Sentences with phrase «about living a principled»

But this book isn't so much about success in achieving big goals as it is about living a principled and balanced life.

Dr. Weinstein recently talked with Education World about the Life Principles and helping children learn to make decisions ethically.

Not exact matches

As Priceline.com cofounder Jeff Hoffman, co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back, likes to say, «Your business plan is more about the questions you ask and get yourself to struggle with than it is about finding the «right» answer.»

But what really impresses me most are the leadership qualities he talks about in his book Principles: Life and Work.

The premise is that it is all about living in the present, accepting change and having a simple set of principles that guide you through life.

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

Since discovering Jack Canfield's Success Principles about ten years ago, she began at once testing them out thoroughly in her own life, as well as watching them work in the lives of others.

In this book, Ray tells you how he figured it all out — and about all the principles that guided him in his life, business and financial success.

«The principle of living debt - free is not about being good money - citizens for the sake of it.

Right... so they didn't overtly «ask» you, however if you and the other members are living by «correct principles» then not a big leap to decide for yourself about the evils of gay marriage and contribute money yourself... which, in fact... many of you did, yes...?

Participants in the conversation from all walks of life should seek to describe authentic human fulfillment and propose safeguards against the many opportunities for abuse, until a body of principles and a consensus about the best applications of genetic knowledge emerge.

These and other principles of just war arose out of Christian convictions about the value of human life, social order and the rule of law.

I agree in principle with what you say about living live as it is designed.

I have been doing a lot of reading and thinking about this over the past six years or so, and some of what I have learned will find its way into my upcoming book about giving up our rights, but here is a post about non-violent resistance, and some of the principles involved for living this way.

How about Fractal Cosmology becoming a principled sensibility wherein the inside of living things is an exacting reflection of the outward dimension of spatial relatives?

Nat Hentoff's lived a full life writing not only about jazz, but about the principles of a free society.

But specification of these combinations says nothing about the possible organizing principles that «harness» biochemical processes and integrate them into hierarchically higher dimensions of being — life and mind.

The gospel is about how to live here and now so we look like Jesus and practice the principles of the Kingdom of God.

Im not talking about religion, or being religious, but believing in His word and applying it to your daily life, living it truly not by man's principle, but by God's Word, putting faith in Him just as a mother would to a babysitter who is going to look after her child, or just as you would trust someone with your money, or yet with your own life.

If you don't like to think about that principle in a sense that involves God, then think about the movie «It's a Wonderful Life.»

This is not to say that we can not come to impassioned, principled positions about how to vote, particularly when dealing with issues as important as sexual assault, bigotry, racism, responsible foreign policy, religious liberty, and the dignity of human life at every stage in its development.

It is their «principle of life», something much more profound than can be indicated by talk about their goodness of life and their concern for righteousness, truth, and the other virtues.

If we can not afford to reflect seriously about the meaning of Christian faith in relation to new issues that confront us, Christian faith ceases to be the central organizing principle of our thinking and living.

Keeping in mind the principle of linkage, we see how anxiety about death may be bound up with unresolved questions about the meaning of life.

Whether we are speaking of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body of principles which informed the daily work of increasingly larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of the poor.

This made us all feel that we had before us not only a theological professor but also a Christian man whose life was swayed by the great principles about which he spoke -LSB-...] He not only made us see the truth, but he made us feel its power and perceive its beauty.»

I remember one of my teachers, Dr Don Burt, who said that as we teach about spiritual principles and spiritual healing that if issues in our own lives don't come up we aren't teaching effectively.

It is clearly not rationalistic in the sense of deducing its content from universal principles of reason, but few thinkers today believe that any truth about life or the world can be learned in that way.

[10] It is not clear whether he thinks the soul is just a myth, but one would hardly think that Aristotle was writing about a mythical concept of the soul in his De Anima, since he argues for the soul quite scientifically: what distinguishes all living from all non-living things in the world we see must be some primary principle of life which he says is the soul.

... but we have not been taught to live in the Kingdom, but rather fantasize about it, while sitting in a pew learning a moral or principled derivative skimmed off the side.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

I liked the book because the principles he shares encapsulate my thinking from the past five years about the kind of life I want to live among the people at my job and in my neighborhood.

And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.

They said they have made «a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today,» that their faith is very important in their life today; believe that when they die they will go to Heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior; strongly believe they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs about Christ with non-Christians; firmly believe that Satan exists; strongly believe that eternal salvation is possible only through grace, not works; strong agree that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; strong assert that the Bible is accurate in all the principles it teaches; and describe God as the all - knowing, all - powerful, perfect deity who created the universe and still rules it today.

Suddenly, I saw the Bible as NOT a «religious book» nor a «bunch of rules about how to please God»... but instead as a book of PRINCIPLES about how to live an abundant life.

The foreword of the present book includes a 1965 letter from Ramsey to Fletcher: «[T] he candid issue between us is whether agape is expressed in acts only or in rules also, which question is generally begged; or else the structures in which human beings live are attributed to other than uniquely Christian sources of understanding (natural law, etc.) while Christians go about pretending to live in a world without principles.

1) those who never heard of the Islamic principles, perhaps because they were living too far off 2) those who where exposed to Islam with false claims about the religion (thus misleading them into like islamophobia),

instead of worrying about his color why don't we try to live according to his principles and just maybe we can turn this country around.

It was an exercise in delusion, if not hypocrisy, because all that we said about equality, life, liberty, public happiness, freedom, the right of assembly, participation, and the other noble principles applied in fact only to the white man, not to the majority of persons in this country, who at that time were red, or to a sizable minority who were black and in chains.

Religious liberty is about more than just the protection for «religious organizations and persons... as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths.»

Thus the function which the tradition about Jesus performed in the life and worship of the Church came to be recognized as the organizing principle in the formation of the individual stories and sayings, and in the formation of the Gospels themselves.

We should have certain and reliable information about the character and personality of God, about the purpose and meaning of this life, about values and principles by which man can live usefully and happily, and about physical death and what lies beyond it.

The Christian «vision» that frames this principle disposes practical thinkers to adopt a «realist» stance in public life, resisting both naïve illusions about the possibilities for human goodness and cynical dismissals of moral accountability.

The Netflix series «House of Cards» is a warning about what life might look like in a world without Christian principles, and it is not pretty, even if it is riveting drama.

You realize that when Paul was teaching about immortality and eternal life that he was talking about two different principles.

The increasing humaneness and inwardness of moral life under the influence of the great prophets and Jesus is illustrated in the changing ideas about forgiveness of enemies: In the older strata of documents, retaliation was distinctly taught as the proper principle of legal procedure — «Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.&ralife under the influence of the great prophets and Jesus is illustrated in the changing ideas about forgiveness of enemies: In the older strata of documents, retaliation was distinctly taught as the proper principle of legal procedure — «Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.&raLife for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.&ralife, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.»

What if Christians are right about Christ and his teachings and that HE is the way to Heaven then they will be in Heaven one day and those who do not follow Christ will be in Hell... However, if they are wrong at least they don't lose out as they have tried to live their lives according to principles that most of us would say are commendable and so they WIN either way....

The kingdom is about justice, and mercy, and faith (23:23), not about following the minutest of laws and the tiniest principles which not only confuse the clear meaning of Scripture, but also do not provide aid to anyone in their life with God.

Get the facts, principles, method and support from somebody who does this for a living... somebody who is passionate about it, and who has offered to be your mentor.

As with all of the principles in our course, these lessons about encouragement also apply to other important relationships in your life.