Sentences with phrase «mean by a good person»

What do we mean by a good person and the good life?

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There are two primary ways to get your message out there: One is by marketing, meaning getting your name out to people by writing blogs and guest blogs for industry publications, as well as press releases to get journalists and reporters to work you into their stories.

By that, I mean people with two good jobs, who are often educated professionals, who earn significant household income — and yet are filing insolvencies.

Leaders who master the practice of good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story by searching conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up with the right solution.

«By recognizing and rewarding entrepreneurial pursuits, we're encouraging young people to use entrepreneurship as a means to a better future for themselves and all of society.»

The toys were sent by thousands of well - meaning people.

If you naturally come alive at night and feel like a zombie before midmorning no matter what you do, you've no doubt spent most of your life being nagged by well - meaning parents, teachers, and advice peddlers to mend your ways and become a morning person.

Ultimately, entrepreneurs are best served by trusting their own instincts — even if it means quietly ignoring the very person funding your company.

But the decision to prosecute people for their lies is a matter of judgment, and it is by no means clear that the relevant officials have always exercised good sense.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

One of the features of bitcoin people find enticing — by no means the only one to be sure — is the fact that its supply is strictly limited (well, sort of — see our comment on «forks» further below).

«The topic at hand today, and over the next seven months, is how to build a better, more progressive, future for this province — that means broadly shared and greener prosperity within a renewed democracy powered by people, not corroded by big money.»

As such, cryptocurrency allows people a means to generate income that is not battered by regional inflation as well as the ability to use any accumulated earnings to enter higher education in an effort to improve their lives.

Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.

It only makes it all the more urgent for young people to be told the truth that sexual promiscuity, whether homosexual or heterosexual, may endanger their lives, that condoms are by no means a foolproof way to avoid that risk, and that chastity is the best defense.

The temptation to believe that we are the Viceregent of the Almighty, charged with the thunderbolt of heaven, for the punishment of evil - doers, is one of the subtle temptations by which the Evil One lures well - meaning people to embark upon a course of policy which soon becomes indistinguishable from buccaneering pure and simple.

In theory, it is possible to be led astray by a person who, well meaning and apparently upright in his ways, told you, nevertheless, to go down the wrong and destructive path.

Well meaning article but limited by the effect that these are self - selecting people she sees.

and by that i mean the clergymen, not the author of the article, i believe in the good faith you good people have with the loss of your loved ones... god bless

Well seeing as only 33 % of people on this planet believe in your version of a god, that means 4.6 billion people (and counting) are going to be burned in hell by your god.

Here's the thing — you can find any number of Stepford-esque church members who will attest that they and the folks they know are «just good people», etc. (and I, too, know many very pleasant and admirable Mormons), but that doesn't address the creepy facts related to the administration of the overall organization (which is by no means a true non-profit, BTW).

by the way, how did the people in the new testament know that things would get worse and not better, I mean come on... were are educated now!

This means that God is working through you and through other good people, who are outraged by the actions of these evil priests.

In Church, because we're all Christian and because we want to be nice to people, we let well - meaning people do the wrong jobs and therefore we do God a disservice by not presenting his incredibleness in the best possible way.

I love all those things and I'm often informed by well - meaning people that if I were honest with myself I'd realize I'm ambitiously and greedily going after those things.

Well - meaning efforts to draw the tribal peoples into the economy of the new country are experienced by these peoples as a threat to their very identity.

Most of us are shocked by the negative affects we have on people when we meant well.

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

«There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do;....

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

But the Bible asks us to have the courage displayed by the people of Israel — the courage of people who know full well what it means to be carnivores and yet who dream of a day — past and future — when lions will eat hay.

In today's divided moral landscape, with thoughtful, well - meaning people on both sides of every issue, there's no better way to show that you're a serious thinker than by acknowledging that every controversial issue is «complex.»

Hauerwas insists that the first task of the church is not to make the world more just, but to make the world the world — by which he means that the best favor the church can do for the world is to live as a different sort of people, and thereby at least offer the world something interesting in which not to believe,

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

Rex i do nt disagree that the Lord is returning i am looking forward to that nor about John the baptist but i am saved i think it is dangerous to tell people they are not saved by a few comments you do nt agree with.whether you know the word well or go to church or even do good works is no guarantee that you are saved that just means you are religious.It is only by faith in Jesus Christ that all are saved and not by works brentnz

Introspection means talking to yourself, and one of the best ways of talking to yourself is by talking to another person.

Also I'm most of the time very good at judging others to some kind of standard that I expect people to live by, meaning I want to put them into religion or at least have some kind of control over them.

As we affirm in the Christian Principles of Communication:»... the Good News for the poor embodies genuine reconciliation by means of which the dignity of all people can be reaffirmed.»

Common good means that it is good for more than just one group of people — by definition that means that sometimes you need to sacrifice things that are good for you so others can have some of that «good», and vice versa.

Beautiful buildings in which to worship are not meant as gifts to the world but as offerings to God; offering not the mediocre but only the best, it is a material offering, just as we try to offer the best body (which is called by Him His temple) to Him, the difference being that He builds up in us the best temple in which to reside, Could more people have been fed with the money spent on building a church or a cathedral; maybe.

Indeed, on the basis of Matthew 25, ordering our attention and overcoming our addiction to distraction has everything to do with our ability to recognize Christ in one another and to learn what it means to be the body of Christ, a people formed by habits of good attention, giving and exchanging the gifts of attention in a world of distraction.

Our society tends to respond to the problem of lack of meaning and purpose by telling people that they will feel better if they more fully develop their egos.

We feel qualified by vision because it means somehow we can be better people (a big lie) one day.

If you need a God (s) to threaten you into being a good person then by all means keep your belief, the rest of us are good people by choice.

That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz

If being a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist (not naming a lot sorry), truly (and I mean TRULY) makes you want to make this world a better place by not judging people, then you chose the right religion.

If Kirk is right that society is a community of persons spanning past, present, and future, we have a responsibility to keep in touch with those who are dead as well as those who are not yet born — by imaginative, if not supernatural, means.

Even before we get to Genesis we have to first find out 1) what is God and 2) what does «existence» mean and 3) does God exist, we have not done any of these we just assumed that the other person knows what we mean by these terms, a dangerous assumption at best.

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.

It is a means by which a people may educate and discipline its own spirit for better or for worse.