In the latest exhibition of paintings and prints by 20th century American muralist and painter, Richard Haines, the gallery offers a new insight into the artist's
ideas of those things which endure.
Not exact matches
However, we should have a good
idea of which way
things are going by around 2.00 am, by
which time the results in Wandsworth and Westminster will have come in.
File this one under simple but powerful
ideas most people never think
of: «Draw all the
things you need to do on a big piece
of paper, and find out
which things depend on other
things.
Soon after her brilliant
idea hit the market, Oprah deemed it one
of her favorite
things which skyrocketed her sales.
And all these engineers at Facebook and Google and others are taking this deep learning concept with all these frameworks,
which is basically another word for tools, and turning these
ideas into
things of practical use.
Which is exactly the kind
of thing Buffett does so well, whether it's showing up at a football game in essentially a costume, playing a ukelele at the annual meeting, or explaining how he'd gotten his investment
idea by sitting naked in a bathtub.
Gordon and his wife have discussed the
idea of buying a safe house — something more secluded and modest than their current White Rock home — to
which they could escape when
things get bad.
While you will never be able to predict with total certainty
which of your
ideas are truly worthwhile, and
which are not, if you wait to ship, if you wait until something is perfect, if you never ship... one
thing is absolutely certain:
The hotel industry loves to fill rooms up with
things,
which comes from the
idea that a hotel room is an extension
of your home.
In the beginning, we had no
idea how to do certain
things, and we were trying a bunch
of stuff, some
of which didn't work.
We've covered the
idea here on Inc.com before, including write - ups
of research on how fast robots are replacing jobs and in
which sectors and an investigation into all the incredible
things robots are capable
of doing these days.
The most important
things are the strength
of your
idea, your will to get it done and the talent and commitment
of your people — all
of which you can find and foster wherever you wish to be.
«It was this
idea of the way this (user interface) worked that I think people were attracted to and that helped further it, and then massive marketing budgets,
which is the way a lot
of things happen.»
The first
thing I do for competitor research is to make a list
of all my competitors and put them through SimiarWeb in order to get a good
idea of which traffic channel (s) they are doing well in.
Lot
of entrepreneurs out there do not do the basic
thing of documenting, channelizing and strategicing great
idea which leads to disaster.
Because when you go to radical transparency, then people get to see
things for themselves,
which is, if they don't, they can't be part
of that
idea meritocracy, because it's not transparent.
This can be a useful
thing because a lot
of these
ideas are great, the people are usually smart, and it is another tool to search for potential
things in
which capital could be put to work.
In the case
of The Yard,
which launched in Brooklyn in 2011 and was one
of the original coworking spaces, the
idea has been to keep
things small, even as you're growing.
yo the
thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind
of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the
idea of it,
which would give life a sense right?
Similarly, those in the Church often have the
idea that true sanctity means waving bye - bye to the enjoyment
of life's good
things, and learning to love
things which are painful, boring, or painfully boring.
Even leaving out the
idea I was also taught, that removing oneself from the system was a laudable act
of counter-cultural liberation, with
which I still have some sympathy, to teach one's children oneself, being able to choose curricula and readings and customize the teaching to every child's needs and gifts, is the kind
of thing I was taught, by teachers
of impeccable liberalism, to praise.
Thus his poems,
which are ordered toward rendering the truth
of things as they are, are quite different from his prose,
which is governed by his consciously formulated
ideas about how
things ought to be.
Derived senses
of fruitful exchange,
of reciprocal sustenance,
of welcome offered,
of grasp and interrelationship,
of a slender span
of bilateral attention along
which things are given and received, still animate the word in its verb form: we entertain visitors, guests,
ideas, prospects, theories, doubts and grudges.
Stephen Barr criticizes me for confusing two very different
things: the modest scientific theory
of neo-Darwinism (
which he defines as «the
idea that the mainspring
of evolution is natural selection acting on random genetic variation») and what he calls the «theological» claim that evolution is an «unguided, unplanned» process.
The magnificent national memorial now built on the spot where the 168 people died senselessly is my
idea of the shape
of tenacious hope, and hope is the one
thing for
which there is no acceptable alternative.
Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind
of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are
things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions
of the prayperson (
which such challenges to
ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one
of them.»
The tribesman's
idea of mana or
of inherent «wonderful power» in
things and the various taboos
which apply to their use are an expression
of such a belief in the supernatural.
