Sentences with phrase «work at hand»

This clear awareness gives us the opportunity to sort through the clutter and stay focused on the important work at hand of putting students first.

The self - command might be needed at a time when we feel stuck, when we need to keep plugging away and do whatever work at hand is necessary.

If it says Business class, it really means a place for business people to have some quite time and also focus on work at hand when they land at their destination.

Nurses and midwives have plenty of experience quickly and discretely cleaning up any accidents, so as not to distract you from the real work at hand.

This exhibition gathers Freilicher's paintings and drawings, as well as two videos by Rudy Burckhardt, and features four vitrines containing photographs, book covers, letters, and manuscripts — some poems with lines crossed out and handwritten additions in the margins — that point to the interrelated friendships between painter and poets, and to the development of work at hand.

Managers show disapproval at the sound of laughter, hearing it as an indication that serious work at hand is being neglected.

«So we put together a team of about 125 people to work at hand painting all the frames so they would look like van Gogh paintings that were moving and we could have some insight and feeling into how he saw the world while we were watching the story of his life.»

Once you're back in school, what will you do to enable students to talk about their storm experiences and then refocus them on the academic work at hand?

I feel like I would never buy Second hand software again bc I messed my computer up and would Uninstaller at all and then wouldn't work at all

The series reserves its most blistering humor for the universal narcissism on display, always distracting from the real work at hand.

We will engage in exercises of observation, description, and analysis of works at hand and we will look at works in progress to consider how and why decisions are made along the way.

I have tried to focus on the important work at hand and serve this President and this country to the best of my abilities.

In our view, these issues are distractions from the serious work at hand: implementing solid standards that, by our lights, are better than those they replaced in three - fourths of the states, and more - or-less on par with the rest.

Look for ways to connect that have nothing to do with the work at hand.

Foosball, a Ping - Pong table and popcorn machines serve to distract employees from the work at hand.

Put them on a list and promise yourself you'll get back to them after you finish your work at hand.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.

A good quote on scaling back is by Alexander Graham Bell: «Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand, the sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.»

You still need to understand and provide direction on exactly what kinds of tasks you need done, and you need to ensure that you hire the right fit for the work at hand.

This is usual sparked by a simple business disagreement — two people with opposing views on how to proceed with the work at hand.

Alexander Graham Bell said to «Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.

The digital marketing industry is shaped by great minds that, while keeping one eye on the work at hand, are focusing the other on the future.

It is to the establishment of faith in the reality of infinite goodness made manifest in the conditions of finite existence that the work at hand is directed.

Long lists of human rights, while they may sometimes be well intended, only obfuscate the question and distract us from the work at hand.

This not only keeps him clean, it adds to his sense of ceremony about the work at hand.

It was just easier to soothe and then go back to the work at hand.

At home I could control the environment — low, soft lighting; a limited number of people present and people that I trusted intimately; the opportunity to drink and eat if I needed sustenance for the work at hand; labor strategies that supported a natural birth like movement, water and meditation.

Which freaked me out a little bit I have to say as I wondered just how dangerous a situation we were in — but I rode with it and remained focused on the work at hand.

Foot Pedal: When you're tattooing, your hands should be free so they can focus only on the work at hand.

You will note that organising your messy physical workplace will often also clear your mind and give you new energy to tackle the work at hand.

But though nostalgia and sentiment ruled those few hours, many are eager to get back to the work at hand.

«Peter is a guy with a good sense of what science is worth doing, so I think he'll be working at the hands - on level to direct things,» says William Brinkman, a theorist who worked at Bell Labs for many years and served as director of the Office of Science from 2009 to 2013.

Malia Mason, now a postdoctoral researcher of neurocognition at Harvard Medical School, trained subjects in verbal and spatial memory tasks that after four days of continual repetition became quite banal — perfect conditions for thinking about something unassociated with the work at hand.

«When I meet a client for the first time, I wear a long - sleeve shirt and pants because I don't want to distract them from the work at hand,» he says.

It is almost as if director Nicholas Winding Refn has taken all the good regard generated from his last film, Drive, and experimented to see just how far he could use it to push the audience before they stopped to question the actual worth of the work at hand.

We want to give Bachmann the benefit of the doubt here, but there is still the nagging suspicion that perhaps his idea of comprehensive inquiry is just as naïve as Sullivan's view of the goal of the work at hand.

As Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky) manages Meyer's flagging re-election campaign, Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty (Kevin Dunn) wrangles the West Wing's merry band of idiots, and personal aide Gary Walsh (Tony Hale) begins to feel the sting of the president's distance, the series reserves its most blistering humor for the universal narcissism on display, always distracting from the real work at hand.

We meet just after lunch, can usually suspend the angst of upcoming classes, and most often have all the energy it takes to do the work at hand.

Instead, ask questions that make the group / pair focus on the work at hand.

I promise to do my best to keep the focus of the group, of which I am a member, on the work at hand and not to participate in any side discussions that are irrelevant to the purposes of the group.

I promise to do my best to keep the focus of the Enterprise Team, of which I am a member, on the work at hand and not to participate in any side discussions that are irrelevant to the purposes of the Enterprise Team.

My earnest hope is that the politicians — from Arne Duncan to Bobby Jindal and everyone in between — stop misbehaving and give educators the room to focus on the real work at hand: selecting good curricular materials, improving teaching and learning, and getting ready for the much more rigorous tests that will be given nine months from now.

Think about what furniture makes you feel comfortable and excited to do the work at hand.

Standing up — that little bit of physical activity — can be enough to increase student engagement and get their focus back on the work at hand

Whether it be watching a movie, exercising, or cooking, «go out and do something other than thinking about the work at hand.»

Yes, each path has its pros and cons, depending on the purpose of the work at hand.

At what point do tools for a burgeoning author community become less supportive of the work at hand and more intrusive when time is so limited?

They're confused, for good reason, and platform building grows into a raging distraction from the work at hand — the writing.

As the rest of the nation pauses to remember the tragedy of September 11, 2001, Dr. Wesley Bissett, assistant professor of large animal clinical sciences at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and director of the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team (VET), and his team also took time this morning to remember the heroes from that day before returning to the work at hand - caring for the animal victims of the Bastrop wildfire.