Artists and writers have been known to call this experience "flow, " that moment when you become lost in the process of creating something, because you love the work and the goal means something to you.
Just as diminishing marginal utility means more of something adds less and less to total utility (bank reserves), it also means that less of something (bologna) will raise its utility at the margin.
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So what they're measuring is, is how effective are these ads over a one-week period, which means something to the advertising agency, and certainly you want to be effective rather than ineffective, but it means very little to how the movie will eventually do or even profitability.
"The only thing that means something is what you do in that ring, " he said.
To sabotage something means to purposely weaken or destroy it through subversion, obstruction and disruption.
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"Convenience is still very important, but convenience means something different than it used to, " he says.
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It drives me absolutely crazy, it has to come from a place that means something.
Where to us each word means something, to the Hosts, each is an opening.
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What she means, however, is perfectly sensible (another word which means something quite different in French).
While baccalaureates have sprung up in Wales and Scotland too, in England the word means something different.
Another advantage of having products with Google's software on them: "The brand name means something, " Baxter said.
Low price obviously, indeed as we know it does, means something a little different in the Apple world.
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We realized from the start that high-end audio in our time means something different than in the past.
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"Culturally, food means something very different to us than it does to other ethnic cultural groups, " said Smikle.
What means something to me is telling a story in a way that I think is the right way to do it.
With two rounds of matches to go, every game still means something.
Not that you were funny or sad, but that the brand means something more to them now than before you ran the ad.
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When sales volume slumps, as it has for nearly a year, it means something fundamental is keeping potential buyers and sellers from making deals.
Everyone agrees that the grass-roots insurrection against the Republican Party's official candidate means something significant, but exactly what it means depends on who's asked.
Either we have to create a new word that means something worse than evil, or we have to stop using it for anything else.
And that means something is subsidizing most everything you enjoy online.
Marketers and gymnasts also emphasize the need for balance, but in their case this word means something different than it does for the high-wire economists.
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And it means something that's slightly different, but not oddly different.
Better products work great, but a brand means something to people.
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The people are friendly and a handshake actually means something.
That iconic status means something to a guy like Andreessen.
Sure, you get a rear-wheel-drive setup with those German cars, and that means something far closer to true sports car handling, at least as traditionalists would have it.
But in Boulder County, Colorado, housing crisis means something else.
If the Shariah in SCF actually means something, the lawyer representing a U.S. financial institution desiring to enter this new arena needs to find out what that something is.
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