Sentences with phrase «know people and their culture»

I love taking time to get to know people and their culture.

Looking to get to know the people and culture!

I love traveling, knowing people and cultures and i love to be happy with people around me..

Costa Rica is an excellent choice to learn Spanish, get to know the people and the culture of Latin America and enjoy an unforgettable vacation, all on the same trip.

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Our people know the culture and know the market,» he says.

By the time Powell was elected CEO of General Mills in 2007, he really knew the company — the organization, its people, products, customers and culture.

They want to know you as a person and understand whether you are going to fit into their corporate culture.

There's also entrepreneur, inventor and head of X (formerly known as Google X) Astro Teller's talk, «The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure,» where he explains how X has built a comfortable culture where people aren't afraid to take risks and try new things.

To me, a transparent culture is one where employees are given meaningful insights that build trust with senior leadership and an environment exists where people can give honest and direct feedback, knowing it will be heard and shared with the right people.

«We know people come to Monaco for the sea and the sun, but we want them also to know that we are committed to culture and, in particular, to art,» Paul Masseron, the principality's minister of the interior, told The New York Times.

As a person who implements software, it helps me in advance to know the culture and personalities of the people I'll be intimately working with so I know whether or not to include a bottle — or three — of Jack Daniels in my budget.

[When you] start to make a habit of realizing that formal leadership isn't the same thing as running a discussion, you make it easier to have a culture where people can speak up and, if they know something relevant, take the lead.»

But, if you hesitated on answering any of these culture fit type questions, and questioned whether you would truly enjoy working with this person, then just say no.

«If your employees are engaged and care about the company and its culture, and feel like they know what's happening», says Fradin, «then they become an advocate for the company — recruiting other people, talking positively about it, writing a review on Glassdoor.

We know you're very sorry about creating a culture that for decades has demeaned and excluded both women and people of color.

At the heart of Peter's leadership expertise is his success in leading teams and ensuring that a «people first» culture thrives at Purdys Chocolatier, while customers know Purdys for the highest quality chocolate and the highest quality service.

«At CIBC the culture was that when somebody becomes the CEO they want to have the people who they know and trust and the ones who helped them achieve their goals.»

Even if your company has a strong mission, a learning culture with smart people to learn from and lots of growth opportunities, it's very difficult to know what it's like to work there by reading your job listing and looking at your marketing website.

While working in an industry not known for positive work cultures (call centers), Paul and his brothers focused on creating an environment in which people loved what they did every day, and lived by a set of core values that everyone respected.

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«You want to engender an environment in which people will be open, and not feel that they are being intolerable and shut up, so they created a culture in which everyone knows how to be constructive.

After having been in a couple relationships with people whose second (or third) language is English, and knowing what I do now, I have a lot of empathy for what people are going through as they adjust to new words, new cultures, and new everything.

At least in my own experience, as I have gotten to know people different from me, it's given me an appreciation and / or understanding for what they go through, or their culture, perspective, etc..

I know that this upsets some, but the reality is that we are repeating Vietnam, and the people are fighting for the right to have their society, culture, and religion.

However, in meeting and dealing with people from all over the world, I also know that I must RESPECT their culture.

when you live in America, knowing that the culture here is very superficial and most things are based on looks (and not just here but other countries as well) you can't be surprised that people will find a fully bearded woman strange.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

In the graciousness of the book (something often lacking when people engage Emergent, no names but...), in its passionate for the Scriptures, in its understanding that true faith shows itself in love, in its acceptance of the many things postmodernism has going for it without capitulating to todays culture, and especially in the willingness to both take on and unite both sides, Wittmer has written something here to be commended for, and something that all believers no matter what side they lean toward would do well to read.

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

John Senior, in The Restoration of Christian Culture, explains the phrase this way — «the lover is the only one who really sees the truth about a person... we can only love what we know because we have first touched, tasted, smelled, heard and seen.»

This happens because delusional beliefs are tied to a person's culture and what they know, and we live in a religious society, he explained.

No doubt there have been and are many people who have come to America simply to transplant their existing culture onto new soil — in fact, you can make the argument that that was how America was founded in the first place.

The sum of the treasures of knowledge and culture has increased to such a degree that the individual in the time available in one lifetime can no longer have any direct contact with the whole of the benefits of civilization available nowadays and which are in fact known and enjoyed by one person or another.

Furthermore, this culture war has presented people like Justin, and people like Cindy — a mom who contacted Justin in a panic after learning her son was gay, knowing that her church was the last place she could turn if she wanted her son to feel loved and supported — with a dangerous false dichotomy: It's gays vs. Christians.

Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

As they ask questions they are taking in the responses and reconciling them with what they know to be true, often times helping people to find a true north in a culture full of relatives, toxicity and low standards.

Central and eastern Europe didn't break free of the shackles of totalitarianism without trying, failing, and then trying again: It took a critical mass of people, determined to «live in the truth» no matter how difficult, to implode the communist culture of the lie and give a new birth of freedom to the lands Stalin claimed as his prize for helping beat Hitler.

Additionally, it has been well documented that a monotheistic conception of ultimate reality is indigenous to almost all of traditional African culture, and that it is highly probable that traditional African theism, like Judeo - Christian and Islamic theism, has its historical genesis in the monotheism of a black pharaoh of ancient Egypt — Iknaton ---- who was the first person known to have popularized the religious conviction that there is one, and only one, god.

Sam, You, of all the people I know, show how to be Jesus in and through the customs and holidays of our culture and neighborhood.

Pragmatically, it had great strength: people knew where they stood, but it was also very brittle, and tended to lead to culture of making a virtue out of harshness.

In hindsight we see that if the gospel had not been preached in terms of Hellenistic culture, it would not have won the minds and hearts of most of the people in the then - known world.

Jesus was attacked as the Seal Prophet was attacked by the pagan and the jews of Mecca for bringing that does not agree with the culture and customs they wanted to live with such as freeing slaves, forbidding the drinking of spirits and all that was mentioned and known about the people Mucca doing before any signs of Islam!

Cardinal Pell did not specify who those people are or their alternative suggestions, but my mind turned to those theologians known as «correlationists» who for several decades have been trying to «correlate» and «accommodate» the Catholic faith to trends within secular culture.

No, because the end justify s the means and you have already made up your mind that you are right about Jesus and there can be no other truth, and it's never about learning more about different people and cultures and religions, it's about making sure anyone who is different knows you are a Christian which is the only sensible way to live and anyone who is not like you is either converted, attacked, pitied or dismissed as a fool who awaits eternal damnation.

In those cultures where polygamy was common it was not always the consensual agreement many would like to believe and if you know people who grew up in those households you can here some serious stories of strife.

I know some people are going to go apoplectic about «moral equivalency», but my point is to show that we are not always objective in evaluating leaders in other cultures, places and times.

Partly because the Bible was not allowed to be read and studied by the average person, the church and culture entered into what is now known as the Dark Ages.

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.