Sometimes she sat on her back porch in the evening and devoted a few moments of her pondering to imagining fates for Jason.
I then spent the better part of 10 minutes clicking through hundreds of channels and selecting which ones I have on my television, and devoted a few more minutes to selecting my favorite genres.
I've found the experience of being a Resolution Guide incredibly fulfilling, but getting to see the work on the ground and devoting a few days to working closely with Jess was truly an unparalleled experience.
Sit down with no distractions and devote a few hours (or days) to truly nailing down just what your passion is.
Gottesman devotes a few days a week to his own lab and research team; they study the role of protein pumps in cancer cells.
She now devotes a few minutes each day to trying to stop spammers.
Harford also devotes a few pages to one-upping Friedman.
Epstein: All organizations, large and small, should devote a few hours with their senior management team brainstorming about goals and activities and then developing a clear logic model that carefully defines their inputs (resources and constraints), processes (organizational activities), outputs (results), outcomes (intermediate effects), and impacts (progress on social issue).
And while he does devote a few chapters to population trends, social changes and religious or cultural movements, the mundane problems that preoccupy ordinary citizens much of the time – work, school, marriage, childrearing, boredom – receive scarcely a nod.
So most mornings and some afternoons, I'd devote a few hours to the small garden next to the house, aided by Filippo Bozotti, the handsome, animated, 33-year-old former documentary maker who co-founded and now runs Monestevole.
