When it comes to beliefs
about human achievement, a fixed mindset is the belief that intelligence, for example, is almost entirely innate.
But we at the Competitive Enterprise Institute would rather keep the lights on and celebrate
Human Achievement Hour, because we recognize that living well is not a crime.
Coors Light recently decided to talk more about its beer and less about
human achievement as it seeks to reverse a sales slump.
Speaking at The Heritage Foundation's Happy Earth Day: Dispelling Environmental Myths and
Celebrating Human Achievement event, Milloy, at 36:03 states:
Which got me thinking about another
great human achievement, the Pyramids of Egypt, which, although arguable, were built from slave labour.
This admiration
for human achievement somewhat undermines Adam's intentions to kill himself with a wooden bullet obtained from his stoner human buddy Ian (Anton Yelchin in a Renfield - goes - Rock - n - Roll mode).
The professional climate change deniers at the Competitive Enterprise Institute counter-programmed it
with Human Achievement Hour.
And the sources of the most
profound human achievements seem thereafter bound up inextricably with the sources of human shame and misery.
The more than 75 years The Ford Foundation has worked hard to create social change worldwide as it follows its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, increase international cooperation, and
advance human achievement for those around the world.
Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity — reducing inequity is the
highest human achievement.»
Baptism expresses a profound pessimism about
human achievements because it shows forth a bold optimism in the achievement of God in Christ.
The higher possibilities of human purpose emerge only because of the importance that
previous human achievements have left to be appropriated.
The most crucial learning to be sought in such a situation is the recognition of the fundamental difference between human judgments and divine judgment: that
human achievements pass quickly while only the divine judgment is eternal and penetrates everything hidden.
Even as the bastions of
human achievement wrestle with their demons in The Aviator and The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese follows characters journeying toward infamy, while seeking to capture their humanity through a depiction of their very ordinary temptations, the betrayal and mistrust in the closest of relationships, their lawless codes of morality and, ultimately, their suffering.
Tinder, however, has no patience with those who use this gap
between human achievement and Christian hope as an excuse for inaction.
I had hoped in a consciously paradoxical formulation to point to the fact that
human achievement does not have the autonomy over against God that we are prone to attribute to it.
The modes of expression of this sense of «importance» or purpose are the areas of
human achievement Whitehead sets out in Modes of Thought: logic, morality, art and religion.
Yet the invisible God has elected to hold in abeyance his manifest rule; we can only stammer about that which words can not utter and work to accomplish that which is finally
beyond human achievement.
Given the greatly expanded resources at man's disposal, coupled with God's invariant aim at the maximum intensity and enrichment of experience, it is inevitable that the
ordinary human achievement will fall short of its originally intended goal.
A case in point is the terrorism events in the United States on 11 September: The invention of aircraft and devices to aid navigation are
remarkable human achievements, but they have been used for the destruction of human lives.
«Things like grit and 10,000 hours are mindsets that are very misleading because they are consequences not causes — they are lagging indicators of performance,» said Todd Rose, who is the author of The End of Average, a book that illustrates how averages are flawed in
understanding human achievement...
Levitated Mass stands not as a testament to
timeless human achievement but as a trophy for a certain class of real estate developers and corporatists for whom the message of power over nature and landscape has changed little since the time of their forebears Leland Stanford and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
«Her deepest desire was to share her creativity with the world and to encourage everyone to participate in what she believed was the highest
possible human achievement — art.
Not only has the objective world about him been modified
by human achievement; but the forms and attitudes of his mind which allow him to make sense of the objective world have been given him by culture.20
We degrade that miracle with our poisonous tweets and blogs and pornographies, but nonetheless, the word made visible is our most
profound human achievement.