Sentences with phrase «avoid despair»

The study suggests that brokers and team leaders who adopt a more reflective «error management» approach will be more successful in helping their sales associates bounce back after failure and avoid the despair of falling into learned helplessness.

That's why people who are unable to establish and maintain attachments fall victim to depression, anxiety, eating disorders, addictions, dysfunctional relationships, and other unhealthy behaviors in an attempt to avoid despair and loneliness as they seek happiness that they can't find without first repairing their ability to form healthy attachments to others.

To avoid despair he may make himself less sensitive and engage in self - deception.

God is not in the realm of the necessary at all; he is not necessary being, he is not necessary to avoid despair or self - righteousness.

Our numbed and bewildered society lacks ways of thinking and speaking that can help us find remedies — that can enable us to go deep into the crisis and so avoid denial, and to imagine a better future and so avoid despair.

But Ponsoldt has hardly made the downer it would seem to be on paper, avoiding both despair and schmaltzy melodrama for a realistic, down to earth depiction of the pitfalls on the way to making a better life for yourself.

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My family and life - framing help me remember what really matters, so I am able to avoid the downward spiral of despair.

She has a moral obligation to avoid sexual relations outside of marriage, but she also has the obligation not to thrust her children (and also a man she loves, perhaps in a misguided manner) into despair and misery.

What I loved about the rituals of grief — the viewing, the flowers, the stories, the songs, the laughter, the sobbing, the burial — was that they forced me to keep moving, to avoid getting stuck in a place of despair.

True hope avoids the extremes of despair and presumption, both of which actually are forms of pride.

Insofar as the problem of despair is overcome at all in Percy's fiction, it is through a confession that we are indeed «prisoners and exiles,» as he calls us — wanderers and wayfarers who can not avoid the quest for God and who thus must be ever waiting and watching, and listening for manifestations of the Holy in the most unlikely places.

You have returned to find so much more To despair: the flesh whiter, More helpless, the city stinking As never before, and those Whom you had so carefully avoided Are bringing tea and blankets now, The bounty of their gardens.

What can I possibly do to avoid loneliness and fear and despair now that I'm not drinking or using?

(I avoid referring to God as He, because God, containing all things, is so much more than male and / or female) I, too, called out from the depth of despair and was surprised to immediately receive an answer, and an instruction, tailor made for me, which I won't detail here; though I'd love to sit down with all of you and buy a round of beer, kosher wine, juice or whatever and chat some more.

Unrealistic expectations that can't be met result in the cynicism and despair in democracy that Dionne rightly wants to avoid.

Avoid getting caught up in despair by just starting the experiment.

His keen business acumen, honed by years in the private sector and creating one of the most successful financial companies in our nation's history, has kept us ahead of other cities (and even states like California) and helped New York avoid mass layoffs, middle class flight and, most important, civic despair.

Several cabinet ministers have long despaired of Brown in private; another recently told friends that he is happy to be sidelined so that he can avoid sharing the blame for defeat.

If there's a way to tell a story about cancer, avoiding downbeat despair and plugging in distinctly English humor without seeming flippant or anything less than honest, director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Morwenna Banks (whose 2013 BBC radio play «Goodbye» was the inspiration) do it well, finding a tricky balance between dignified and accessible.

To avoid giving in to despair, try to connect to other authors.

Call me lazy... but challenge me to cherry - pick (or avoid) a handful of best / worst days over the course of decades, and I'll throw my hands up in despair.

Although she joked to her sister Cassandra, in a letter of 1813, I do not despair of having my picture in the Exhibition at last — all white & red, with my Head on one Side,» Jane Austen (1775 — 1817) avoided the limelight.

He also wanted to avoid what he called «museum fatigue,» the despair that comes from looking down a long gallery and thinking, «Oh my God, I have to see 62 more paintings.

Fortunately, complete despair may still be avoided.

(The exception is in serious criminal cases, where they get a public defender who is trying to avoid burn - out and despair while carrying an absurdly heavy caseload.)

Anyone with an interest in settlement processes as a means of avoiding wasteful litigation will have read the two judgments in Newman v Framewood Manor Management Co Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 159 and [2012] EWCA Civ 1727 with despair and frustration.

By taking responsibility for your job search, you can avoid falling victim to feelings of helplessness and despair.

I enjoy teaching couples, and watching them learn to speak to each other with gentle respect and kindness, and learn conflict resolution skills that they can use to avoid escalation into ugliness, disrespect and despair.