How to Use all things to all people/men in a Sentence
all things to all people/men
noun phrase-
Own your space and do not try to be all things to all people.
— Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2021 -
There are politicians who want to be all things to all people.
— BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021 -
That could put less pressure on one piece of work to be all things to all people.
— New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022 -
Is there one place in the sphere of social media that’s all things to all people?
— J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2023 -
The boat show doesn't try to be all things to all people, said show manager Ben Nielsen.
— Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023 -
The goal, as The Nation’s John Nichols observed last week, is to somehow be all things to all people.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 June 2022 -
The government’s job is not to provide all things to all people.
— John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Or just another a stealthy pol trying to be all things to all people?
— Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021 -
Businesses should never try to be all things to all people.
— Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2021 -
Brands that try to be all things to all people need to have very deep pockets when buyers are more demanding.
— Richard Cook, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022 -
Trying to be all things to all people is usually a recipe for failure.
— Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021 -
Outside Business Journal Try to be all things to all people, and end up pleasing none.
— Outside Online, 8 Dec. 2017 -
You might be tempted to spread yourself thin right now, but being all things to all people just isn't possible.
— Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021 -
The institution could grow and become all things to all people because it was intertwined with the state.
— Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021 -
But that feeling — of guilt, of trying to be all things to all people while forging ahead with your career — is something that never goes away.
— Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2021 -
At the same time, Bed Bath & Beyond has been faulted by customers and analysts alike for trying to be all things to all people buying home goods.
— Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022 -
Companies, however, can rarely be all things to all people.
— Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2022 -
But the scramble to make Richter Tavern all things to all people has left it trapped in its own overproduced movie, flickering prettily against a brick wall.
— Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2022 -
No better example exists of Mitchell’s paintings’ ability to be all things to all people than Sans Neige (1969).
— Chadd Scott, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021 -
In its never-ending quest to be all things to all people, Netflix is continuing to build out a sizeable stack of horror content.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 1 July 2021 -
All of these qualities are important but no one institution can be all things to all people.
— Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020 -
The broadcast networks have always sought to be all things to all people, but that’s an almost impossible task in our fragmented marketplace.
— Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 19 May 2022 -
Your female relatives in their 30s feel pressure to be all things to all people (their children, parents, partners, supervisors).
— Washington Post, 28 June 2021 -
Your female relatives in their 30s feel personal pressure to be all things to all people (their children, parents, partners, supervisors).
— Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021 -
Espen Øino, who also designed Wanderlust’s predecessor Bold, created the yacht’s key design feature, a 4,300-sq. ft. hangar that becomes all things to all people.
— Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023 -
The unfortunate plight of anyone who makes commercial art for a fractured and marginalized community is that our creations are expected to somehow be all things to all people within that community.
— Camille Perri, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2020
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