I've seen management styles come and go or structures rise and fall development Cycles sputter and spurt by far the best Bell weather whether or not an initiative would last is whether the management and theleadership had passion for it the quote working with passion
I can tear through a contemporary novel of 200 to 300 pages in the time it takes to read 25 to 30 pages of Proust. Read in brief spurts , Proust's 3,000 pages-- well, the 700 I've read so far-- reveal themselves to be a series of hundreds and hundreds of linked discursive essays two to five pages long.
Even in the spring when the dogwood tree outside my window blossomed, I struggled to find beauty in the world, to motivate myself to get out of bed. Although there were spurts of happiness, my teenage years were haunted by the desire to call it quits. I struggled with my emotions, but more importantly, I struggled with why.
As you can see, there's a slow gradual rise, and then in the 1940s, there's a spurt , and then it drops off again, and then there's another huge spurt . And then if you take the Danish military recruits, just start at the end of the Second World War, again you see the
And I know that's true because I'm an expert. You know what an expert is, right? "X" is the unknown quantity and "spurt " is a drip under pressure. So an expert is an unknown drip under pressure. It's an old joke.
I will look her up. And we're going to go through another really big growth spurt , which is going to be exciting.
These are the classic four or five things that we all know we should do, and none of us do it. So what we typically do is we go through these spurts of, OK, OK, OK, I know what I'm going to do. All right. I'm motivated to do this today.
Have you felt that flow, and how do you keep yourself there? Yeah, I think sometimes it comes in spurts , especially in the marathon. I wasn't feeling any flow the first 10K to 10 miles at CIM.
somehow she'd heard of Cordelia and asked for this woman mesmerist to help her somehow Cordelia did not scream several times as the knife cutting into the thin body spurted blood plenty of it getting
New social institutions, new mixture of industry, finance, services, consumption. The classic one is in the 1840s where the railways arrived to take over from an initial spurt of development that was fueled by the rise of the factory system alongside canals.
this law can best be explained by telling you a true story. 1968 California school district, and teachers are told that certain third graders have scored very high on a late bloomer test, and to expect a learning spurt over the ensuing school year. Lo and behold, at the end of the school year, not only did these third graders improve their performance in the classroom, but their IQ scores went up-- quite dramatically, quite unexpectedly, their IQ scores went up.
most bullish aggressive models, we found that hurricanes don't strengthen linearly. Like they're not just steadily gaining steam. Most of their intensification comes in quick frenetic spurts . And so if we can learn to better forecast that or better understand the predictive mechanisms behind that, we'll be able to program models better, which
I mean, through the television show and this reporting, I mean, the thread that ties all this together is, yeah, I I mean, these things all tend to go in fits and spurts .
I mean is this something that just consumes you? But for me, it's very much-- I don't work in spurts of inspiration.
He'll take a deep breath and go, how is that even possible? When the irrigation system is broken, and water is spurting up, that's solving a problem.
were no ice caps at the poles, for instance. Then the Earth got even warmer as the Paleocene turned into the Eocene with this spurt of global warming. It got so hot that there were crocodiles lounging
Low-silica lava, also called mafic lava, creates super runny flows that race across the surface in rivers or spurt up as fountains.
One day, I literally reached into the thing like, growth spurt .
They had seven, eight, nine, 10, 11-year-olds, and they followed them on a six-monthly basis. As you can see, there's a slow gradual rise, and then in the 1940s, there's a spurt , and then it drops off again, and then there's another huge spurt .
Those in the know would say the media's recognition of Oakland's thriving cultural realm was long overdue, especially given the city's growth spurt in the art, music, fashion, and literary
Surprising? There was no test. It was a ruse. It was a ploy, it was an experiment now known as the Pygmalion Experiment between this very well-known social psychologist of the day, and this California school district. What happened? Teachers were told to expect a learning spurt , and so as a result gave these third graders -- who reportedly scored high on this late bloomer test -- they gave these third graders more time, more attention, more focus, and more
This is suburbs of Abuja, the capital. And this used to be a nomad path, as you still see some go through, but behind them there spurt up like mushrooms, housing developments
But sometimes subconsciously, on your way to work, you might deal with the short-form or spurts of like trauma.
But she said, look, let me go in for four-day spurts .