Sentences with phrase «challenge our ideas by»

If your daughter or niece thinks she needs to look like a certain female celebrity, challenge the idea by asking how many people she sees everyday that would measure up to that standard.

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There's this undeniable endorphin rush, a good natural energy boost — and I like the idea of starting the day by doing something challenging.
But a company that only changes itself in tiny, incremental ways runs a different sort of risk: being put out of business altogether by a new idea that challenges the whole business.
Look for candidates that get excited by the idea of aggressive challenges and big goals.
Successful people challenge themselves by trying new things, exposing themselves to different cultures and ideas, and surrounding themselves with people who think differently.
Other new steps outlined by the administration include an online policy challenge to encourage entrepreneurs to offer new ideas to foster innovation, educational programs and commitments from more than 100 community colleges to promote entrepreneurship.
Leaders can sometimes get carried away by their own status and positional power and feel duty - bound to challenge ideas, and keep everything on track.
But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.
Breadware also sets about challenging industry standards, by helping clients bring their IoT ideas to fruition quickly and effectively.
Events include a challenge where startup ideas are pitched and critiqued by a panel of judges.
The We - Vibe has always been made from medical - grade silicone, challenging the idea that sex toys are by definition cheap, plastic and sold in stores with neon signs and nylon bunny costumes in the window.
They decided that by holding events in corporate innovation spaces, they could link incubators with corporate innovation officers, students and other networks, unleashing networking opportunities in order to connect challenges with solutions, ideas with practical implementation.
He's also the winner of the inaugural Breakthrough Junior Challenge, funded in part by a grant from Zuckerberg, which asks young people between the ages of 13 and 18 to create short videos that communicate big ideas in life sciences, physics and math.
There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.
To meet this political and economic meta - challenge, the hot new idea is the universal basic income — using some of the wealth generated by all this new technology to guarantee everyone a baseline income, whether they are working or not.
PEP will assist small businesses by providing them access to some of our region's top business students, who can help brainstorm fresh ideas and solutions to real challenges facing a business.
This idea was famously challenged by Nobel Prize economist Robert Fogel in his doctoral dissertation.
And by doing that, we'll be able to help push the conversation towards a new, more modern understanding of America's middle class challenges — and spur fresh ideas for a new era.
«I also challenge others to create new ideas and new markets by pushing the boundaries.
The draw of the CDM is that it demystifies and democratizes the challenging and risky startup process by introducing a step - by - step «recipe» to identify a potential business opportunity and extend it to the point of building a business around that idea.
And has mainstream economics done enough to respond to its own failure to predict the crisis and the challenge posed by Minsky's ideas?
On activism and information management, see also ««Best Ideas» Conference Presentations: Challenges Faced by Hedge Fund Managers Under Federal Securities Law (Part Two of Two),» The Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol.
Mr Deighan will have read in these pages «something very close» to the idea that Thomistic epistemology tends to emphasise «immutable essences» and static forms, and that this emphasis has been powerfully challenged by the success of modern science (for example Jaeger's article in our last issue and in our September 2006 issue the editorial and the quotes from Ronald Knox's God and the Atom).
The claim, «You don't believe the Bible is true» is nothing more than a smokescreen put up by manipulative religion to discredit or ignore a challenging teaching or idea about the Bible which disagrees or contradicts what that religion teaches.
Without scholars from the mainline willing to challenge the idea that the Torah was written by Moses, the creation accounts, the Flood, and the Exodus may not have been historical events etc...
Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»
The most challenging idea of this book may be that the Powers are redeemable, and we humans are part of the means by which the Powers will be redeemed.
By leaving out this important information and by failing to seriously explore those biblical passages that, at least at first glance, don't seem to support his thesis, Bell has left his readers ill - equipped to deal with challenges from those who don't agree with these ideaBy leaving out this important information and by failing to seriously explore those biblical passages that, at least at first glance, don't seem to support his thesis, Bell has left his readers ill - equipped to deal with challenges from those who don't agree with these ideaby failing to seriously explore those biblical passages that, at least at first glance, don't seem to support his thesis, Bell has left his readers ill - equipped to deal with challenges from those who don't agree with these ideas.
The idea that males and females are equal in being was promoted by the early evangelicals until the 20th century, when Enlightenment intellectuals challenged the miracles of Scripture, and more importantly, the inerrancy and authority of Scripture.
There is an unmistaken lift of spirit that comes from being in the presence of great beauty or challenged by invigorating ideas.
IF you continue to contend that god exists in more than an idea... get back to us... if not there is no serious challenge that can be logically considered by those who are intellectually doing their best to be honest with what is known..
For instance, a hypothetical public high school teacher who advanced New Age ideas and attitudes under a neutral or secular wrapping would be far less vulnerable to legal challenge than would be a teacher who spoke of God by name or who expounded on the biblical foundations of Western thought.
@Sabio... I agree that there are many interpretations that get stated, and maybe I'm just chiding at the idea that my own are always «confirmaton bias»... but I think I'm not the only one who has been suprised by a reading of David's cartoons or blogs that challenge my usual belief or interpretation.
When we find ourselves attracted and challenged by the cross, this is more than just an idea of our own that has happened to strike us.
A large part of the message of Jesus was the challenging of both Pharisaic and Gentile ideas of sin by a higher law.
(editorial addition: This cartoon is meant to challenge that stupid idea by pushing it to its ridiculous extreme.)
Washington (CNN)-- Televangelist Pat Robertson challenged the idea that Earth is 6,000 years old this week, saying the man who many credit with conceiving the idea, former Archbishop of Ireland James Ussher, «wasn't inspired by the Lord when he said that it all took 6,000 years.»
Peter Enns, Darrel Falk, and Karl Giberson exemplified this beautifully in their lectures by critiquing the ideas of those with whom they disagree without challenging their opponents» commitment to their faith.
This is good: we need to be challenged by different ideas.
Of course, these ideas are challenged by Christians and Marxists, but neither has yet successfully challenged the facts of mass poverty.
As members and pastors of congregations that encourage each other in faithful stewardship each autumn, we are challenged by this idea that we are stewards of much and owners of nothing.
In Psychopathic persons, mortifications may be entered on irrationally, by a sort of obsession or fixed idea which comes as a challenge and must be worked off, because only thus does the subject get his interior consciousness feeling right again.
Only if there had been a strong sense of tension between Christianity and the integrative American culture — a tension that was embryonically suggested by neo-orthodoxy but never substantially applied to challenge the idea of a culturally integrative science — might there have been a search for radical alternatives.
We pulled together 20 ideas — articulated by everyone from contemporary leaders and culture - makers to ancient thinkers and timeless scriptures — that will not only help you navigate the challenges of dealing with money, but can also change your view of it.
If there is any answer to that, it may well be found by meditating on the third, and most elusively powerful, of Bonhoeffer's ideas, written nine months before he was hanged: «Man is challenged to participate in the sufferings of God at the hands of a godless world.»
By actively trying to bring in talent with diverse backgrounds and providing internal and external training, the company believes it is challenging people to change their viewpoints and embrace a culture where everyone feels they can express their ideas.
I was excited by today's challenge because there are so many ways to interpret it — I'm especially looking forward to seeing everyone else's idea of comfort food.
During the three - day hackathon, 16 innovators, creators, engineers and industrial designers were invited by The Absolut Company to come up with new ideas on how the company can find innovative solutions to its sustainability challenges.
MEG raises the level of industry excellence by connecting, inspiring, teaching and challenging each other through the exchange of ideas, thought leadership and best practices.
The call stands, by the way, even if no one in the stadium had any idea what was being challenged and reviewed.
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