I have
great values of life and what it has to in store for me as time goes on.
Not exact matches
One
of the qualities employers most
value now is called grit — the fortitude, insight, and ability to adapt on the fly that often comes from overcoming adversity or disadvantage in
life, as Ellen McGirt explains in the feature «How Your Life Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.&ra
life, as Ellen McGirt explains in the feature «How Your
Life Experience Could Help You Land a Great Job.&ra
Life Experience Could Help You Land a
Great Job.»
«Normally, one
of the
great disadvantages
of investment - oriented
life insurance is that front - end commissions are so high that it takes a few years to start building up any type
of cash
value.
Managers today have unprecedented discretion in determining estimates
of an acquisition's fair market
value, but such calculations clearly warrant
greater scrutiny, since fully half
of all mergers and acquisitions consistently fail to
live up to expectations.
I like work flexibility because it allows to me to my best authentic self & be
of greater value to the people in my
life through better time management.
This
great book goes well beyond the field
of finance and into philosophy and
life values.
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And while most
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It also offers the potential to accumulate
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Richard:
Great insight as always, and last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms
of their
values, how they look at the economy and
life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms
of the housing market and the job situation.
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Once upon a time, there was a young man who got his dream job in the financial services industry, thought he could make it big one day and worked hard at it, then got disillusioned and disgusted by what he saw around, and finally quit to
live a
life of greater peace and fulfillment, while pursuing his passion in
value investing.
«The chanciness is part
of the lasting magic
of gay
life,» writes Browning, «a sort
of radical plot twist that characterizes queer
life and sets aside so many conventions
of social judgment, class, race, and attitude, supplanting them with a direct and naive faith that bonds
of great value can be forged on nothing more than instinct....
Say for example a patient in a remote location must undergo surgery without anesthesia, but with (for the sake
of argument) the assurance that he will prevent his own death by undergoing
great pains and also assuming that (for the sake
of argument) he
values his own
life over and above any pain he may experience in this
life.
In worship, art, architecture, literature, communal
life, language, beliefs, moral
values, models
of a virtuous
life, views
of the past, the persistence
of an aristocratic culture» in all
of these aspects
of life, a profound and far - reaching transformation
of the society was underway, and the book would have benefited from
greater attention to at least some
of them.
Her
life proclaims the
value of our smaller or
greater conversions to truth.
The eight criteria
of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds
life - affirming
values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation
of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense
of responsibility for the welfare
of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about
greater social justice.»
The True God requires and helps those needing recovery to go the «way» that has the
greatest «truth» and
greatest value to «
life» — the intent and purpose
of the law.
Lets partner in this
great commission, to touch, change and impact
lives towards the
values of Christ Jesus.
There are others who insist that human
life is
of no
greater value than any other form
of life, that all are equally to be respected.
The
values of community
life and creative work are destroyed for the sake
of the
greater wealth that can be produced when people behave in the manner
of Homo economicus.
Worse, Callahan supports the odious approach
of the UK rationing board NICE and the QALY system it imposes on the people
of the United Kingdom, a policy in which the young and able - bodied have
greater value than others based on «quality
of life» judgmentalism:
Just as Republicans may be accused
of ignoring their responsibility to the poor and oppressed, so you are guilty
of choosing to ignore the possibility that we may have a
greater responsibility to humankind — a responsibility to promote a culture
of life, instead
of death, a culture in which every human
life is
valued and allowed to reach its full potential.
The overvaluation
of productivity is so
great in our age that even truly productive men give up the roots
of a genuinely
lived life and wear themselves out turning all experience to
value as public communication.
Within that area a
great deal
of the real
value and experience
of human
life is located.
And by means
of the
living immediacy, the past is felt by God and as potent with possibilities
of greater value is passed back into and qualifies the world
of living experience.
In fact, some would say that there is no human
value or goodness unless this
value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure
of relations in our
lives (to a
greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.
A much
greater concern, however, is the moral flavor
of the school, the
values by which it
lives as well as those which it explicitly teaches.
A
great many
of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together
of human society as a sort
of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic
value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces
of Life.
This
value challenges every individual to strive for excellence in their
life and choose a
greater story, like perhaps one that stretches into eternity and joins God in the redemption
of all things.
