Sentences with phrase «greatest human achievement»

Which got me thinking about another great human achievement, the Pyramids of Egypt, which, although arguable, were built from slave labour.

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It's a great way to get people comfortable with recognizing their own achievement, hearing how they've positively impacted others, and connecting on a more human level.

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

For what exhilarates us human creatures more than freedom, more than the glory of achievement, is the joy of finding and surrendering to a Beauty greater than man, the rapture of being possessed.

The natural sciences represent one of the greatest intellectual achievements of the human race.

Because the order created by human achievements is greater insofar as each individual benefits from and contributes to it, our comprehensive telos prescribes pursuit of everyone's emancipation.

The Enlightenment was the first episode of a movement that constitutes one of the greatest achievements of the human spirit.

Yet we share something with the Greeks every time we assemble for this great athletic contest: a desire to transcend the politics of the moment and reach beyond the ordinary limits of human achievement.

«Human pride is greatest when it is based upon solid achievements; but the achievements are never great enough to justify its pretensions.»

This refers not only to other historic religions, which also produce high fruits of human achievement — whether or not in as great numbers or with as much efficiency as Christianity we are not concerned to say at this point but to movements and influences not ordinarily called religious.

There you have it: the elders offering final counsel to the successor generation, the beneficiaries of the greatest educational system in the world, the bearers of civilization's legacy across new frontiers of human aspiration and achievement.

What is unshakeable is that God in his great wisdom has put us all here and I believe that as human beings our greatest achievement will be to truly love and respect one another regardless of race, gender, appearance, faith or lack of faith.

Using a graphic image, he concludes, «the normal human reaction to a great cultural achievement like the Bible is to do with it what the Philistines did to Samson: reduce it to impotence, then lock it in a mill to grind our aggressions and prejudices» (p. 233).

One of the greatest achievements in human history.

If anything the evidence indicates that the great cognitive achievement in human evolution was cortical plasticity, which allows for rapidly adaptive changes to the environment, both across evolutionary time and [across] individual lifetimes.

Anybody who does is going to enjoy it and will value the insights it offers into the technical and human struggle behind one of the greatest achievement in physics.

Over years of human development, buildings have become some of mankind's greatest achievements.

As Oppenheimer himself remarked, «Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.»

«In human evolution the great achievement is the brain, in birds it is the feathers,» lead author Cheng - Ming Choung, a professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, told the BBC.

Wouldn't it be a great achievement if the anthropocene, the age of human dominance on Earth, goes down in history as an era of rethinking and changing behaviour?»

«Schindler's List» is a must - see masterpiece, a great achievement in filmmaking as well as an overwhelming look at how good, bad or ugly human nature can get.

The ability to send a human into space and return him to Earth safely is arguably one of mankind's greatest achievements.

This is a great achievement in terms of protecting vulnerable populations, in terms of human rights education and action, as well as the development of the ever improving human rights legal instruments and implementations procedures.

From recruitment to retention, employing great educators plays a larger role in student achievement than any other decision school districts make, and TalentEdge is designed to support the human resources, absence management, professional development and administration officials who facilitate the talent life cycle to empower K - 12 education.

Research shows that our happiness as human beings leads to greater success and higher achievement (Lyumbomirsky, King, & Diner, 2005).

The greatest vehicular achievement in human history, if some are to be listened to and the trophy case is to be accounted for.

Calculated risk lies at the heart of every achiever and great achievement throughout human history.

Louis Beryl, Earnest's CEO and co-founder, expressed the thought that it would have been great if human's personal achievements resulted in money gains.

Danni's greatest achievements remain her human son Dylan, and canine daughters Jersey and Lola.

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Family planning, one of the greatest public health achievements in human history, allows individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births.

In order to join the Council of Europe, a European state must first sign and ratify the European Convention on Human Rights, thus confirming its commitments to the aims of the Organization, namely the achievement of greater unity between its members based on human rights and fundamental freedoms, peace and respect for democracy and the rule ofHuman Rights, thus confirming its commitments to the aims of the Organization, namely the achievement of greater unity between its members based on human rights and fundamental freedoms, peace and respect for democracy and the rule ofhuman rights and fundamental freedoms, peace and respect for democracy and the rule of law.

Put your greatest achievements or skills you're best at in bold because a human eye subconsciously focuses on highlighted text.

My client's resume had a ton of great achievements, but it was lost to the human reader.

As humans our greatest achievement as a species is the ability to create community.