,» said Martha Mendez, who sells day trips for tourists to places such as the Maya ruins Chichén Itzá.

«They have all kinds of things that they're working on, and they don't want that information used unless they understand who's using it.»

Finally, freakishly, there is an American president who does not want to lead the world, and doesn't want to do anything in the world except get out of Afghanistan and Iraq on an acceptable basis, doesn't care a fig for the western alliance, and doesn't think American strength or leadership is a good thing.

«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

Barton remembers meeting one bright young thing on a recruiting visit to the University of Western Ontario who boasted he's been No. 1 at everything he'd done.

In Song's opinion, there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: people who build a startup because they're passionate about a specific business — a desire to create the world's largest cold - pressed juice empire, say, or a sudden insight that betting on video games is the future of fantasy sports — and people who are entrepreneurs because that's just the only thing they can imagine doing.

«There are a lot of things going on right now, but body cameras are a great tool to provide the vast majority of cops who risk their lives and do a great job with a way to help restore trust.»

In 1915, he wrote the following happy advice to his 11 - year - old son, Hans Albert, who was attempting to master the piano: «I am very pleased that you find joy with the piano... play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those.

«The thing I most respect about Brito is he does what he says he's going to do,» says Dave Peacock, who was president of AB at the time and stayed on for three years.

Sometimes this has me scratching my head, and other times I'm in awe of these remarkable young people who are perched on the brink of accomplishing things never done before.

But none of the broken things would be fixed by Donald Trump's proposed budget, which does away with federal subsidization of interest on student loans and eliminates the program that forgives loans for people who enter public service (including teachers)-- among other education - related cuts.

I started cleaning floors and toilets and doing those things that most people would never even dream of doing,» says Hightower, who appeared on CNBC's «Blue Collar Millionaires.»

EASTWOOD: So anyway, we did that and then I went to Tokyo and where they hadn't been too fond of Americans going there and filming, I sold the governor who was actually the mayor of Tokyo, I sold him on the idea that this would be a great thing for the Japanese people that didn't even know this battle even existed much less how tough it was.

Wenger, on the other hand, is purely an optimist who doesn't plan for anything going wrong and is confounded when things go against him.

Another interesting nugget: At the time, Facebook had a 1.9 million monthly userbase (out of which an impressive 1.2 million logged on every day, proving that even in its infancy, Facebook was potently addictive) that primarily used the network to do things like «find students who share similar interests or courses.»

And given the disparity in wealth between Walmart employees (many of whom live below the poverty line) and the Walton family (who control the company, and who are the richest family on earth), this might be a situation where giving beyond what you're legally required to give might be the right thing to do.

«To all of you that have something nasty to say about me or other women who are built like me, women whose names you know, women whose names you don't, women who've been picked on, women whose husbands put them down, women at work or girls in school, I have one thing to say to you: kiss my fat ass,» she said.

There will be some plumber in America who becomes famous by doing two minute videos broken up in 20 sections on how to fix things yourself.

«A lot of the things we do in the sprint are meant to help people who are introverted — people who aren't as comfortable or as capable of pitching their ideas — to be on a level playing field with the founder or with anyone on the team,» says Knapp.

«Probably for a lot of people who want to do cool things on Vine, it's discouraging.»

Despite protests from the people who work for them, many entrepreneurs simply insist on doing things their own way, thereby getting in their own way.

That's because those who make decisions on the front end (buying property, building bridges) do not bear all the costs when things go wrong on the back end,» he wrote in an email.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

On the one hand, it makes it easier for new users who don't have time to follow a lot of things or create custom magazines to get a curated feed of interesting content.

«I think as a company, if you can get those two things right — having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff — then you can do pretty well.»

«Perhaps it's because I live a very boring and uneventful life and doing anything is be better than the alternative, or perhaps it's because that during the time I was doing Random Acts of Pasta, the only thing on my mind was who I was going to take pasta to,» Tribe said.

«I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many,» Hawking, who long used a wheelchair, reportedly wrote on his website.

Believe me, I wanted to bail on the whole thing, but players who really improve don't blow up the strategy after a few bad shots.