Sentences with phrase «who gets the conversation»

These book clubs have four jobs: the Kick - Starter (who gets the conversation going and records the conversation), the Devil's Advocate (who identifies conventional wisdom and disagrees with it), the Connector (who connects the text to the outside world), and the Literary Luminary (who locates and analyzes important quotes).

Not exact matches

To get to a single potential customer who might pay for the product, Litt had to have a lot of unsuccessful conversations.

I had an interesting conversation with a brilliant, hugely entrepreneurial guy who owns a technology company that is so hot right now that, with absolutely zero PR or fundraising activity, he is getting pursued by Venture Capitalists who want to invest.

I had an interesting conversation with a brilliant, hugely entrepreneurial guy who owns a technology company that is so hot right now that, with absolutely zero PR or fundraising activity, he is getting pursued by -LSB-...]

Leaders who master the practice of good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story by searching conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up with the right solution.

Not only did the post end up getting syndicated by multiple outlets, but it also sparked many subsequent online conversations about how to deal with difficult personalities in the workplace, particularly clients or customers who are vital to the stability of your business.

Unless you are one of those rare people who can meet a random stranger on the street, strike up a conversation and get their life story within 30 seconds, approaching someone you have never met before can be nerve - racking.

People often unconsciously mimic the mannerisms of partners in conversation, and research shows that it works: Waiters who mimic customers, for example, get bigger tips.

A search engine marketer who posts on Reddit using the name Friggersly has done the world a favor by posting the text of an online conversation between two spammers who are paid to sabotage the brand names of rival clients by getting them banned from Reddit.

I once got into a very polite conversation — tour guides don't argue with guests — with a nice but unyielding tourist who said, «You have to go into teaching because that's the only thing to do with a history major.»

Given the vast numbers of people who use Facebook daily, and the similarly large numbers of users who get a lot of their news there, it's incumbent on Zuckerberg to be part of the conversation around how to fix the «fake news» problem.

They get one place where they can monitor what's going on with them in the social conversation and a 24/7 phone line to a social media expert who can explain things to them with no additional cost.

Get a real impression of who they are as people by steering conversations toward unexpected topics.

Get into the conversation about the future of transportation — don't be like the record companies who got smacked in the face by new technology

Picture this: You're in the middle of a conversation with a close friend who gets interrupted by a phone call.

Those who keep to traditional morals need to get in on the conversation.

We get some sense of that variety in the Psalms, where we learn how capacious is the conversation to which we are invited by an infinite God, who is inexplicably interested in our small selves.

I did consider telling you who I got the email from, but since they haven't shown up here yet (as far as I can tell), I don't think it would be appropriate to drag him into the conversation unwillingly.

I've had conversation after conversation after conversation with women who struggled with their sexuality even after getting married — even though the marital bed was sanctioned and holy and they were with a good man, many women I know struggled with wanting sex, struggled with not feeling dirty for wanting it, struggled with being able to have a healthy sexuality within marriage.

I hope you get the chance to have some deep conversations with Christians who are interested in the same questions you seem to be — science, peace, and justice, humility and integrity.

An interesting conversation on a train the other day between a young university student who got on the train with some young Middle Eastern students.

I certainly have not done any sort of scientific research into this segment of the population, but I work in an environment where I get to interact with a lot of religious and non-religious people, and I have had countless conversations with people who probably count as one of the 35 million people who used to attend church and identify as Christian, but no longer do.

My enemies are people who would deny me my religious freedom, not Christians as a whole, and the best remedies tend to involve civil conversation, the courts, and the occasional school board meeting... When doing inter-faith work the goal is not to convert anyone or get them to agree with you, but to help them see you (and our community) as a positive.

«The time will come when you can get away from people who are seeking your autograph or wanting to hold conversations with you about your writings.

Tell anyone who's getting heated you feel the conversation isn't headed in a productive direction.

We think we know the way they're heading in the conversation, and we get impatient, like a traveler who wants to «cut the travel time.»

When consistently loving, humble people who clearly live for more than our culture offers are repeatedly, publicly bullied and harassed, when charities and schools are fined and marginalized, and when the good and the forgiving turn the other cheek and get slapped hard across that one too, this conversation will start to look different.

