Sentences with phrase «knowing things rather»

One other issue issue is that video games are normally serious in nature with the primary focus on knowing things rather than amusement.

It seeks to know him as we know a thing rather than as we know other people.

Not exact matches

Raaja Nemani, CEO and co-founder, knows that when you are starting out that you can't focus on too many things at once but rather do one thing really well.

Raaja Nemani, CEO and co-founder of Bucketfeet, knows that when you are starting out that you can't focus on too many things at once but rather do one thing really well.

Even when you know to focus on the specific things you achieved here — rather than your job description, goals, or responsibilities — you need to write in a way that tells your future boss how you'll achieve in another job entirely — the one you want him or her to consider you for.

I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

Well, now we know that Theodor Geisel's (that's another thing — no «e» at the end of his first name) pen name — which was his mother's maiden name — was actually pronounced to rhyme with «voice» rather than «moose.»»

As a CEO, it's important to know when to step back and ensure the team works together to figure things out, rather than hold everyone's hands as they sort through their differences.

It is good for the investing public to know that the company is making decisions about things like dividends with the best interests of shareholders in mind, rather than the best interests of the CEO.

As stage magicians and confidence men know, our brains have a tendency to «make up their minds before we do» — see things as we think they should be, rather than as they are.

No, not the list of things you want to do before you die, rather, the activities you feel will kill you if you do them any longer!

HERERA: What — you know, if you «re waiting to the last minute, sometimes you may not have the time or you may not know where to look for some things that really could put you at an advantage rather than the disadvantage.

She has also been a strong voice for cooperation among progressive parties rather than for continued competition that mainly serves the interests of the Right (yes, yes, I know the argument that having many choices on your ballot is supposed to be a good thing, but the outcomes of Alberta elections suggest that in fact for progressives, it's just the opposite).

Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?

Best known is his depiction of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on self»: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.

No, not because of the afflicted souls who haunt his verse, or because of the despairs and demons of the dark night of the soul that lace The Sleep of Reason, but rather because he thinks that we won't acknowledge these things sufficiently.

Since the story as seems to be bigger than just «Osama being used and abused» but it was always every crime made by inelegance or the crime world was tagged to him being behind it... even those who wanted to collect the insurance of their buildings the blew them up and tagged it to the late, even those who enjoyed the fluctuations of shares prices have made their moves to effect the same and tagging it to the late... It is not that i know but rather being every thing is possible to fabricate... What ever the case might be or made done, we say; Believers: The Ultimate Victors [2:216] Fighting may be imposed on you, even though you dislike it.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

No, Martin's questions would not be these things that we still hang on to finding ourselves engulf in complacency because doing nothing is far more easier than doing something desirable; rather wanting to be under achievers.

God's promised fulfillment includes, among other things, the image of a New Jerusalem where «death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away» (Rev. 21:4) As we begin to engage in the business of genetic co-creation, how can we be sure that our path goes toward this fulfillment rather than toward some irreversible destruction?

Though we may not always understand why and how sin and suffering enters into God's world, one thing we can know through the crucifixion of Jesus is that God does not send sin and suffering, but rather, is a victim of it along with us.

These are more than cliche - swaggering words to me, this is the raw begging in my veins: I have done things I would rather die a thousand deaths than for even one person to ever know.

Such experience no longer regards purely particular things as do the senses, but rather through intuition finds the universal genus behind them all — indeed, experience is «the universal now stabilized within the soul,» according to Aristotle in Posterior Analytics.

Thanks to the internet things are not as hidden as they use to be, but there are still those that would rather suppress our freedoms to know what goes on in the real world.

Next, the soul gives us real intelligence — the ability to know the truth and value of things absolutely rather than just in terms of their pragmatic use for ourselves.

The thing is the only facts ever established regarding the certified validity of a deity let alone what that deity does is that there is nothing proven that there is a deity AND there is also nothing proving that there is no deity who does not want to be made known but would rather have us development our own faith in said deity.

If you consider the fact that noone knows who you are on the internet, you begin to understand why people say things simply because they can rather than because they truely believe what they say.

