Sentences with phrase «make sense of these things for»

Yeah right, keep apologizing for absurdities and trying to make sense of things for which no sense can be made.

It can be extremely frustrating to try to make sense of these things for many customers of car insurance companies.

Better to focus, as Wilson suggests, on helping your readers by filtering and curating and making sense of things for them (and giving them tools to do that themselves), and building a relationship with them based on that, rather than nickel - and - dime - ing them for every little thing and forcing them to stay inside your walled garden.

Not exact matches

This is the first thing we talk about in Lean Startup because you can not do any of the techniques of Lean Startup — the rapid experimentation, the scientific approach, the broad development — none of it makes any sense and can't work unless you have a vision for what you are trying to accomplish.

If a manager understands what makes employees engaged the opportunity for personal growth, appreciation, belonging and a sense of providing value), making work and love the same thing is entirely possible.

It means driving the same car for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake of buying them.

These motion - tracking sensors will give a person «a stronger sense of being transported» to a virtual environment because they will presumably make it easier for people to move around and look at things in digital worlds like they do in real life.

One of the things that makes us feel weak as negotiators — and it's those of us who feel weak that are likely to go looking for advice — is the sense that the other side has more information than we do.

That flies against the «move fast and break things» ethos of Silicon Valley, but it makes sense for their business, says Ready - Campbell.

Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.

Mobile access can mean a variety of things in these days of tablets and smart phones, but for someone who wants to be able to access their live chat almost any time and from any location with Internet access, the best option is Website Alive, which at $ 29.95 a month for the first two operators also makes sound financial sense.

A crowdsourced delivery network for all kinds of things — not just groceries — makes sense for Instacart, another unicorn company, and one that's raised $ 274 million so far.

I hope I have instilled in each of you the values that have blessed me in this life and rewarded me with this extraordinary sense of accomplishment and a confidence that you can break rules and make things work for the better.

Right on the heels of The Wolverine, which topped its opening weekend box office, it makes sense to get the fanboys itching for the next big thing in the X-Men universe.

So instead of cramming their heads full of disparate facts, we need to give them the ability to explore things for themselves, take in new information, make sense of it and communicate what they've learned to others.

Fake follower counts are based on Points North scanning followers of influencers to sort out such things as accounts making comments in languages that don't make sense for the content or the influencer, or accounts making the exact same comments across multiple influencers and posts.

While it rarely — if ever — makes sense for investors to «put all of their eggs in one basket,» putting all your eggs in too many baskets may not be a good thing either.

I know Steve (and possibly most investors talk of keeping cash on hand for a «potential drop in the mkt and getting great value buys» sort of thing), which I agree makes a lot of sense.

(Musk slipped at least one reference to the book into the software of the Tesla Model S.) As a teenager, Vance writes in his biography, Musk formulated a mission statement for himself: «The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.»

The most sense you can possibly make of the stupid sh!t is: Big invisible and undetectable sky wizard chanted magic spells for six days to make the entire universe «perfect,» yet fragile enough that one twist of one woman's wrist threw the entire thing into nuclear meltdown (sin / corruption)---- oh yeah, and throw a talking snake in there, somewhere.

The Bible covers so many different literary genres though and is written for and by so many different people at different times, that it simply doesn't make sense to talk of the whole thing as an «instruction manual».

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

By what we see around us in the creation, for our Creator, made us to see in color, not just black and white, to have a series of senses that allow us to thoroughly enjoy life, such as the capacity to feel very minute things with our fingertips.

What we do has to make sense for the people of God in Chicago or New York or Springfield or wherever we are, in the late 20th century, with the themes of Pentecost VI or Advent I or whatever the occasion is, with all the resources that are available to us within the confines of our capabilities: old hymns, new hymns, music from various periods and of various styles, old translations, new translations, the same and different ways of doing things, etc..

This doctrine makes sense for her when we understand the power of sin under which we live as «the power of produced things which dominates humans».32 Such an understanding empowers and directs practice appropriately.

While that sort of thing is encouraging for some of us to hear, really they too need to go to the scripture to see what the witness is and whether the instruction makes sense.

It's why things make sense — the reason cause follows effect — the law of noncontradiction — the creative mind that accounts for why there is something rather than nothing.

And I really wish Christians would make up their minds about Jesus's place in the big scheme of things: is he a co-equal third of a trinity of ent.ities who somehow make up one large god, or is he a lesser god sent by his greater father god to suffer in order to straighten out the weird sin situation he created and didn't get around to fixing for thousands of years (the whole John 3:16 thing people are so fond of quoting only makes any sort of sense in the second situation).

It is realized in what makes our everyday life specifically human: in the patience that can wait, in the sense of humour which does not take things too seriously, in being prepared to let others be first, in the courage which always seeks for a way out of the difficulties.

Indeed, says Nishitani, the Japanese word for «learn» (narau) carries with it «the sense of «taking after» something, of making an effort to stand essentially in the same mode of beings as the thing one wishes to learn about» (p. 128).

I have respect for those that have this gift and appreciate their knowledge and certain way of explaining things that makes more sense than how I would have put it.

For one thing if Cod has created our minds as well as the rest of reality, then it makes sense to believe that God may communicate with us in nature as well as in Scripture, even if as «through a glass darkly.»

O when one beholds a man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat upon — when I see the same man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this man has understood what he says he has understood?»

«I write for myself because I've loved the craft since I was a kid, because it's how I process the world and make sense of things, and because I kinda suck at everything else so my professional options are limited.

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..

This may not make much sense to those of us who don't sacrifice other living things to atone for our sins.

If we put the biblical definition of faith into Hebrews 11:1, and say, «Trust is firm confidence in things hoped for,» the sentence makes perfect sense.

Irony, Wallace pointed out, is «almost exclusively negative» — useful, on occasion, for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.

Larson and Amundsen show that the Christian opposition to suicide makes sense in the context of a firm belief in God's sovereignty and the humble trust that God makes all things work together for good.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

Rather, the task is to find the necessary principles for making sense of the world, while at the same time it is clear that any principles which properly can be said to make sense of things will be those which are not in stark contradiction of all that realm of which, in fact, sense is being made.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 stars and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.»

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lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

What makes good sense with regard to «things,» namely their conception as a «society» of more fundamental Unities, is thus not called for with regard to the more highly developed forms of life if one does not want to run the risk of missing from the start what is distinctive of living things.

Once again, I am one of those abused, so as I already said, it absolutely makes sense for a survivor say angry, even abusive, things back — OR for a survivor to freak out and ask others to stop saying words that seem potentially abusive to them because they want to stop all abusive cycles (which is hardly described as «discomfort»).

The reasons for the lack of diversity in leadership are complex, but Henry says that proactively encouraging it can only be a positive thing: «The experience of the secular world confirms that diversity around the board table adds great value and makes sense.

Our age of irony has its dangers — irony can be useful for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.

When a believer bit.ches and moans about how if gay marriage is legalized, next is polygamy, in.cest and beastiality, (because for some reason all of those things are related) and we reject that because 1) beastiality is stupid because we're talking about two consenting adults 2) Polygamy is not really immoral but just incredibly tricky legally to design docu.ments that would make sense and 3) inc.est has some scientific ramifications and most of us can agree that as far as icky se.xual stuff goes, that ones a doozy.

For real systems, things are so involved that it makes little sense to talk of the details of the initiating fluctuation.