Sentences with phrase «at my beliefs about»

Lecturing pushed me to draw on knowledge, experience and academic skills with students but also forced me to take an introspective look at my beliefs about the social work profession and about the skill development typical within the training course at that point.

Not exact matches

At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

Researchers found that participants» beliefs about a particular issue were less likely to change the longer they looked at a speaker's eyes.

That moment encapsulates a lot about what is at the center of Cole's belief system about people and about how to do business: Focus on the positive, even across a wide experiential or cultural background.

«About a year ago there was the belief that the iPhone X could create a super upgrade cycle and now it appears that the iPhone X is a great high end product but priced too high at $ 999 with memory configurations over $ 1,000 is aimed for the high end market and Apple is positioning its product in various price tiers with high, mid and lower end prices.»

The two spoke at length about investing and economics, but Dalio also responded to Robbins's questions about his unconventional and occasionally controversial leadership beliefs (including claims that Bridgewater was a «cult,» according to a 2011 report in Institutional Investor).

Most of all, she left a legacy of passion -; a deep belief that people at every level of an organization can understand what the business is all about, that they can learn to track the numbers and help move those numbers in the right direction.

The document's author also wrote that employees with conservative political beliefs are discriminated against at Google and lamented about how «leftist» ideology is harmful.

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It's about solving for the customer and having the belief that aligning your customers» interests with yours (and even, reasonably, putting them ahead) leads to better outcomes, even when it may not make (economical) sense at the moment.

At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.

Putting aside his mistaken belief that his voters are «Aussie Battlers» - when in fact they are hard - working small business owners and contractors, many of whom receive franked dividends from their business endeavors — it's worth looking at what all the fuss is about... Continue...

The primary mistake that those who were bearish on profit margins made in earlier phases of the current market cycle — and I would have to include myself in that group, at least for a time — was not the mistake of having «wrong» beliefs about the subject, but rather the mistake of assigning too much confidence to those beliefs.

The reason for Australia's third - ranking iron ore miner traditionally being seen more as prey than predator is a function of its once sky - high debt levels, uncertainty about its ore grade, and a belief that at some point Forrest would be tempted to cash out of the company he created.

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

But nice try at deflecting attention from your, or any believer's, inability to answer the most basic of questions about your beliefs.

For some Christians, feminism contradicts deeply held beliefs about gender and the characteristics and roles they believe were assigned to men and women at the point of creation.

Not all Jews believe this, BTW, but in Judaism I have yet to run across someone who believe that G - d would punish anyone for their «beliefs» and not their «deeds» (take a good look at the Tanach... the contract with the Jews (known as the «teachings of G - d», not «the law») is all about behaviour; and while many Christians have been raised to view «the teachings of G - d» (the law) as something to be «freed» from... one has to ask the simple question..

To close in «The Stand» Mother Abigail and Nick Andros (who is portrayed as being at lest agnostic) have a discussion (through Ralph reluctantly translating for Nick) about his belief (or lack of) in the Christian god.

Almost 20 years ago I had an illness that left me, literally on death's door, and at the time I don't recall thinking about my spiritual beliefs — all of my thoughts were indeed on my friends and family.

If you have view at all about any subject you have a belief about that subject.

I would argue that any further knowledge of / about God can not happen if you remain behind the line of belief, whether you can factually prove anything empirically (that you can make God prove Himself at will) or use the vehicle of myth, legend, story or subjective and very personal experiences too extraordinary for words to fully convey.

They were persecuted no doubt about it, jesus followers decided to rise up for there beliefs (not impose there beliefs on people, they werent allowed to have beliefs at that time) and were slaughtered for it.

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

As a very old man, one who has worked at developing some kind of understanding of who we are, what we are, why we are here, and where we are going, I can tell you that no one has definitive answers, but without some underlying system of belief about these questions you will not grow old gracefully.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Then there are those who are passionate about their beliefs or lack thereof, and at times the banter gets rather heated (these are my personal favorites).

At least she will let me think about what I want, indulge me in any final words I have, spare me her beliefs until after I'm long gone.

In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

You a-people (a-theists, a-gnostics, etc.) are all really good at telling people what you don't believe or why other peoples» beliefs are wrong, but I don't really get to hear what you DO believe about things.

If religion was about understanding and examining one's beliefs, catholic children wouldn't be taught the concept of transubstantiation at age 7.

The pastor said of what he has read about Mourdock's remarks, they largely lined up with the church's teachings on the sanctity of life and their belief that life begins at conception.

If you require evidence as strong as the extraordinary claims merit, then you will be in the best position to arrive at a justified belief about God.

Those who are Buddhists will follow one set of laws, secular humanists on, Utilitarians on, Unitarian Universalists one (with a lot of variation), etc. «Atheism» in itself says nothing at all about one's ethical beliefs.

At this level you not only are able to critique the texts and doctrines and their relationship to one another, but you are able to make judgments about the whole thought system and belief system altogether.

When I tell people about the John Frum cargo cults of Vanuatu, they laugh at what the sillyunsophisticated natives believe When I tell people about Mormon beliefs they shake their heads at the things a fool will believe When I tell people about $ cientology they shake their heads at the things a fool will pay to believe

@Julie and mat: Before you throw fits about how anti-christain cnn is, how about you look at the varying articles about Christianity on the Belief blogs.

Vic: «hence, Belief / Faith in God or lack thereof is per capita AND at 100 % -LSB-...] p.s. I have a theory about the fast - paced same-se.x marriage advancement, I believe it has to do with the near end of term for -LSB-...]

It is about fundin other more controversial «birth control» products that take the life of unborn children (you have to remember the perspective here that there is an underlying belief that life begins at conception).

But such characterizations are misguided and one can not help assuming that it is, at least to a large extent, a consequence of mistaken assumptions about the nature of authentic religious belief.

And because belief is an evolving, changing, living thing (or should be), you would have to poll the class at the beginning of ever single class to find out if the prayer you are about to offer is objectionable.

By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor (CNN)- Two days before Christmas, Imam Mohamed Magid, the executive director at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, preached about Jesus at Friday prayers.

First, a report from the University of Chicago called «Belief About God Across Time and Countries» looked at survey data from 30 countries, reaching as far back as 1991.

Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaders.

Have you ever made assumptions about how someone arrived at their beliefs only to be proven wrong?

We wouldn't care about your myths if they weren't thrown at us from every direction, usually starting in childhood where the defenseless are forced to accept belief systems.

When I talked about deconstructing the belief that the world would be better run if they went the way I say they should, I was making fun at my own expense.

What I don't see here is hard questions about whether this kid picked up his beliefs at this mosque in the first place?

I've been watching people with golden crosses around their necks and on their lapels shout at the TV about how serving gay and lesbian people is a violation of their «sincerely - held religious beliefs.»

Thank you for giving me the chance to express out but still I am hurt and a nice word will cool it of and guide me if wrong and about quitting I would because what I am doing now at CNN is taking almost my whole time since the Quran burnning issue and would out doubt I will go back to it and that's why I mentioned earlier that we back here worry about our daily bread and water for family support but needed from you in the free world to notice us out there and have your say on behalf of all heavenly beliefs that what is happening is wrong, One Nation Calamities to other nations benefit, profit?!