Sentences with phrase «for grasping things»

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There are few things more frustrating than working for a leader that has little grasp of the facts, or reality surrounding a decision.

Two and a half years into the mandate and no real result on the election promise.This sort of thing is par for the course, though.A tactic played over and over which the general public doesn't seem to be able to grasp.

The idea of not having a functional organization until the organization has found a proven business model is one of the hardest things for new startups to grasp.

Yesterday, President Obama took to the podium and proclaimed, ``... we have always been and always will be a triple - A country,» and it sounded like empty sentimentalism from a man at a loss for words and for meaning» the kind of helpless, grasping - at - straws thing you say to a defeated friend you are trying to buck up, even as you know you lack the answers, or the resources, to offer either consolation or solutions.

The idea that leaving the church as we know it will bring freedom is for me a difficult thing to grasp.

he IS grasping at straws since the singel parent thing wasnt an issue... secondly... you apparently need to go to school and learn that there IS a difference between a woman and a man and that children benefit from BOTH... and hwo a man loves a woman as nature intended... its people like you who are reason for high divorce rates in USA, because they don tknow what love or marriage is..

One sad thing for me is to see people who grasped the milk of Christianity many years ago and have decided that they now know it all.

This hermeneutic of love is not mere sentimentality, but one that looks to Christ for its definition — Christ, who did not consider power a thing to be grasped, but humbled himself and became a servant to the point of death on a cross.

Given the context of this discussion, I realize simple concepts like considering the context in which you proselytize is a difficult thing for you to grasp so there is nothing left to say and unfortunately leave you to your delusion.

in a way i have sympathy for this kind of person, after all, they believe their church is dull and will grasp at the first thing that maybe offers a solution.

For Heidegger, Being is the ultimate reality, though not itself a thing or substance which can be grasped with certainty by the mind or relied upon as a metaphysical ground.

His metaphysics provides a structure for understanding both the unity and the variety, the independence and the interrelatedness of things; it allows us to accept the fleetingness of an experience of value and yet to grasp its eternal significance; its understanding of process recognizes the reality of both being and becoming.

Independence, on the other hand, emerges out of an awareness that there are other things to live for and we have within ourselves the ability to reach out and grasp them, if only we will.

Where I would previously have been inclined to agree with Whitehead's characterization of Bergson that the intellect cart only grasp by spatializing, I now think (and have argued above) that I had failed to recognize fully the implications of the claim I had argued for in 1993 — that if there can be no intuition without intellect, and if intuition can grasp intelligible things without spatializing, then there is a sense in which the intellect, insofar as it is manifest in intuitive operations of consciousness, can grasp experience without spatializing it.

For Nietzsche, on the other hand, the essential unity which may be said to underlie all things is not a complete totality which we can grasp through reason (as it is with Hegel), but an open - ended, incomplete process or chaotic flux which finds expression in the contingent, finite, temporal process of growth and decay which are characteristic of nature.

Who cares if Santa's white (I am not touching the Jesus thing, people will continue to insist a Palestinian was white for reasons I will never grasp), but how can you possibly instill the holiday spirit in children if they don't believe a terrifying horned creature will beat them with sticks or pop them in a sack and drag them off to a ship if they don't behave?

We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other things by their means, and in handling the real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth as we might lose these mental objects, these adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads of classification and conception.

The reason why I have said such things as, «Forget about the churches for the moment,» is simply because I think that an entirely new, unprejudiced grasp of the God - man relation is essential for our generation.

Sometimes, God does not permit some to move on to maturity and deeper spiritual truths until they have learned, grasped or accomplished certain things that he had for them.

I know there is no recipe for these horrible mind things (been depressed myself so know full well how what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another) but I was grasping at a straw when I asked you for some insight.

Sorry to put you on the spot, Ray, I know there is no recipe for these horrible mind things (been depressed myself so know full well how what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another) but I was grasping at a straw when I asked you for some insight.

