New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
If I was running a British School of classical music I'd employ Tai Chi teachers to help the conductors at the end of their lessons.
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
This world will slam doors in your face at every opportunity. Be willing to employ a foot when necessary.
Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels.
I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.
One of the strengths of the U.S. economy is its ability to most efficiently employ resources both domestically and from around the world and outsourcing is one such example of this.
As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have anything to hide behind when we're doing this.
I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.
When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.
One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.
I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.
We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.
I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
Companies are changing the way they do business, what goods and services they provide and they are constantly reevaluating the type of workforce they employ.
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
Unfortunately, some of the African leaders employ various nefarious means to remain in office far beyond what their constitutions permit.
No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.
Employers' national income is a particular disincentive to employ because it is an expense without benefit.
If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.
The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
To courtship and such fair ostents of love
As shall conveniently become you there.
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
In the B-52s, we employ a lot of people. It's a machine that keeps it all going, which is wonderful.
Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.
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