For
years people thought that they were mad for working in this medium; it is only in the last 3 or 4 years that the public is more attuned to environmental works.
Through
the years people thought so, too, which is why they also named it «The Grains of the Prophet», «Drink of the Prophet», «Snow Lotus», and «Balm of Gilead».
For many
years people thought polyunsaturated was the way to go, like in margarines.
«For
years people thought you could only make amorphous metals via rapid cooling,» says Johnson.
For the last hundred
years people thought the war was simply between employers and employees over workplace conditions, wage levels and benefits.
You never know when he is coming back like last
year people thought he was coming back.
The second
year people thought it was novel, and now people say to me «It's inevitable.»
Not exact matches
People think, you have 2 million followers, you must be making $ 2 million every
year, and that's certainly not the case.
Because some of these
people may come to me a
year later and send me a tweet and say «Hey, I
think your advice helped, and here's how the company's doing,» and I may actually subsequently invest in that company.
But most proponents
think everything will be worked out in due time, and that in the next few
years, blockchain and its smart contracts would improve our lives, even if it operates quietly in the background, invisible to most
people.
He had
thought that launching in the holiday shopping spree might be a boon for his campaign, but «the obvious hindsight observation is that one of the coldest months of the
year is not the time to trying to get
people excited about coolers,» said Grepper.
He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same
people he'd last encountered six
years ago, most of whom were still
thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»
«Yesterday, seeing Sonny Boy for the first time in 20
years, it was incredibly overwhelming, and I went to bed last night, just
thinking to myself, that often we tell the story that in the last 30
years (that) extreme poverty has halved, but in some ways, I
think that masks the present reality of suffering for so many
people living in extreme poverty.
Forty
years later, when I had a chance to buy delinquent loans for pennies on the dollar, I
thought, What if I treat the
people who owe this money with dignity and respect?
In fact, the comments section of the above mentioned article has many stories of
people who did sell in past
years because they
thought house prices were too high, only to subsequently watch from the sidelines as prices continued to march upward.
When you
think about conventional management
thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many
years at Chevron: Getting results through the
people and relationship side of the business.
«Having taught at Stanford now for 30
years... one of the things I
think that we're failing even in our elite education — and we're failing at Stanford although we're trying — is teaching
people to fight constructively,» Sutton said.
«What we've had to do at Harry's is actually
think out multiple
years ahead and say, how big do we want to be, in 2018 and 2019 and 2020 and start buying equipment today so that it gets put in place and we can train
people on it and we can have them up and running by the time we're that size.»
«I
thought, I'm going to commit two to three
years of my life to work for these
people to learn everything that I possibly can.»
When pocket squares burst back onto the menswear scene in recent
years, more than a few
people thought they were just another short - lived style fad, but now that the dust has settled, it's obvious that
Particularly as the new
year looms,
people are
thinking about what they'd like to do differently as the calendar
year changes over.
And that sounds really weird to
people but if you
think about it, a really happy 80 -
year - old couple that's been together for 60
years, the reason that they've been together for 60
years, it isn't because they took all these private jets and they had these crazy vacations and «Oh my God, look at their pictures.»
Rogers, who has lived in Singapore for nine
years, said, «I don't
think many
people, if any in Washington, understand what's happening [in Asia].
He claims to be «the first individual in the whole entire world» to own a personal computer: «I've been saying that for five or 10
years and my kids keep saying, «Don't say that —
people will
think you're crazy.»»)
I
think this is the
year people implement a lot of the things they've been talking about.
However, if you sit
people down once a
year, take out a well -
thought - out PowerPoint that you've been practicing for two weeks, and passionately lay out your goals and objectives for the next
year, you have a good chance of getting
people's attention.
As a
person who has dedicated over 20
years of my professional life in the pursuit of assisting clients in setting direction and driving change, I
think that I've seen just about all there is to see when it comes to business and cultural transformation.
«It's really frightening to me to
think of all the wasted brain power, talent and leadership these young
people represent around the world,» says Barbara Bush, the 31 -
year - old daughter of George W. Bush and CEO of Global Health Corps, which pairs young fellows and leaders to different organizations.
So if you're a manager, you have 10 direct reports; those
people, they show up for work today just because they had the job yesterday, but you as their manager need to
think, «Is that the right
person for the next two
years?»
Think about the five
people who really helped you out this
year, in a work - related or personal scenario; and make it a resolution to build your friendships with them.
«I say it to
people, and they almost look at me sideways,» he says, «but I would
think 10
years from now I'll be walking down Bay Street or Fifth Avenue in New York and in a three block period there'll be two
people stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, and they'll be doing one - minute meditation.»
Think of customers as friends you hope to influence by remembering the following wisdom from Dale Carnegie: «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can in two
years by trying to get other
people interested in you.»
Most
people seem to
think we're in a full recovery, gas prices are down, and more Americans travelled this Memorial Day weekend than have travelled in the past few
years.
Many
people organize their closets as part of spring cleaning every
year, but few
think of the tax - saving opportunities.
There's nothing wrong with eliminating information from your résumé that you don't
think will help strengthen your candidacy (whether it's an unrelated master's degree or a job outside your field), but having a bachelor's and five
years of experience isn't the type of thing that is going to make
people think you're shockingly overqualified for and unhireable for a tutoring job.
«I
think for
people making $ 40,000 a
year, any increase in their take - home is significant for them and I don't want to diminish that at all,» Crowley said.
I
think a lot of young
people [get told] you have to do this for five
years and then you can move up.
When most
people think of Go Daddy, they're more likely to
think of its racy Super Bowl ads (which actually won't happen this
year) than its commitment to U.S. military veterans.
«We clearly see a fade amongst the 13 - to 18 -
year - olds in usage of Facebook, and I
think most
people would probably intuitively feel that that's happening,» Mark Mahaney, lead internet analyst at RBC, told CNBC's «Power Lunch» Monday.
Darling likes to put together a survey at Surveymonkey.com every two
years so these
people can give her honest
thoughts without fear of offending her.
If you
think you face challenges today landing great
people for your organization, just wait until next
year — especially if you haven't established a greater purpose for where you're going.
A number of
people who were listening to Buffett's answer
thought the 85 -
year - old investor fumbled the answer.
Ten to fifteen
years ago
people were creating logos for business cards - now we are
thinking about thumbnails social media, app tiles, and other forms.
When
people think about 3M, the 115 -
year - old maker of Scotch Tape, they might not associate the old - line consumer goods manufacturer with electric cars.
00:13 Michael Alter: As we're getting to the end of the
year and looking towards 2013,
people are always
thinking about «how do I set my sales quotas for the
year, how do I incent my sales team?»
«I
think you're going to start seeing
people say, «Wow, these valuations are really, really attractive, and over the next five to 10
years, I'm going to be happy that I have exposure there,»» she says.
So my first marketing job really was about seven
years ago, and I grew my marketing chops at my previous job under the tutelage of a
person I
think is a great CMO, Connie Weaver.
In the provided form, please post the names of
people you
think have done the coolest stuff in and for the UK's fintech community this
year.
Business Insider reported on a survey in which 69 % of
people 18 to 34
years old said they
thought they learned more from technology than from
people, compared with 50 % of
people older than 45 who said the same.
«If you
think back to
years ago before the digital age,
people had to walk into the hotel for their experience to start.