Sentences with phrase «who thought of this idea»

If we can make it easier for women, we just want to help them,» said Carrie Meghie, general manager of the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago, who thought of the idea after pumping milk for her son.

But, underneath it all, there was some studio executive who thought of an idea of wedding ringing and then put a bunch of money into it and controlled the whole thing.

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In this year's letter published Wednesday, Bezos again stressed the idea of long - term thinking, using an anecdote about a friend who visited a handstand coach who told her it would take six months to master the skill:

«Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?»

There are hundreds of people who may have had a similar idea as the one you are currently thinking about, but failed to execute.

However, the best ideas are the ones that arise in response to a real situation, problem, or challenge, and for that you need employees who are constantly thinking of new ways to improve the company.

«I was just lying on the bed thinking and came up with all this bizarre imagery... I think also the idea that because I was in a foreign city by myself and I felt very dissociated from humanity in general, it was very easy to project myself into these two characters from the future who were out of sync, out of time, out of place.»

We bring the top thought leaders in American startups together to evaluate the ideas of entrepreneurs who are pitching their businesses.

This is the same philosophy held by the late tech innovator Steve Jobs, who said thinking that a great idea is 90 % of the work is completely wrong.

Overall, I think my age brings more to the table than not, and the idea that someone who isn't affiliated with a political party, didn't have the blessing of the establishment, and who doesn't have deep pockets was able to get elected into a substantial government office is pretty exciting.

«You need to be careful of giving air to certain people and certain ideas, and I think the media can create a bigger story and bigger attention for something who doesn't need that.»

There's a long - standing myth about intellectual property — the idea that a creative idea is proprietary to the person who thought of it.

Glickman: A common pivot we see is around health care: Students want to do something for patients, and as they develop their idea, they realize that it's the insurance companies that pay for this service, so they need to pivot one part of the business by thinking about the needs of who's paying.

And I'd like to think we all agree with Kevin Johnson, that these incidents are reprehensible — but I can also very much appreciate why even people who like Starbucks a lot can find the idea of a boycott very tempting.

It's what made Rowling's validation of the casting choice such a powerful one, and one that should inspire other talent wranglers to revisit their ideas of who they think can play certain roles.

For someone who speaks with college students a lot and also speaks to young entrepreneurs, it just further drove home that right now is a great time to think of ideas.

Obviously this is polling the converted, so there's no shock that most of those who already hire online think hiring online is a good idea.

David, who is extremely bright, would mention the idea of expansion to me from time to time, but I was so focused on coaching the Dolphins that I didn't think about it.

He was part of a New York City dinner circuit that includes people who believe the US should go back to the gold standard, rich people who don't think they should have to give back to society in the form of taxes, and anyone interested in either of those ideas who wanted to write a book about them.

It's also end of days for startups whose big idea is to raise a mountain of money now and figure out a business plan later, and for investors who think clever deal terms or the wisdom of crowds is a substitute for diligence and judgment.

Hettinger, who now lives in Florida, told Time that she first thought of the idea while witnessing kids throwing rocks at police officers in Israel, and started thinking about how to provide a more peaceful outlet for them.

«I thought it was good idea, but when I spoke with a lot of prospective LPs, nobody believed me,» he recalled, using finance jargon for «limited partner,» the investors who put money in venture capital funds.

«I have no idea, and I think people who think they do are wrong,» responded Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures.

This morning, we'll tackle that issue head on — in what I'm expecting will be a fun, raucous conversation with the always - engaged Chip Bergh, the charismatic CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.; Dr. Nicholas Gettas, chief medical officer of Cigna — who has some very cool and thought - provoking ideas on this subject; Amy McDonough, VP and General Manager of Fitbit Group Health and Rick Valencia, president of Qualcomm Life — both of whom have great insights into the technologies that may shift the wellness paradigm; and a full roster of Brainstorm Health delegates to join the discussion.

When most people think about creativity, they imagine it involves being a graphic designer or being the person who comes up with all of the most outrageous ideas.

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The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a large share of the tax is paid by workers in the form of lower wages.

But there are also plenty of people who think these tariffs might be a very bad idea.

That corporation, thought, arguably spearheaded the idea of trading ownership in a company — even with people who otherwise wouldn't have any interest in the voyage itself.

I think sometimes when I watch him operate, I think he might be one of the first people who really understood the genius of the wisdom - of - crowds idea, that he — so you know, ask a bunch of people what they think about something, and then why.

And I particularly play in the currency space and one of the thing that's attractive there is the idea that in eras where you have reckless central banking there's huge distinction between reckless central bankers and those who are engaged in reckless central banking with abadon and as a result I think that there becomes some real value disparities from a currency standpoint as well.

I think it's a very careless time for equity and bond investors from a longer term perspective whereas those of us who are Austrian have a bend for the idea of real money, sound money, and one of the things that looks pretty attractive in a Ponzi finance global macroeconomic backdrop would be precious metals I would say.

Think of him as a concierge who helps me find ideas and reach financial goals.

I like the idea of reaching out to atheists who are in a closet, but don't like this approach, and I think we have bigger fish to fry.

I think those who oppose the theory of evolution, oppose evolution in alll forms — they fear change and want to remain with ideas of the past.

Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?

No, I'm an old woman who had to move a family because of former christian «friends» who «loved me» so much that when I told them I no longer believed thought it was a fun idea to take away my job, vandalize my vehicles, and harass me until I had to move to a new town..

No matter what the story, there is always some conceited idiot who thinks he has a better idea of what makes for a good story.

It seems that nowadays they never knew the teacher who thought the idea of education was to crush the spiritedness of each student through personal humiliation, and if necessary through bodily cruelty.

You have no idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.

For crying out loud — why would ANYONE bother following the ideas of bronze - age people who all thought multiple gods created a small, flat Earth sitting at the center of a tiny universe rotating around it... daily.

It's the 0.001 % of them who hold rallies, blow themselves up, and go on television / radio (in the case of Fox News, start their own network) who HATE the fact that there are those of us out there who do not accept the idea of God or Jesus or Allah and think it is unacceptable.

• The hysterical Frank Rich, whose column in the Times almost makes one miss the relative sobriety of Anna Quindlen, has been sounding the tocsin against those Christian fanatics who think same - sex «marriage» a bad idea.

Perhaps god doesn't like a bunch of mindless sheeple, and lets in only people who think for themselves and live honest and compassionate lives because they think it's a good idea, not because they fear eternal punishment.

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

Some who speak from a Christian perspective still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti - individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits are closer to the mandate of the Gospel than are democratic capitalist institutions.

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

I think its a fantastic idea to «create your own religion,» but I know of no intelligent person who would say that «man exists by accident,» so I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.

As Independent editor Simon Kelner pointed out: «Whatever Brand may be, he's not trivial... [he] definitely articulates a strain of thinking among a growing number of young people who feel disenfranchised, disenchanted, disengaged and, most important, disinterested in the idea that politics can change the world.»