Because asking someone for any advice they can give is like asking them for nothing at all.
The downside of asking someone who has left the job is that their info is less current.
Picking up the phone and asking someone to become a client or refer business to me was terrifying.
Think about having asking someone to come to your house and help you open a bottle of pills.
And it's an awful lot to glean from the simple act of asking someone to deliver an invocation.
Sadly, asking someone to name their favorite TV shows is no longer stimulating conversation for the first date.
Turner Stull quickly and literally gets in over his head - trapped on a roof, asking someone for help he's there to provide.
Start by asking someone close in your universe that has recently gotten a mortgage, see if they can recommend their lender.
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Colleen is then heard asking someone nearby to call a supervisor.
He advises always asking someone to proofread it first.
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So asking someone who has mastered a discipline to consciously focus on the individual steps actually distracts them from the engine of their mastery, and throws them off their game (pun intended).
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That means that asking someone to suggest how much he would charge for his product or work means you may have better chance of get a deal, as you see it, than suggesting the price.
Removing this potent source of data from someone attempting to thread their way through a crucial conversation is like asking someone to drive a windy country road at sixty miles an hour with their eyes closed.
Asking a Jets fan to pull for the Giants or Patriots is like asking someone afraid to fly to join you on a 15-hour flight to Dubai and making them wait five hours on the tarmac.
"The cultural norm is to sit, which is why sitting is the smoking of our generation: everyone does it, and it's so common, asking someone to be active definitely seems weird to everyone I ask, " she says.
Among the "dehumanising" examples of care being provided was a case where a male care home patient was told to go to the toilet in his incontinence pad despite asking someone to help him use a toilet.
If you are not able to do a comparison yourself, consider asking someone in your family or a friend to help you, or you can call Medicare at 800-633-4227 and they will do it for you over the phone.
If you are asking someone to the prom, but you're not totally sure she is going to say yes, is it OK to ask someone in school to secretly get a little information from her, so you don't embarrass yourself and get rejected?
Gone will be the days of asking someone for their blackberry pin (only for them to say what do you mean), navigating the web on a screen that you can barely see and taking photos with a state of the art camera phone (if it was 2009).
Stephanie asked her step-father to go to the apartment after receiving an alarming early morning e-mail from Madoff asking for someone to check on their son.
Now members of Congress are asking how someone the FBI questioned two years earlier because Russia was concerned about his shift toward Islamic extremism could have avoided closer scrutiny since then.
As the terrible news began to spread, my Facebook feed was filled with messages from people I know telling me they were all right, or asking if someone else had been heard from.
"Eddie Murphy knows he doesn't have to worry about someone asking for his autograph, " she says.
"It would be like someone asking you if you wanted to switch off your sight for 20 minutes, " he says.
"I got a knock on my door from someone asking if I wanted to come across to their room to have a drink, which I thought was a bit odd, " he said.
Even in asking for permission you influence whether someone is likely to criticize or praise you to others.
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And if you go on a tour that brings tourists in to indigenous tribes, don't walk into someone's home without asking permission.
Late last year a teenager posted a plea for help on Twitter saying there was someone in her house and asking people to call 911.
It turns out that someone at TSA must have been asking the same question because the rules are finally changing for some passengers.
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