Sentences with phrase «efforts at self»

Rusbult calls this the «Michelangelo effect,» since partners can help «sculpt» each other's best selves by affirming each other's efforts at self - improvement.

This makes it easier for them to understand how their efforts at self - control may be rewarded.

As she notes, the lower - self (where fears reside trying to protect us from re-traumatization) will resist efforts at self - reflection, because self - reflection brings us face - to - face with our hurt and our fears; with our trauma, with our self - criticism and fundamental insecurities.

Publishers, moreover, are happy to find your content online, since they can see if they like it and also appreciate your important efforts at self - marketing.

Despite my best efforts at self - restraint, I beat Google Maps» projected travel time to Gingerman by 45 minutes.

You've got to admire his efforts at self - promotion.

So far, however, Hyde's efforts at self - replication, which Gauld has headed, have been rocky.

«Zero Charisma» is a movie about emotionally inert people who labor mightily to change their lives in small ways, and whose efforts at self - improvement are thwarted by emotional feedback loops that cause them to make the same mistakes over and over.

Our privacy laws are also built around our own efforts at self - protection.

They are unwitting «Greens», whose efforts at self - improvement should be celebrated.

In my efforts to put this point across, I have no better allies than NCB advocates, lactivists and AP advocates who fall over one another in their narcissistic efforts at self - aggrandizement.

Outwordly, all my efforts at self improvement were successful.

In fact, this same body has attacked the Ukrainian Greco - Catholic Church for supporting Ukraine's efforts at self - defense (that support is purely in terms that flow from Catholic social teaching).

The greatest intensity of experience may often be dependent upon the greatest efforts at self - modification.

The closer one gets to the «nerve» of the self, the more devious are the efforts at self - protection and self - deception.

God's power becomes available to man to complete his incompleteness and purge him of his vain efforts at self - completion.

unimaginable proportions in order to galvanize efforts at self and social transcendence.

It mobilized group efforts at self - awareness and self - understanding; it dispelled the flatness by precipitating here - and - now involvement; and it freed the leader from any pretense of always being «on top of it,» tuned in, fully aware.

Mysticism as an effort at self - improvement was doomed to failure.

Never before has an Administration acted in so corrupt a fashion or courted so many nefarious entities in a brazen effort at self - promotion, damn all public consequences.

Not exact matches

«Those featured are an inspiration to anyone who fears that they may have to be closeted at work, and waste valuable effort muting their authentic selves,» said Suki Sandhu, chief executive of OUTstanding.

It's former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, characterized by Waymo's attorneys as a rapacious executive whose win - at - all - costs attitude and frustration with his company's self - driving efforts led him to conspire with Levandowski to steal the «sauce» that catapulted Alphabet's self - driving development to be the leader of the pack.

As part of the acquisition, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick put Otto co-founder — and one of the first employees of Google's self - driving car project — Anthony Levandowski at the head of all of its autonomous technology efforts.

Currently, I'm freelancing while looking for a job at a truly badass company, so right now my content marketing efforts are really for self - branding purposes.

And two of the top engineers at the effort, Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, left at the same time as Urmson and started Nuro.ai, their own artificial intelligence company that will work with self - driving cars.

It also comes at a time when Uber is doubling down on its self - driving efforts with both the soft launch of its UberFreight service and the self - driving pilot in Pittsburgh, as well as the acquisition of artificial intelligence and machine learning research startup Geometric Intelligence.

The moves come following Uber's acquisition of self - driving trucking company Otto in August, which put co-founder Anthony Levandowski in charge of the company's autonomous efforts above existing directors Raffi Krikorian — who was previously at Twitter and joined Uber in March 2015 — and John Bares — who was poached from Carnegie Robotics in January 2015.

According to extensive interviews Recode conducted with former and current employees at the self - driving effort, many think it is at a technological standstill and plagued by significant internal tension, especially among its executive leadership.

But rather than using that scale to crush the competition, he has spearheaded an effort called Apollo, aimed at making the advancement of self - driving car technology an open, collaborative process.

Eckroth has a reputation for introducing innovative solutions during his tenure at Hertz, where he spearheaded efforts to automate the car rental process, create efficiencies and introduce self - service systems and processes.

Uber has officially asked Anthony Levandowski — the former head of the company's self - driving efforts and the executive at the center of the Alphabet lawsuit — to waive his Fifth Amendment rights and cooperate with a court's order to turn over any files he may have downloaded, including those on his personal device.

At the center of the suit is a former Alphabet executive, Anthony Levandowski, who led its early efforts in developing self - driving technology.

I am sorry there are people that have no faith in God, but I am more saddened by the efforts of ALL in this discussion to cast words of hate on others in some personal attempt at achieving self - worth at the expense of someone else's belief (or non-belief).

A noble effort, and probably a positive contribution to life online — but at its worst, Laura Turner wrote for Religion News Service, «Instapray can be like the worst possible version of Pinterest,» another forum for auto - worship and self - congratulation.

In spite of all my efforts to change over the years, I still recognize the same sinful self that was there at the beginning.