Now when educators come to examine our electronic information environment for its biases, the first thing to be grasped is that it has a curriculum all its own.

For to affirm that all things eternally recur, and recur eternally the same, is to grasp an absolutely chaotic movement or flow, a movement in which identity and difference flow into one another, and nothing at all either preserves its own identity or remains different from anything else.

While common sense develops only a dull, vague, but solid feeling of the infinite reproducibility of this elementary experience, say, feeling the stone under the butt and the butt on the stone, natural science consciously aims at optimization and at an optimized grasp of the persistence and regularity of constellations of events, which satisfy the requirements for stability that things have.

It is not an act of speculation, but a direct grasp of this mystery — that things had a beginning, and that all that preceded and concerns this beginning has a considerable weight for human existence.

The men who wrote it were grasping for explanations to things they couldn't possibly truly understand.

Staupitz, in his reply months later from his southern hideout, was warm but guarded: «My love to you is unchanging, passing the love of women, always unbroken... But as I do not grasp all your ideas, I keep silence about them... It seems to me that you condemn many things which are merely indifferent... but we owe much to you, Martin, for having led us back from the husks which the swine did eat to the pastures of life and the words of salvation.»

Mckenna has played with an Oball rattle since she was able to grab onto things and the Oball rattle is perfect for small babies who are learning to do just that, because its entire surface is easy to grasp.

When they are infants, it's not quite as important because they are not reaching and grasping for things.

But as soon as they start grasping for things, even on the changing tables or whether laying down or you're playing with them you wan na start looking around for small objects that they can pick up and put in their mouth and they can possible choke on.

I think the best thing to do is wait for signs of readiness, which include things like pincer grasp and an interest in food.

By now I have a clear grasp on the importance of what Montessori does for children ages 3 - 6, by creating an environment for them to be successful at the things they are capable of doing themselves.

Wait, someone died in your high school from this very thing — yet you still can't grasp how serious and important this issue is for some parents?

And because they have a strong natural grasping reflex (but don't yet know how to let go of things) watch out for some potentially painful moments.

Suddenly he or she has to share this time with someone else and I think that can be a really hard and emotional thing for a toddler to grasp.

Already sitting up straight by himself, sleeping through the night, grasping and holding things, and has been holding his neck for over a month now.

This week was fun for us because having a 16 month old means that dexterity and the pincer grasp are fairly developed and she is definitely wanting to truly get into things and explore.

Probably best for older children or babies who have the hang of their hand movements and can grasp things well.

These little green nuggets of fun are the ideal thing for your baby to practice her evolving pincer grasp and not only that, peas are fun to pop too.

Your preschooler might not grasp that this change is permanent and may long for things to return to normal.

He should be grasping by 2 months, and reaching for a toy by 3 months - and should I feel like a bad mom if my LO isn't doing those things??? I'm constantly wondering «HOW» do I show him, or teach him.

Pretend games like «store» or «bank» are also a fun way for preschoolers to grasp that money buys things.

After a couple of months, we started to use things that were in line with her abilities (rattles for grasping, chew toys because she was teething, etc).

Their grasp is not well developed yet and so things like baby ring toys are the best for them to be able to hold on their own, but a parent will always be in the water with the baby so water squirting toys that the parent can use to squirt water onto the baby's hands and feet are also fun to play with and help to teach the baby about water.

And even though my hinterland is rooted somewhere in the past — perhaps that is no bad thing — for to understand the past is to be somewhere close to grasping the present.

The good thing about your information is that it is explicit enough for students to grasp.

«The better we can grasp the diversity of microbes, the more we can go looking for things that are useful,» says Coleman.

One more thing Arnold grasped fairly quickly that posing wasn't simply for competitions, but it also contracted muscles to the max and made him stronger while lifting.

Some people have to stay on this step for a while before they get it, while others get a grasp of things pretty quickly.

Like anything else in our emotional drama arsenal, we often use our eyes to grasp for what we want, or avoid things we don't like, instead of simply resting with what is.