Sentences with phrase «blank slates when»

While genetics play a role in how a puppy will develop when it comes to temperament, it is also true that puppies are blank slates when they are born.

Puppies are generally blank slates when it comes to training, so the gentler and more positive the training approach, the happier your dog will be in the long - run.

I like a blank slate when I walk into my kitchen.

This room was a blank slate when we moved in.

Not exact matches

When the ideas aren't coming to me on blank slate days, sometimes I create my own limitation.

It's healthy and a blank slate that works when added to almost anything.

When you superimpose on all of these little blank slates the powerful external forces at work to promote poor eating choices — coupled with the fact that processed, unhealthful foods are generally delicious — it's surprising indeed if any child chooses the brown rice over the pizza slice.

Finally the report calls for a «reimagining» and redevelopment of Rikers Island, which when it closes will provide a «blank slate» of 400 acres of land, which the report said could be used to expand LaGuardia airport or house solar power facilities, and other city infrastructure, which the report said could bring in $ 7.5 billion in annual economic activity.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

Figuring out how blank slate stem cells decide which kind of cell they want to be when they grow up — a muscle cell, a bone cell, a neuron — has been no small task for science.

When blank slate stem cells are exposed to a soft as opposed to a hard surface on which to grow, they begin to transform themselves into neurons, the large, complex cells of the central nervous system.

Starting with a random setting of its weights, the proverbial blank slate, the algorithm figured out which actions would lead the all - important score to increase — when exactly the paddle was most likely to successfully intercept the ball on the bottom to break a brick on its upward trajectory.

When I made the choice to hire a personal trainer, I was starting with a blank slate.

«Over the years we've continually changed little pieces of the formula and oftentimes it's just to affect a problem in one or two school districts, but too many times when you fix one problem in one place it causes a problem somewhere else,» he said, adding he wants to start with a blank slate and go «in any direction that the evidence leads us.»

Let's start the new school year with an open mind, a blank slate and a commitment to use real data when making judgments about schools.

Your credit is a blank slate and there is no better time to learn how to write on it in a way that will enrich your life than when you are young and have parents to help you avoid pitfalls.

Because when it comes to the biology of aging, the state is virtually a blank slate.

But when you have a blank slate, you can take action that will either head off possible negative associations to sudden events (management) or, if you are lucky, work towards creating a positive association.

«When development of Kinect Sports began it was a blank slate,» says Price.

In guest mode, your Chromebook will give the guest a blank slate and automatically erase their browsing data when they sign out.

Android is a highly customizable operating system, and that is often easier to do when starting with a blank slate.

Android users generally perform a full wipe in recovery mode or custom recovery (see above) to ensure that no personal data is left behind when selling a device, or to provide a blank slate upon which a custom ROM (see above) can be flashed (see above).

When you start a relationship you're a blank slate meeting a blank slate.

Employers have all sorts of preferences / prejudices when it comes to hiring — some prefer young «blank slate» employees, others prefer veteran performers; there are those who hire only MBAs, and those who refuse to hire MBAs; on and on.

When adoption agencies start to «get» the trauma adoptees are coming from be held accountable for placing us with ill suited families, that we are not blank slates to fit their ideal pictures of «family»..

Since the bulk of projects for most home staging companies is to work with what homeowners already have in place when their home is about to go on the market, it is always a thrill to stage a vacant home and be able to start with a blank slate.

Stuff like this inspires me to be brave, even when faced with a blank slate!

My home is the blank slate is was when we moved in - last June.

My goal is to transform this blank slate into a charming, unfussy, light filled space for us and our dogs to relax in when we are at the beach.

While we didn't have many handy dandy charm points as a built in advantage when we moved in, we do have a great blank slate.

We were lucky when we moved into our current home that we had a completely blank slate to work with so far as furniture was concerned and my non-existent budget meant that I had to buy everything slowly on ebay, a restraint that worked out beautifully in our favour — I found couches, armchairs, tables and a piano that fitted me perfectly and although our house is small, it is bright and airy so we decided against having any curtains to maximise the light... oh I could keep rambling on, but my point is that yes — a house should be organic and personal, not chosen out of the Pottery Barn catalogue.

For a long time I didn't know what I wanted, so I left it the blank slate it was when we moved in almost 10 years ago.