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.

The roots of this distinction lie in Augustine's thought: the service of private ends by private persons manifests cupiditas — wrongly directed, self - centered love or motivation — while efforts by those at the head of communities to serve the good of those communities show the effect of a concern for justice informed by caritas, rightly directed love.

Odd again, because, despite my best efforts to see something heroic in this man's biography, which might explain what his prose does not, I confess to see at best what Stephen Spender referred to, in a 1979 New York Review of Books piece (March 25, p. 13) on modern German self - analysis, as «der Nebel,» the fog that «allows people to live with unbearable experiences»; the fog that made it possible to «go along» or «not know.»

Fifth, the church's efforts at ministry with the corporate world must begin with self - reflection and evaluation.

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.

Second, the psychologist most frequently associated with Nietzsche is Freud, but Brooks isn't at all talking Freudian psychology when he tells us that «it is possible to achieve momentary harmony through creative work,» or that we don't secure «the good life through heroic self - analysis but through mundane, self - forgetting effort, and through everyday routines.»

We die to self when we at last realise that in us is no good thing and we are totally incapable of living the resurrected life by self effort then and only then will we give up and surrender as a failure to Christ then in us the hope of glory in our hearts rises and we find we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us when we rely totally on Him putting no confidence in our flesh.

It is the demanding passivity of those who would be made «patient» of use by God; and that means a willed opening of the self so that all one's efforts and energies are at his disposal.

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.

Reality, once self - evident, and therefore not conceptually experienced, but which can now only be reached by an effort of the individual mind — this is what is contained in a true poetic metaphor; and every metaphor is «true» only insofar as it contains such a reality, or hints at it.

The self - righteousness of the great powers will resist efforts at greater justice.

or simply trying to prove us all wrong again by showing that he could play just about anybody anywhere and win a game on the road against a top opponent; something he hasn't done in quite some time... regardless of the reasons, there is simply no excuse for the goings - on at this club... unfortunately it's unlikely that any real change will come without a dedicated effort on the part of those that feed the beast... our absentee landlord doesn't invest his own money into this club, so in order to force out Kroenke, Wenger and whatever other vermin currently haunt our hallowed halls we need to hit him where it really hurts... continually filling «his» stadium and the constant buying of endless merchandise, like one of the 58 different jerseys available over the last few years, makes us the greatest enablers of all time... have we no self - respect?

Joining a club of arsenal s stature has its ups and downs.There is a requirement of how our players should perform when on the pitch.The following is a list of players who were wrong to choose arsenal.Aaron ramsey - Even though he is the most favoured of all players at the club now.I cant help but think how it would have gone for Him if he decided to search for other greener pastures.He was a clear talented footballer during his time at cardiff but he hasnt been raised with the discipline at arsenal.You can always see ramseys all round strengths but sadly Its not helping him or the club with his foward moving pleasurr.He is so Over used and its sometimes difficult for him to get used to the rythm of the game.With time you realise he gets low ib confidence and his engine gets wasted.He needed somebody who would have managed him properly and with care and that person is certainpy not wenger.You would have been better off at Manu mate.Calum chambers - Came us a very talented player from southampton with raw talent.He was very good at first but wenger found a way to reduce his level of confidence.His inexperience was left exposed and wenger did nt do anything to resolve that problem and instead He looked for other talented players.Alex oxlade chamberlain - Another very talented player who needed only his skilled sharpened and his character modelled.That and he was ready to become a world beater.But wenger decided to let him run and run like a headless chicken causing him to be often injured and damaging his confidence.Who knows what would have happened to him gad he decided to look for more greener pasture.He is surely a much better player than this.Theo walcott - Another player who was tipped to have a very bright future.He had it in him.But all he needed was an appropriate manager who would nurture him with discipline and help him with his talent.But on Coming to arsenal he was given Much more responsiblities putting more weight on his shoulders on top of that another player who was recklessly managed with his talent and never coming off age because his character wasnt properly shaped.Mesut ozil - Al right i agree he perfoms well just recently.But imagine all the legendary players he was often compared to during his time at real madrid.On coming to arsenal he found no rotation often overused, suffered many injuries and his confidence dwindled.It is pretty clear arsene does not take any responsibility for players.And when at arsenal you have to be your own manager.You need not rely on your manager otherwise you might continue being the same player for the next many years.That is why each and every player are what they are because of their own efforts and wenger had nothing to do with it.Van persie was the same player for over 7 years untill he himself decided to change.Wenger only organises and prepares tge team while the rest is in your court.It is not what so many people make it out to be.Thats why we need to pressure wenger more than our own players.They are their own self managers and wenger needs to take that responsibility

Isabelle Brabant, a self - trained midwife who has delivered more than 400 babies, arrived at a hospital less than 10 minutes after the baby stopped breathing during a home birth and her resuscitation efforts failed.

So if you typically come a-running at every little noise or cry, you may actually be waking your about - to - nod - off baby or derailing her own efforts to self - soothe, and that's not good for anyone.