unites us as members and very often you will be completely unconscious that you're using it at other times it's a very expedient shorthand so you might swap acronyms around like nobody's business but it will mean absolutely everything uh to the people that you are talking to um and there are other groups
The same way all these things-- collaboration, engagement-- they're not just things that you make a beautiful classroom and then those things happen. It's expedient .
Because if it was deeply held and sincerely meant you have a hard time changing it. But if it was expedient you can work on it. And I said, look, in my experience-- he said, well, how can you not explain it.
Let's change disaster response. And we help expediently repair homes that need it, that aren't going to be catastrophic losses.
And the capture part of it resulted in secret prisons and Guantanamo and military commissions. And so it's more convenient and expedient , in the eyes of the administration, to just start killing the people that the US suspects are plotting acts of terror against the United States. Now, having been in Somalia and traveled in areas that are under the control of al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somalia and
to happen in 600 years using a medium that I would argue is the biggest thing to happen in you know 22 or 2400 years when you're doing it in that expedient way that you know is just going to kind of work because they're dumb um in the
Sometimes we share hotel rooms on business trips. We share hotel rooms because it's just so expedient . Like, you're in bed sheet masking, and she's in her bed sheet masking.
And I just watched to see what he would do. And he did what most of us would do-- the expedient thing. He picked it up and he put it on her hook for her.
they would follow in all of their decision-making in the company. And the first one was we're committed to doing what is right even when it does not seem to be profitable, expedient , or conventional. That's pretty unusual for a company, right? And for a manufacturing company, manufacture of hinges and clutches. And so they found
I found it difficult to write on the road. I was keen not to create something quickly for the sake-- for something expedient . And there is, there's great opportunities to it when you get in with this writer or this pop writer-- record a song with this person.
focus on health it was a revolving door you'd have people come in you'd um treat them they'd go out and they'd be back difficult journey and then to try to advocate for her um to get expedient
Because trying to make a complete change in how you deal with food, see food, consume food is daunting. Look, let's just go and get the expedient thing.
It's weighing costs and benefits in the short term versus costs and benefits in the long term. And those usually correlate with what's good for me in an expedient fashion right now versus what's good for me to do even if it costs me in the moment to built a reputation and to build social bonds in the long term.
Asthma or people who smoke definitely need to meditate. So each person is different, because the fact that-- so Full Lotus is like an expedient , like a skill.
And so there's this quote from this Party Journal in 2012, the "Study Times," where they state, Sina Weibo-- "It's like a double-edged sword; it not only allows us to respond to crises will provide a tool that is more scientific and more expedient , also has limitations or negative effects that are very prominent." So the government is aware that they need to control Weibo if they want to make sure
And what I was concerned about was the corrosive effect that might have, as expedient as it might be, on representative government. Because I'm concerned about how it might focus and
Dan: And related to that, do you ever find that it would've been more expedient had you not killed a character off later on?
I was more upset because this one, unflinching, myopic definition of success, that the fastest and most expedient path to the corner office
And, think about it, if someone has taken a position you dislike, I mean not judging him morally, but in terms of your own self interest, wouldn't it be better if it was an expedient one rather than one more deeply held? Because if it was deeply held and sincerely meant you have a hard time changing it.
I just, for me, I shop on Net-a-Porter because it's very expedient .
to -- you could easily move things out if they fail and it turns out to be more efficient and, and expedient and in the long run there. So it's interesting that both the under the
Now when people think that way, if you think that way, you're probably gonna be, "What am I getting from my job?" It's very expedient . It's like okay, "I wanna make money, I wanna