It is a
great mistake to conclude that we thereby deprive it
of all
value and meaning.5 When man reaches the limits
of his empirical knowledge about himself and his world, he confesses his faith, or his response to
life, in the form
of myth and poetry.
We must recognize that in this context «adaptation» is strictly defined in terms
of survival
values and that, generally speaking, it is the simpler forms
of organization that possess the
greatest staying power:
living systems, no matter how fantastically intricate - and well organized they might be, have a much shorter span
of existence than, say, a rock crystal, or a single stable atom.34
Unfortunately, we've tended to ignore the
great hymns
of the faith and failed to recognize their inherent
value in our
lives.
His later works show him implacable to the whole system
of official
values: the ignobility
of fashionable
life; the infamies
of empire; the spuriousness
of the church, the vain conceit
of the professions; the meannesses and cruelties that go with
great success; and every other pompous crime and lying institution
of this world.
Perhaps by demonstrating
greater love and care to those around us, particularly those within our own family and especially those who are unwell or marginalised within society; by reaching out to those who are struggling in
life, in need
of comfort or support — and by
valuing them all as human beings — then we can all indeed be true disciples
of Christ on earth.
Definitions and explanations will often be
of the
greatest value, but they will never exhaust the meaning
of the realities within the
life of the church to which these terms refer nor will they render the terms themselves unnecessary.
«I have fallen on my knees with
great regularity since that moment — asking God for guidance not just in my personal
life and my Christian walk, but in the
life of this nation and in the
values that hold us together and keep us strong,» he said.
They might not agree that this new
life had any
great significance or
value or that it embodied any peculiarly important truth, but the uniqueness
of its spiritual quality they would not fail to recognize.
With regard to Callahan's comparison
of the
lives of PVS patients with the
lives of «fertilized eggs,» I would simply note that once an egg has been fertilized it is no longer an egg but a new
living being, and in the case
of the human species, a new human being — surely a being
of incomparably
greater value than an «egg.»
In their interpretation
of the second
of the eight points they write that this entails «the refusal to acknowledge that some
life forms have
greater or lesser intrinsic
value than others» (71).
The biographies, basic and concise, provide lesser - known and engaging elements
of each saint's
life, though they serve primarily as narrative devices that possess
greater value for Campbell than for her readers.
There is within
life an Eros toward the realization
of greater, rather than lesser,
values.
To be the only chaplain in a 170 - bed hospital filled with a
great number
of people who are quadraplegic; to try to help these people rediscover and / or redefine a
life value and quality that they often feel has been lost; to grow to care greatly about these people; to do all these things and yet deep, deep inside, to feel that you would rather be dead than be quadraplegic — that's hard to admit.
Middle - class people are enforcing
values they themselves now
live by, as if they were not in fact a
great cause
of the social pathologies
of the middle class.
While
life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness are valuable human ideals in themselves, they are by no means «God - given rights,» are not guaranteed in Scripture, and when such
values are divorced from the understanding that we will answer to God, these rights become some
of the
greatest instruments
of death, enslavement, and sadness the world has ever seen.
This sounds good from the perspective
of modern Christianity David, but couldn't it also be the case that in the primitive polytheistic world
of the author, they felt that worshiping «their god», and «only their god» was
of greater value than even human
life?
The heart
of all real religions is an affirmation that human
life on this planet is only part
of something very much
greater; that «human
values» are determined by an authority higher than human beings themselves; and that man neither finds happiness nor discovers his true self until his worship, his loyalty and his love are given to Someone infinitely
greater than any man or group
of men.
Though the converts
of the
Great Awakening were committed to the same central grouping
of values and symbols as were the Puritans, they tended to hold these with a degree
of absoluteness which made them highly critical
of the elite in society who symbolized those
values but did not
live them fully and completely.
But a far
greater happiness for all may be envisioned in God's nearer presence and fellowship with those we love, the preservation
of all that is best and finest in the
values knit into the self in one's earth
life, work to do for others and growth in grace, knowledge, and love.
The Church has a responsibility to make sure its response demonstrates love, compassion, and
great value to the one whose
life has been eviscerated by the pains
of abuse.