Sentences with phrase «most about these conversations»

What has surprised me the most about these conversations is the wide range of responses I get when I pose questions or challenges.

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Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

Below are just a few of the young female leaders leading national and international conversations about some of the world's most critical issues:

Legend's most recent response came after West shared a screenshot of a text conversation with someone named Steve about the history of the Republican party.

«Most of the dinner conversation at Café des Amis that evening was about Laura's cancer,» Conway recalls, «and why they had to try everything possible to save her.»

The reason: Most of today's conversations on colors and persuasion consist of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about «colors and the mind.»

«Probably the mistake parents make most is that they don't have conversations about money with their kids,» said Laura Levine, president and chief executive of the Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

The Sinaloa Cartel and the CJNG are arguably the most talked - about and strongest cartels in Mexico, but where do the Zetas fit into this conversation?

«The most awkward conversation to have in a workplace environment is about sexual harassment,» he texted.

And while dieting may be on the mind in most conversations about fast food, respondents to the survey said it wasn't a major concern.

The 30 words most associated with conversations about women are unsettling.

CB: We've spent most of this conversation talking about new things, but I imagine that the Big Mac and French fries are still the core of your business.

Perhaps the most interesting part of our conversation was about the scale needed to compete in the mobile market.

Developing and protecting the culture is one of the most sacred parts of the SEAL experience, but if you listen to a lot of conversation in the business world, «culture» isn't much more than a soft buzzword that gets put up on a PowerPoint slide once or twice a year ten minutes after you talk about the corporate mission statement or annual strategic initiatives.

In fact, most people spend a whopping 60 percent of conversations talking about themselves.

Ads that spark powerful conversations about social issues like Always» #LikeAGirl campaign, and gaming ads — gaming videos are among the site's most popular genres — like Clash of Clans and Boom Beach made strong showings.

In our conversation, Business Insider talked with Kelly about what he saw in space, what he missed back on Earth, and how he went from a kid who couldn't focus into one of the most celebrated astronauts of our time.

Mr. Thiel said, «I figured it would eventually come out,» adding that he was happy his role might spur a conversation about it being «extremely hard for the most common victims to get justice.»

And in fact, the days I feel I've improved the most as an investor are usually the days where I am away from my computer screen deep in thought, reading something useful, or having productive conversations with someone that knows more about a particular business than I do.

Now I work 30 hours a week focusing on the parts of my full - time job that I'd always been most excited about: writing career - related content, creating webinars and videos for job seekers, and furthering the public conversation about work flexibility.

The most successful sales relationships often start with energetic, productive conversations between two people who are genuinely curious about how they can work together to help each other.

I was concerned in several conversations, with me undertaking most of the listening, about the prospect of a sharp oil price tag spike, if the Opec exporters» cartel, getting broken US shale producers by dragging prices down, starts off limiting source as soon as much more.

In the meantime, they remain second - class citizens in most conversations about corporate governance.

Join three of today's most knowledgeable experts to hear about how health technology systems are influencing well - being through data collection, analytics and improved services, in what promises to be a provocative and productive conversation.

As you can see, conversations about medical ethics can get complex and circuitous very quickly (like many socio - political issues do)-- which is precisely the point that most of us miss.

The church has become one of most the influential young congregations in the country, regularly engaging in conversations about race and social injustice.

• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends.

When churches seem closed to dialogue, young adults often look elsewhere for more palatable conversations about issues that matter most to them.

While its secret services penetrate everywhere and plug in to the most intimate conversations, it pleads a touching concern for confidentiality, and makes a sensitive display of worrying about the question of a privacy in which all that is private is the interest of the exploiters.

Is it wrong that I don't want to invite (much less demand) that either Julie or Tony air their most profound, intimate pain in this public forum in order to have a conversation about theology and abuse?

Most Likely to Start an Argument Between You and Your Friends: Roger Olson with «Some Thoughts About Conversations / Debates Between Calvinists and Arminians» «It seems to me that most 5 point Calvinists I know seem bound and determined to believe anything they think the Bible says regardless of how horrific that mayMost Likely to Start an Argument Between You and Your Friends: Roger Olson with «Some Thoughts About Conversations / Debates Between Calvinists and Arminians» «It seems to me that most 5 point Calvinists I know seem bound and determined to believe anything they think the Bible says regardless of how horrific that maymost 5 point Calvinists I know seem bound and determined to believe anything they think the Bible says regardless of how horrific that may be.

Most Popular Comment: Zack, in response to «Better Conversations About Biblical Womanhood (Part 1),» wrote:

It occurred to me yesterday (as I was skillfully avoiding an encounter with a certain someone at the grocery store) that the most frustrating thing about being seen as an «outsider» is knowing that when people talk to you about faith, they approach the conversation with the assumption that you have nothing to contribute to it.

Prayer is only a conversation which we have with ourselves and all that it can do, for most of us, is reinforce the many stupid things we believe about ourselves and «others».

In the wake of losing my dad, I was flooded with conversations about my loss, most of which I don't remember at all.

Over the past year, a few friends and I have had an open conversation about the highs and lows of marriage — specifically how to make the most of the high times and avoid the low ones.

What is perhaps most frustrating about engaging in such conversations within the evangelical community in particular, however, is that differences regarding things like Calvinism and Arminianism, baptism, heaven and hell, gender roles, homosexuality, and atonement theories often disintegrate into harsh accusations in which we question one another's commitment to Scripture.

The first and most obvious is how it reduces a complex conversation about government size to a snarky talking point.

Shari`a reasoning is, in effect, a kind of transgenerational conversation among Muslims regarding the implications of these signs and about the behaviors that are most consistent with the ideal way and which therefore will lead to happiness in this world and the next.

Most people don't actually want to talk about Jesus, they either want to throw Jesus into every conversation as if that somehow is the same thing or gripe about those who claim to follow him.

We are willing to entertain conversation about most anyone who makes a mistake or does something wrong, even when it has nothing to do with us.

Just last week I was speaking to a Jewish individual who was very upset at someone else, and for most of the conversation, I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.

to J.W. and fred — i think its rather silly to argue anything as fact if its cleary thought based (i.e. lacking proof / evidence) when asked about the where did we come from or how the universe (whatever) i always answer with i don't know, but then i pose an idea — i state openly thats its only an idea... if any one of you religions folks would simple agree to the FACT that what you BELIEVE is real is REALLY only an idea until proven (much like evolution) then i would find much more pleasing conversations beyond the realm of atheists... but alas, i am still waiting — i found some but most are imovible in there beliefs that god is real, provable, and most def.

I remember the conversation but can't remember if it was you that was most vociferous about this or not.

When I bring up intersex people in conversations about gender and sexuality, I am typically met with blank stares, shrugged shoulders, and dismissive platitudes about how most people fit neatly into male and female categories and generalities, so we shouldn't worry about the outliers.

It does something else - most conversation between people of various religions is an intellectual debate about why my religion is right and yours is wrong.

I doubt my book will be satisfactory to most, but I hope it will lead to further conversations about this topic.

Most Popular Comment: In response to «' Driscoll, Real Marriage, and Why Being A Pastor Doesn't Automatically Make You a Sex Therapist,» Preston Yancey started quite the conversation when he responded to Driscoll's strong words about his wife Grace: ««Had I known about this sin, I would not have married her.»