Sentences with phrase «less important people»

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«People are now saying that less travel is important to them,» he says.

RelSci says it already has three million - plus people in its database, but that number is less important than expanding the number and quality of links among them.

But just pulling people together in a room is often less important than what they were doing on their own.

Living next to the U.S. has already made Canadians «a less exuberant people,» he says, and it's more important than ever to develop a sense of national identity in this time of rapid globalization.

Vaynerchuk admits that he's «betting on the jockey a lot of times»; in other words, the product itself is less important than the person who pitched it.

This is important because hearing other people's stories makes us less western - centric.

A mentor to the likes of Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, John Doerr, and Larry Page, he also was a mentor to countless of other less important and powerful people, including me.

Another reason analysts consider the January effect less important as of 2016 is that more people are using tax - sheltered retirement plans and therefore have no reason to sell at the end of the year for a tax loss.

Smaller companies have much less bureaucratic red tape, and the ability of one person to see his or her idea put into action has an important motivating effect.

Along with the international push, Reid emphasizes another goal as being particularly important to Alexa's future: making the service feel less like a robot and more like a person.

No less important, for all the moaning about «steep» financing costs, there are a lot of people who will do well with today's rates.

«In field after field, when it comes to centrally important skills — stockbrokers recommending stocks, parole officers predicting recidivism, college admissions officials judging applicants — people with lots of experience were no better at their jobs than those with less experience.»

«The Hispanic community, however, is not immune from the nation's growing secularism, which concerns all religions, as church attendance seems less important to people,» Walsh continued, «and people move from religion to religion and declare themselves spiritual rather than religiously affiliated.»

«In this digital age, it's now more important than ever that we talk openly about body image, so that young people can feel comfortable in their skin and have one less thing to worry about when they are going through puberty, which is already one of the most difficult stages of their life.»

I believe that its important to see inner wisdom and the council of friends and wise and knowledgeable people... but God, if he / she exists created us — right... oh yes w / brains... we should be honoring that by using them... I can imagine if God exists every day he is saying to himself / herself «why do people keep asking me for things I have not control over, or really could care less about (people are asking for a new shinny house to replace their perfectly fine house while millions are homeless around the world, hungry, sick, etc.)... why are they not using the gifts and skills they have».

This is an important point, for, while we have often taught what is wrong with homosexuality, why it is a disorder and that «gay sex» is always morally wrong - we have been less effective at proposing the whole, positive vision of sex and love, and also what paths to fulfilment are open to people who experience same - sex attraction.

From this perspective, God would not be a cosmic Person who relates first and foremost to people and who also, in some less important way, also relates to nonhuman organisms.

even cancer and people like hitler (yeah, yeah, free - will - his victims» free will was obviously less important to god than hitler's).

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

Such authentic sayings, whose exact wording can not well be reconstructed, whose translation is uncertain, whose out - of - date thought patterns are obvious, are none the less more important historical sources for encountering Jesus» history and person than would be the chronological and psychological material the original quest sought in vain.

The attempt of behaviouristic psychology, for example, to externalize reality into pure action - response not only denies the reality of the participating subjective consciousness but, equally important, the reality of personality as a more or less integral whole and the reality of the relations between persons as that which calls the personality into existence.

This means that the doctrine of Jesus» person is not less important to us than it was to the early church.

It is therefore important to distinguish between those theologians who are interested in post-modern culture because they want to better understand its effects upon the human person's openness to evangelisation, and those theologians who think that Christ should be just another option at the market of meaningful symbols, no more or less significant than Buddha or Krishna.

When society supports the terminally ill in committing suicide — by not engaging in suicide prevention for them as we do for other categories of suicidal people, and by legalizing access to lethal means — it sends the insidious message that the lives of the dying are less important and less worth protecting than are those of the healthy, and even that their families (and society) may be better off if they die sooner rather than later.

... the most important social task of Christians is to be nothing less than a community capable of forming people with virtues sufficient to witness to God's truth in the world.

Just as among enduring objects the uniting characteristic may be more or less important, so also with living persons or souls.

In addition, not that many people are affected by the lie — less than five percent of the population — so it's not important enough to endanger Obama care.

When disaster strikes, we suddenly interrupt our hectic busyness and our preoccupation with less important things and turn to what really matters most — the people we love and who love us.

«In other words, what the president believes may be less important to the American people than whether the president is a believer.»

The important fact is that while recent news reports of declining marriage rates among young people 25 to 34 have focused on the recession as an explanation, marriage rates over the past thirty years have been declining, through boom and bust alike, especially among less - educated Americans.

In God's eyes, I reminded myself, the death of each of these nameless people is no less important than my own death or those of my loved ones, or the death of Jesus.

Because a billboard isn't all sunny and positive people become emotionally bent out of shape and the truth is less and less important.

One of the ways in which the dread fact of death has been made less important, for a great many people at any rate, has been by talk about «life after death».

Further, the less some feature important to a person's identity is esteemed and possessed the less that person is likely to fulfil himself or herself.

In fact, the role of the family loomed so important with most of the respondents that, as Dr. Albert Solnit of Yale's Child Study Center put it, people cherish their families and family history «even when their experience has been less than perfect.»

While many people might not want to consume this amount of crimini mushrooms on a daily basis, we suspect that less frequent consumption would also have resulted in important antioxidant benefits, although probably not as extensive as the benefits demonstrated in this study.

Which, really, I would be going for anyway even without a gift certificate, since I can't reach my toes, and have a thing about people (yes, even doctors and nurses who couldn't care less and are looking at a whole lot more important and less pretty parts of me than my toes) seeing my feet looking gnarly, but, you know, it's the thought....

Just because he doesn't crunch people his defensive input is no less important.

People then say well «they were all important goals against big teams» again a boll ** ks myth — if they were they must be under performing against the lesser teams.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

The only reason people assume hospital births are less risky, is because of the short - sighted viewpoint that doesn't include the baby and mother's future health, emotional connection and self esteem as important enough to be parameters of safety.

That kind of heartless behavior you and the majority of moms here scares me... yout lack of empathy for a life you say you used to love makes me wonder how you would act towards a person that for some reason turns out to be less important to you.

«Being rather shy and reticent, one important thing I've learned since starting to sell my own work is to be less scared of contacting new people.

The more people you allow to help through this hard time, the more secure your child will be, and the less stress you will go through.Though it is important to help your child through grieving, don't forget you need to care for yourself.

For example, maybe it's really important to you to avoid products rated badly for «Animal Testing» or «People», but you care less about «Politics»:

There's also something extremely offensive about this statement, as though the person is minimizing your feelings and writing off what you've told them as less important.

While some of the other answers and comments have some good points about people supporting meritocracy and similar ideas, I believe that the most important answer has less to do with individual voter's ideologies, and more to do with the voting system.

As such, if 100 % of campaign money raised was spent as part of the federal budget, it would cover less that 0.1 % (1 / 1000th) of said budget, even if we only cover «important spending on the people» and not entire budget.

Dr Kuhn argues that empirically that there has been no increase in pro-European feeing despite the wealth of such transactions, and that Deutsch's theory needs three important qualifications: first, benefits of cross-border transaction may be identifiable individually but are characterised by high social stratification; second, not all forms of European interaction are effective in fostering common identity; and third, in some cases people react negatively and actually become more nationalistic and less European.

The technology is far less important than what you're asking people to do — vote themselves, and get other people to vote.»