Sentences with phrase «at self control»

Being a student these days is extremely rough; I'm damn impressed at your self control!!

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The study, which included 88 leaders and their subordinates, asked leaders to complete surveys at the beginning of each workday for two weeks, which asked about their sleep the night before and their self - control at that moment.

One found, for instance, that those with high self - control (i.e. those that are best at doing what they say they will) are often the subject of higher expectations from colleagues.

However, a study performed at Edinburgh University found that much of our predisposition toward determination, sociability, self - control, and sense of purpose is in our genes.

Alas, Yellen has too much self - control to ever really snap at any of the bozo politicians who ask her inane questions, but maybe she'll surprise us,» Cramer said.

«One great thing about self - control is that unlike other characteristics like intelligence, it's easy to improve,» says Nathan DeWall, a psychology professor at the University of Kentucky who studies self - regulation (he's also an ultra marathon runner).

At first, going to the gym will require self - control.

This suggests sprints might be an effective way to enhance self - control, decision - making, and willpower, at least in the short term.

At the same time that Florida students are pleading Congressional leaders to implement more gun control, a seventh grader in Jackson Township, Ohio was found injured by a self - inflicted gunshot wound early Tuesday.

Think about it: When was the last time you heard someone say, «You know, I pretty much suck at accurately identifying my and other people's emotions, at applying emotions to thinking and problem solving, at controlling my emotions and cheering up or calming down other people... really, I'm probably the least self - aware person you'll ever meet»?

emotions to thinking and problem solving, at controlling my emotions and cheering up or calming down other people... really, I'm probably the least self - aware

«Distance helps you see the big picture,» says Ethan Kross, director of the Emotion and Self - Control Laboratory at the University of Michigan.

If you're drinking alcohol, limit yourself to two drinks at most to save on calories and keep from getting inebriated and losing your self - control.

«Decisions deplete our self - control, so the more decisions we make in a given period, the less energy we have to think clearly and rationally about the next decisions,» says behavioral economist Zoe Chance, assistant professor at Yale School of Management.

At Facebook founder and CEO's Mark Zuckerberg's hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, lawmakers were blunt about what they see as the company's flaws — its inadequate self - policing, lack of transparency, and reluctance to give users more control over their own data.

As Autopilot technology continues to be developed, more advanced functionality will be made available to Tesla owners over time nearing full self - driving capabilities; however, until truly driverless cars are developed and approved by regulators, the driver is responsible for and must remain in control of their car at all times.

The maximum price of government price controlled 95 octane gasoline at self - service pumps in Israel will rise by NIS 0.11 to NIS 6.46 (a rise of 1.73 %) tonight at midnight, May 1, the Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources reports.

While polls show a third of U.S. consumers are interested in buying self - driving cars, the rest are skittish because they're worried about losing control, said Thilo Koslowski, vice president and automotive practice leader at Gartner Inc..

Uber said its self - driving cars, which require a person at the wheel to monitor or control them, did not fall under that strict definition.

At the same time, automakers are bringing more pieces of self - driving technology to market while insisting that the driver is responsible for the vehicle's operation and may need to take control of the steering wheel in challenging situations.

In Portugal, women's business enterprises that are at least 51 % owned, managed, and controlled by one or more women may self - register with WEConnect International.

You know, Andre, it's not so much what the LDS is about, I wonder at the LDS's lack of self control and sense of propriety.

At least they practice some self control in their religion which is more that can be said for the majority of Americans.

Stop trying to control people, you of all people should be comfortable in the self's ability to govern its actions, and you should be the most at peace knowing they will be punished for their wrong doings.

Wherever Jesus goes, there is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - control (cf. Gal 5:22 - 23), and these are found with Jesus even when He is dancing with whores and killers at the gates of hell.

The critical point of behavior control, in effect, is sneaking up on mankind without his self - conscious realization that a crisis is at hand.

Thanks to the breaking of social bonds in our families and communities, and the lack of self - control that a culture of indulgence promotes, we will continue to become more bureaucratic and inefficient in our governance, while at the same time creating the conditions whereby citizens become less capable of leading their own lives.

Cynical in the face of bourgeois hypocrisy, it aimed to destroy the traditional moral system and to create a virile community; to repudiate paternalism, exalt stern self - control and willingness to meet death, and establish equality at whatever cost in pain and suffering.

it takes self control to not curse out the girl at the fast food counter who got your order wrong.

At the moment of birth, the self - moving individual soul arrives into the body of the newborn in an ensouling process controlled by a metaphysical entity called «the World Soul.»

Bettelheim seems to have in mind such tales as «Hansel and Gretel» — one that he discusses at length — in which, although there are supernatural elements, it is the children's alertness, resourcefulness and self - control that enable them to win out over the malice of stepmother and witch.

I tried to gather together a diversity of women to honor the passage's instructions that older women are to teach younger women to «love their husbands and children, to be self - controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.»

Thus Peace is self - control at its widest, — at the width where the «self» has been lost, and interest has been transformed to coordinates wider than personality... It is the barrier against narrowness (AI 368).

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

Thus Peace is self - control at its widest — at the width where the «self» has been lost, and interest has been transferred to co-ordinations wider than personality» (AI 368).

Theology (at least as I do it) is hardly serene, self - generated, or in control; it is barely able to get the ship in before the unexpected storm, or the clothes in out of the rain — and it is always gasping for breath!

To show how tyrannical any country that aimed at achieving perfect justice — even at the expense of family, friendship, and the self - consciousness of persons born to love other persons and die as particular persons — would be, Socrates turned the rulers into gods and most people into animals to be controlled.

Wrong enters the picture only at the point where this entirely natural and necessary self - concern becomes the controlling interest, so that others are given no place in thought and practice.

The sad truth is that many marriages avoid the tough issues by instead becoming about shallow self - fulfillment — the money, the kids, control or security — or they cease to exist at all.

Successful people have mastered self - control in the small — the skill of saying no and yes at the right time to the right or wrong things.

For instance, Everett, a professor of ethics at Andover - Newton Theological School, notes that the confederations that eventually led to self - governance in some German cities and to democratic efforts such as the Weimar Republic after World War I had been deeply embedded in hierarchical and royal structures, with a high degree of centralized control.

The idea that we must always go forward, or the idea that, having gone forward, we will nonetheless be able to find ways to think of the children whom we have made and whose quality we have controlled as something other than products is, at best, puzzling, and at worst, all too self - confident.

But, if the person has not yet moved into the zone of progressive «loss of control,» the appropriate therapy is that which is aimed at lessening the pain for which the alcohol is being used as a self - prescribed anesthetic.

All the demands for unneeded preference in admissions and hiring, all the absurd litigation, all the efforts at speech control and thought control, and most important, all the programs to manage and «improve» the behavior of the men in her life, whether husband, boss, roommate, or date, have left her more disaffected and more mentally self - indulgent than before.

I guess whatever it takes to help you sleep at night, right... hate to burst any bubbles, but some of us have self control.

Is he also aware that if this is true, then the Nazi residue must reside in his own soul as well, and not simply as a matter of his romantically extravagant but deliberately self - controlled program to «be a fascist» (a decision he can turn on and off at will)?

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

A lifelong Protestant — at various times attending Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches and eventually an Episcopal church — I associated fasting with rigid control of the body, with extreme forms of self - discipline, with a denial of the flesh that I could not quite understand.

Pilate marveled at his composure and self - control.

«Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self - controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.»