However, I suspect that in many cases church relationships have become predominantly horizontal; that is, we no longer see our connection to the local church as based in Christ, but rather upon any number of extrinsic elements. The invisible, universal Church is one thing; the local church is quite another.

I therefore was not hired at Notre Dame to be a «Protestant theologian» (which is a good thing, since I would not have known how to play that role), but rather I was invited to participate in the continuing post-Vatican II struggle to determine the proper stance of the Christian in this strange society.

It just takes the honest admission that «There are thing the human race doesn't know and can't explain yet,» and rather responding with «But we're working hard to figure out the things we don't know,» comes up with a lot of baseless, convoluted, assertions of knowledge.

In any event, it is no little thing to know what people say about themselves, even if they are, at least in part, describing who they want to be rather than who they actually are.

But the acquisition of such things is not Byrne's chief interest; rather, he wants to know what the acquirers do next, that is, what happens when you get what you want.

You're going to hear things you'd rather not hear and learn things you'd rather not know.

My imaginations could not let me think past few things I read and know about God but in an attempt to invent God I would rather put the play this way; putting a light bulb on a center of table with little particles of crystals scatter all around the light bulb that the light shine so bright it reflects the crystals scattered on the table.

Furthermore, it could also be argued that when Paul says the natural man «does not» receive the things of the Spirit of God, «nor can he know them,» he is not referring to an inherent inability to do so, but rather to an antagonistic mindset that refuses to seek the truth and understand these things.

In the context of the conventions of Western perspective Watanabe's depiction of the table and its contents is symbolic of things as he knows them rather than representative of things as he sees them.

What they did not know is that this was not the story they were made to believe... but was rather a broke hulk was all rapped up in protocols and agreements that froze their move and had to plan and allow the happening of some thing big that would allow it break the chains wrapped up with to do what it had done for the last decade...!?

In her view, the labels we use do not express, but rather distort, the most important things we can know and say about our own sexuality and human sexuality in general.

Only I - Thou sees this wholeness as the whole person in unreasoned relation with what is over against him rather than as a sum of parts, some of which are labeled objective and hence oriented around the thing known and some subjective and hence oriented around the knower.

In my view, the labels we use do not express, but rather distort, the most important things we can know and say about our own sexuality and human sexuality in general.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

Real Christians Hate Religion... Real Christians Hate Hypocrites... Real Christians should be more like Christ... How could you claim to be a Christian if you don't even know your Christ... The reason why doomed people would never understand Christ is because they never tried to search for the Truth... They only listen to such rubbish things rather than the Truth... Read and do more and Talk less... It doesn't take a genius to know that Someone created you rather than you coming to life with just atoms randomly hitting each other... If you're really smart, think about it... Stop the non-sense talk about God and Science and find it out for yourself...

I don't know if I could boil it down to one thing said or done, but rather a couple of surprising salient points I didn't recognize until my sexual orientation became a public conversation.

It involves, not belief in the sense of personal opinions, but rather a set of actions (saying certain things, going to services, doing good works, etc.) that can be done in the absence of belief — indeed the nature of a wager makes it such that you fully admit you don't know, which is actually an agnostic atti.tude toward the idea of God's existence.

He alone knows, through God, the destiny of all things, or rather where God will bring all things.

You may call this a rather chastened optimism; I know of no other which is truly Christian, for the confidence of the Christian man is not set on the evolution of a perfect society, here in our secular world, but «on things above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.»

Now, in an age where we can no longer hide from things we might rather not know about the artists we follow, that choice involves even more complex factors.

It does not appeal to experience, which of all ludicrous things is the most ludicrous, and which so far from making a man wise rather makes him mad if he knows nothing higher than this.

I want you to know that I sense a very keenmind here, but to me you seem to use it to prod people rather than resolve things.

«It makes you wonder like, «If you know a certain song is going to do better because it says a certain thing, but you kind of would rather say it a different way, but you're going to say it this way because you know it's going to do better, what does that do to our spirituality?»