Sentences with phrase «about human experiences»

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

Through in - depth photo - essays, they tell stories about human experiences, the consequences of war and of the Egyptian revolution.

Directed by Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters), this Holmes mystery is ostensibly the secret of a forgotten last case, but it's really about the human experiences Holmes is least equipped to confront: friendship, compassion, the reasons to continue living as his sharp intellect loses its edge.

Philosophers have a lot to say about the human experiences you're interested in — emotions, memories, mental life.

Hence, a statement about an electronic occasion of experience can evoke propositions about such an occasion in much the way that a statement about human occasions can evoke propositions about human experiences.

«Great leadership is about human experiences.

As William Bennett puts it, paraphrasing Matthew Arnold, the educational canon is «the best that has been said, thought, written, and otherwise expressed about the human experience» (TRL 3).

The saga showcases elements of truth — truth about the human experience, the cosmos, the character of a hero, and the nature of life itself.

... [E] verything about human experience suggests that love is better than hate for the purposes of living happily in this world.

Or on the other hand, we can proceed from what we know about the world itself, about human history, and about human experience.

According to Murdoch, we have no evidence that there is any ultimate consoling truth about human experience.

Written by C. S. Lewis from the perspective of a senior devil mentoring a junior devil in the ways of temptation, The Screwtape Letters edifies the reader even as it engages difficult and ugly truths about human experience and total depravity.

Before I got sick, I think I knew a lot about the human experience and some universal experiences, but health issues certainly brought up many new feelings for me.

Although Arrival is about first contact with extraterrestrials, it says more about the human experience than the creatures from another world.

The description makes it sound like this is a fantasy film more about the human experience than CGI — the boy has to tell stories to keep the monster happy — and distributor Focus Features surely seems confident in the project, recently moving it to an awards - friendly release date in December.

The pack celebrates Shakespeare as a writer who still speaks for all people and nations, addressing big questions and themes about the human experience and what it means to be a citizen in the twenty - first century.

But his intellectual passion and curiosity about human experience make his ideas surprisingly relevant to our profession.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

No matter our age, nationality or current lifestyle, we are bound to love them, since they tell heart - warming stories about the human experience.

In my simplistic way, it seems to me that other arts can make statements about the human experience, while painting offers a breadth of interpretation that equals life.»

The staged photographs of Skoglund, Cindy Sherman, Spencer Tunick, Carrie Mae Weems and others bring imagined scenes and narratives to life, often speaking to broader truths about the human experience.

Shané K. Gooding is a photographer and video artist telling stories about the human experience.

Not exact matches

«It's a show about curiosity and uncovering the unexplored, blurry [lines] between science, philosophy, and human experience.»

It's fascinating to learn about the hugely varied ways in which people respond to a universal human experience,» says Morton.

In my experience in this industry the things that have been breakthrough have all been about connecting human beings to each other, communicating with each other.

«It's impossible to separate the «human» part from just about any buying experience,» she says.

HX, or «human experience» is about feelings, emotion, and connection.

«One thing that excites me about building a company is the human experience of making something out of nothing together,» our co-founder and CEO Walter recently wrote in a company email.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

I am not sure that a practicing believer of any faith, taking a break from verbosity about their religion, will be any less religious... or gain much insight into the commonality of humanity and human experience.

I don't accept anybody else's subjective experiences because I have some idea about how easily the human brain can fool itself into experiencing things that aren't real.

It asks respondents about a wide variety of human - interest topics, from their participation in religious services and religious beliefs, to questions about their attitudes regarding marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and other family forms, to specifics about sexual behavior and experience of abuse and domestic violence.

I have seen people that were «demon - possessed», have heard a lot of stories about ex-freemasons that interacts with lucifer, people that had near death experiences, people that have seen angels, people who can turn human beings into real zombies, (i can not prove / disprove these stories).

You Said: — «I have seen people that were «demon - possessed», have heard a lot of stories about ex-freemasons that interacts with lucifer, people that had near death experiences, people that have seen angels, people who can turn human beings into real zombies, (i can not prove / disprove these stories).

For it is not in rational explanations about God — explanations that fit our systems of knowledge and our human categories of experience — that we learn who God is and how to love God; it is in the response, «I am the Lord's servant.»

Each occasion of human experience makes a decision about itself in view of the past that it includes and the future that it anticipates.

But sometimes we earthlings can not get much further in our thinking about such things as love, fidelity, commitment and caring than to summon forth the image of some mama somewhere who will always be for us the concrete human experience of such divine ideas.

Let us think instead about how a moment of human experience comes into being.

The futilities and frustrations of human experience in any age are so many and so baffling that it is commonly easier to hold a high faith about God, whom we have not seen, than about man, whom we have.

(continued from 6/1/09) As little inclined as is Charles Taylor to connect the pre-ontological with the metaphysical, religious «experience» with cognitive assertions, he can not finally avoid making certain claims about the way things are, or at least the way human things are: We all see....

Moreover, in his preface he states he has in no way changed his mind about the need to follow an inductive approach to explore the «signals of transcendence» to be found in human experience (P. ix).

More than I realized, the experience of the last four years had raised profound questions about the human condition.

Now meditation as an exercise in prayer is no different from this sort of natural and normal human experience, except that it is thought about God, about God's character and his activity in the world.

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

And back then, wasn't it the fans wrapped up in «theories» who were ultimately disappointed when they found out that Lost wasn't really concerned with answering the thousands of questions it had raised — that it was less a heady show about theology and science and more an emotional show about its characters and the human experience?

There are those who think that a major shift in human consciousness is taking place, one aspect of which is an emphasis on spiritual experience rather than intellectual truths about religion.

They apply to every attempt to think about a framework of meaning that transcends human constructions and every claim to truth that can not easily be tested in human experience.

Though it is an innate human characteristic to have a conscience, what the conscience gets troubled about is largely a matter of training and experience.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

No illusions for us about human nature, no nonsense about innate goodness rendered corrupt only by experience or society.