It was in this ardent zone
of growth and universal recasting that all that makes man what he is today was discovered — or at least must have been rediscovered, for even those
things which had long been known elsewhere achieved their definitive human value only when they were incorporated into the system
of European
ideas and activities.
Or is the human race an infallible one so that any
idea can be, move over should be, taken on faith
of its truth no matter the reality
of things and then acted on without concern
of the real truth
which was «WILLFULLY» overlooked?
One
thing I can say with certainty, is that you have no
idea which it is, so your story is not the «end
of story».
Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter, believes that «the Christian
idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized by the Cross, together with the doctrine
of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak
of God, p. 15 [University
of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication
of the «saving» quality in the process
of things which despite the evil that appears yet makes genuine advance a possibility.
Since these are the
things about
which ideas of being were first formed in philosophy, it is important that as we refine our
ideas we not divorce them from their place
of origin.
In the case
of religious teachers, the easy way out is often to teach
things of which we have no
idea, to give answers
which do not satisfy ourselves, speak
of things we have not heard, show
things we have not seen.
At a recent gathering hosted by The Samuel Bronfman Foundation,
which asked precisely that question, just about the only
thing the group
of leading Jewish scholars, writers, rabbis, and professors could agree on was that there is no longer one story, narrative, or
idea that could hold the totality or even a majority
of Jews together.
Bounded Sets and Centered Sets I ran into the same
idea in The Shaping
of Things to Come by Frost and Hirsch in
which they talked about Bounded Sets and Centered Sets.
There are the various and sundry concrete green
things: the abstract property at issue (viz., the property or characteristic
of being green); and the mediative conception or
idea of greenness
which is the thought - instrumentability through
which that abstract property comes to be imputed to those items that putatively manifest it.
5 In An Introduction to Mathematics (London: Williams and Norgate, 1911), p. 9, Whitehead writes: «The leading characteristic
of mathematics [is] that it deals with properties and
ideas which are applicable to
things just because they are
things, and apart from any particular feelings, or emotions, or sensations, in any way connected with them.
The
idea of community is heightened by that, and individuality is dropped,
which I think is a pretty good
thing.
It is this latter
idea, that the nature
of a particular
thing consists wholly in the universals
which it exemplifies (and therefore can not contain intrinsic reference to any other particular
thing),
which Whitehead sees as the ground for taking solipsism seriously.
Seneca explains to Lucilius that the
ideas of which Plato spoke were «what all visible
things were created from and what formed the pattern for all
things» (Letters 57:18, 19).
In the second chapter Whitehead introduces the
idea of a variable,
which is a letter that can refer to general
things of the world.
Thus it conceives the world
of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world
of immaterial
ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world
of mental activities or
of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in
which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.
I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism in
which Collingwood clearly states his conception
of the world
of nature: «Thus it conceives the world
of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world
of immaterial
ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world
of mental activities or
of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in
which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.
Whitehead then identifies the leading characteristic
of mathematics, not just
of arithmetic, as that subject
which «deals with properties and
ideas which are applicable to
things just because they are
things, and apart from any particular feelings, or emotions, or sensations, in any way connected with them» (IM 2 - 3).
The naive concept
of faith as blind assent arose from an equally naive and philosophically disreputable theory
of knowledge, according to
which one knows a
thing best by detaching oneself from its use and setting aside personal biases in order to form an
idea that corresponds to the
thing.
Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and feelings that arise: «The
ideas and issues
which excite me most are...;» «The
things that are most worth living for right now are...;» «I feel the most joy (pain, hope, lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I feel closest to (most distant from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs from my childhood
which no longer make sense are...;» «Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life
of our family, I'd like to..
If parishes begin to recover the
idea of a sung Mass, rather than a Mass at
which things are sung, that will be a great improvement to the celebration
of the Liturgy.
Although scholars
of the Revolution have disagreed on many
things, the past fifty years have witnessed strong agreement that one significant aspect
of the
ideas motivating the American Revolution was the Whig or Country party beliefs
which supported the Glorious Revolution and then resisted the growth
of monarchical power in the eighteenth century.
Yet in our time there is growing concern that our lives may be increasingly threatened by the role
of technology (tools, machines, gadgets) and technique (
ideas and skills
which enable men to control and manipulate both
things and people).
They should also admit that they have absolutely no
idea what God would actually want politically, as apparently he did not want equal rights for women and was fine with slavery, but politically those
things went away...
which most
of us consider a good
thing.