MidwestKen — I thought I had a conversation going with believerfred who was staying on topic more or less, but when it got close to actually drawing some conclusions he spun out and went all existential on me.

Who has energy to sit at the kid table and listen in on the grown - up conversations when we've got our own lives and communities happening right now?

The usual tactic of those who support power is to exit the conversation when it gets too hot, or delete comments, or close comments, or ask others to delete comments or posts.

And now at the end of the episode, she casually talks about getting chips with the Doctor who responds that he hasn't got any money, echoing Rose's conversation with the Ninth Doctor at the episode The End of the World.

Finding himself at Rome in his twenty - ninth year, he fell in with a French gentleman who tried to make a proselyte of him, but who succeeded no farther after two or three conversations than to get him to hang (half jocosely) a religious medal round his neck, and to accept and read a copy of a short prayer to the Virgin.

When the state pulls up a chair at the family table and invites itself into the conversation of who gets to have a child and who doesn't, the trajectory of an entire family line can be impacted.

(I know lots of texters who think they are listening while you're in a conversation with them, but they really are only getting the barest of details rather than engaging with you in conversation).

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I would love to feature younger thinkers, persons of color, and some female voices who often get overlooked in evangelical and denominational conversations.

I'm not saying it isn't possible, but it's always awkward for me to listen as people report these conversations... There have been beautiful and faithful people who have said God tells them what to get at the grocery store, whom to date, and what to wear.

I'm the sort of person who'd rather have a difficult conversation to get to the root of a problem than merely deal with the symptoms and let the underlying issue fester.

OR being i know enough to have a conversation and not just insult, thats just multi-tasking, i am better then those who jkust get upset and bash others... enjoy your point godless existence!

I ask why do people have to be so dam condemning of other referring to Pope Francis among other «who offer no harm to them but a common conversation in how to get along in this world.

The post has been a long time coming, but as I've been in conversation with my gay, lesbian, and bisexual friends (both those who support same - sex relationships and those who hold the more traditional view), as well as those Christian brothers and sisters with whom I respectfully disagree, I've come to believe it's important to not only be upfront about where I stand but also to explain how I got there.

Are some of you getting as uncomfortable as I am about the prospect of this turning into a «who's in» and «who's out» conversation?

My hope is to gather with different, compassionate people to stir conversation and awareness and raise funding for organizations who have their hands in there getting shit done.

But getting that characteristic cheese flavour was proving impossible, until I had a conversation with an Australian blogger who told me about nutritional yeast.

«I got a call one evening from this eager young man who said he was looking for some advice,» says Lipman, 60, as he recalls his first conversation with McVey.

But the conversation is what can win over someone who either hasn't been, wouldn't have come back, or plans to come back but never gets around to it.

Then, everyone wonders what a GM can do to fix the problems, who's getting traded, and whether LeBron will ultimately leave in free agency and render the conversation irrelevant.

2) No leaders across the pitch: Özil for all the money is no leader but a technically gifted player who can split a defense with an exquisite vision and pass, Sanchez for all the dribbles as the potential but is not there yet, Cazorla will never be in the conversation, Mertesacker is not fit to be one anymore, Coquelin for all the good he has done is too tender and inexperience, Giroud no WC player to assume the role... the only one who can seriously be a leader is Wilshere but unfortunately until he becomes consistent and set the tone with his talent and passion... 3) Mertesacker is a shell of himself and it would be an embarrassment to see him continue to play in his current form, get Gabriel out just for the sake of showing anybody in this team that there's no place for under performers: we paid good money to get him so play him!

The lone highlight was Bedard, who was in the midst of Cy Young conversations when Mazzone got a call from the front office worried about the number of innings Bedard was pitching and the wear on his 28 - year - old arm.

Also he seems to talk the way he likes and Kiyan seems so soft and respectful to that shitbag it frustrates me.I think gabe and om would shred him to pieces on his shit comments.I guess, it wasnt just 1 or 2 people who did nt like this podcast seeing the comment section today.I wish kiyan would engage in more fruitful conversations with other journalists so we can gain more knowledge about laliga and world football in general.Not this cule babling shit cuz that never gets old.