Sentences with phrase «common sense way of»

Let us again look at a fundamental and common sense way of building wealth, something which holds the key to powering your NetWorth.

It's time to go back to a common sense way of funding charter school children.

Not exact matches

«We're not going to see a complete redo of Dodd - Frank, nor should we... We're going to see some sensible, pragmatic common - sense changes to eight years of regulation... Things won't happen in a dramatic way, but it will definitely happen.»

Along the way, Bogle shows you how simplicity and common sense invariably trump costly complexity, and how a low cost, broadly diversified portfolio is virtually assured of outperforming the vast majority of Wall Street professionals over the long - term.»

The only way you make a long - term sustainable profit is to align your company and its employees around a common sense of purpose.

«You have to find a way to elevate yourself to be above common sense,» he said, speaking to an audience of entrepreneurs at the Inc. 5000 conference in Phoenix on Friday.

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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

He punctures the myth of the superiority of mutual funds and instead declares that by using a bit of common sense, low - cost index funds are the way to go for most modest stock investors.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

Perhaps the common - sense way to approach this is to accept the possibility that Chilean - style controls (taxes on short - term inflows) may be useful for some countries during the transition, but not too much should be expected of them (see the conclusions on Chile itself, which suggest that the controls managed to lengthen the maturity of the debt, without being able to prevent the exchange rate from appreciating during the phase of capital inflow)(see Edwards (1998)-RRB-.

One of the key principles is that Fed policymakers «should assess whether we can adjust regulation in common - sense ways that will simplify rules and reduce unnecessary regulatory burden without compromising safety and soundness.»

«When you realize that 40 or 45 percent of the world's pollution comes from the way we build and maintain our buildings,» he said, «it's just common sense to think that there's a better solution.»

But not only was the Reaganite touting of America's innate decency and common - sense revealed to be quite naïve by the developments of 2005 - 2013, the Reaganite free - market philosophy was revealed in a number of ways to be deficient.

We have experienced a few bumps along the way, but our congregation would not have endured some of the subsequent crises or developed a sense of common care over the past couple of years without it.

Traditions with a stronger sense of the common good, a better understanding that we need each other and will not make it all alone — in one way Judaism, in another Catholicism.

We badly need to discover a way to disavow neither our common sense nor this large portion of the Jesus tradition.

Here is the way I can make sense out of the common translation, and then you do with it what you wish, which includes ignoring it if it is not helpful.

So the challenge for us is to conceptualize our Christian faith in a way that is not dependent on the common sense of a different time, in a way that is understandable to us today.

There is no way to escape the fact that our common sense approach to the universe, our common sense of how it works, is very different in some important ways from the common sense of the Biblical authors and the formulators of orthodox Christian doctrine.

What is needed is a theology that explains God's presence and workings in a way that is consistent with this common sense, a theology that doesn't leave God in the unexplained fringes of our ignorance.

There are several arguments that can be advanced against this position: first, that there is no need to adapt or interpret the Bible this way because this «modern common sense» is quite uncommon; second, that the current popularity of a belief or point of view is no guarantee of its truth, so the Bible ought not to be adapted to suit the understanding of a particular time; third, that the Bible can not be adapted to this common sense, because this common sense excludes God; and fourth, that if our common sense disagrees with the Bible, then we must change our common sense after all, because the Bible is true.

It needs also to be said that common sense is not a single, monolithic way of thinking without variability or flexibility.

Similarly — and our common sense, modern philosophy, and the vast bulk of scientists are in agreement on this — while life and non-life both involve chemical reactions, life is qualitatively different in some very important ways.

It's common sense we should be focusing on the way the world is instead of what it SHOULD be.

We took occasion to note that Amos» thought of the universality of God was in some way dependent on his sense of a common human standard of right and wrong.

I'm not saying you or other deluded people can't be nice, but I need you to do it in a rational way using common sense, logic, and reason to the best of your abilities for the sake of everyone on this planet including yourselves.

We have already seen that the orthodox belief in the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth is (1) only one of the possible ways of explaining his centrality that can be developed from the New Testament; (2) does not fall within the limits of what is logically possible; and (3) is contrary to our common sense.

Since the constant in the New Testament is the centrality of Jesus and his message, and not any particular explanation of why and how he is central, we are then free to interpret this centrality in a way that meets the needs of our own day and our own common sense, so long as we remain compatible with the basic thrust of Jesus» teaching.

«How can anyone pay any attention to a doctrine that grew out of a Greek conceptual system being imposed on Jewish Scriptures, that was as foreign to Jesus as it is to us, that depends on concepts and a common sense that have gone the way of the Roman Empire, and that is about as understandable as if it were still written in ancient Greek?»

No way to make common sense out of that story, which is maybe the point of the story.

My common sense tells me that you had better repent of your heathen ways and offer a sacrifice to Zeus before he strikes you down with lightning.

How can we justify this authority for Jesus of Nazareth in a way consistent with our common sense theology?

This is sufficient for our faith — that we have a trustworthy guide — and this fits with our common sense in a way that other kinds of claims about Jesus do not.

There's no way of winning here so the best thing is: let girls fight girls and boys boys... This kid is showing more decency and common sense than the average American.

In this way he combines the direct realism of common sense with the causal theory of physiology.

1) multiple interpretations of the Bible exist 2) there are many ways to apply the teachings of the Bible to public life 3) no one denomination or spokesperson has a monopoly on how to accurately interpret the Bible and apply it to public life 4) because we live in a pluralistic society, we must learn to raise the level of public discourse so that we not only appeal to our specific religious tradition, but to a common sense of morality and justice

As essayist Katha Pollitt points out, the tendency to ascribe «particular virtues — compassion, patience, common sense, nonviolence — to mothers» is an overdone, and in some ways oppressive, cliché; telling yourself that toilet training a string of two - year - olds is good for your soul may keep you away from other worlds.

The Old Rail Splitter was, in many ways, a man of natural grace whose words and actions show ¯ as Lord Charnwood noted in his excellent 1916 biography ¯ a «most unusual sense of the possible dignity of common men and common things.»

Guess what, common sense tells me there is absolutely NO WAY that just ONE of these two parties knows what they're doing?

Common sense as well as most philosophy assumes that sense perception is the fundamental way of experiencing reality.

In a general way, then, and «on the whole,» our abandonment of theological criteria, and our testing of religion by practical common sense and the empirical method, leave it in possession of its towering place in history.

The way this plays out for most Catholics and confessional Protestants is in a kind of interim faith, a common - sense Christianity that stays fairly close to the ground.

Yet this impression of common sense, which by the way also leads the objections to Whitehead's mature cosmology, is erroneous.

The objects of perception from which common sense «proceeds» and which conventional theories assume to be such that we come into contact with them in an utterly elementary way, are results of complicated operations or, in other words, the concretion of complicated constellations which are to be thoroughly studied and explained.

Common sense and an education (neither of which you appear to have) go a long way In this world... no heaven, no planet for you to go to, no hell; nothing within your books can be shown to be true... do you care about the truth or are you a simple - minded fool merely wasting the only life you'll ever get for the grand delusion of something after?

The best way to cover a dish with parchment paper is to trace the upside down dish on the parchment paper (before filling it for you silly ones with no common sense) and then cut it out on the inside of the line.

Tribalism is an important part of football rivalry, but sometimes it can get in the way of common sense.

Tribalism is a key part of supporting any club BUT when it stands in the way of common sense, it becomes the enemy of the club and, by definition, those who reject common sense, also become our club's enemies.