Sentences with phrase «most people act»

So while it's possible to open just the second email and ignore the first and third, for example, most people act in sequence.

The problem is that most people act like they do understand the unknowable.

Most people act the part when they're speaking to the hiring manager or other «important» people, but some will pull a Jekyll and Hyde act the moment they walk out the door, treating others with disdain or indifference.

And in fact when I'm asked, «What advice would you give individuals who are not going to dedicate themselves to this and what not,» I tell them, «The market might not be perfectly efficient, but for most people acting as if it is,» and this is not the only way to get to an index fund, but it's one route to get to it, it's certainly one route that implies an index fund.

Not exact matches

But most importantly, they act as destinations; places that people choose to go because they can both give what they want and get what they need.

«I think the way in which he acts, especially his corrosive effect on norms — truth - telling being the most important of them — has that staining effect on institutions and people who are close to them.

The act of writing is very hard for most people.

Under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, adopted in most states, information counts as a trade secret if it meets three criteria: The information must have independent economic value to people outside the company, the information must be generally unknown and unlikely to be discovered by lawful means, and the owner of the secret must make efforts to maintain the secret.

Not only is it impossible to anticipate in such a code every possible variable or potential dilemma, but always «it is possible to satisfy the letter of the law while still committing an act that most reasonable people would consider unethical or immoral.»

3) One of the most interesting things about all this is that what we're seeing here is the undoing of the competitive market's tendency to prevent people from acting out their biases.

When all the most successful people in your chosen field are gathered, get yourself in the room however you can and then act like you belong.

One of the very first acts of business between two of the most powerful people on Earth — a duo whose to - do list involves addressing pretty fundamental disagreements on, among other things, the trade relationship that supports both economies — was to commit, publicly and unequivocally, to tackling an issue that affects literally half of each of their constituencies.

Most people won't act unless they have a sense of imminent danger.

In the boardroom and on the potato field, McCain wants its people to feel and act like family, and for the most part, they do.

The most successful people have adopted a set of habits that helps them attract opportunities, and then puts them in the right place at the right time to act on them.

You're right about the main reason, but that's because most people don't understand the purpose of Absolute Return investments is to diversify a portfolio — not act as a substitute for long - only equity exposure (which as you say can be obtained very cheaply)

By now, most people are likely aware of the government's attempts to use the All Writs Act from 1789 as a tool to force Apple write new software with weaker security so that feds could unlock an iPhone 5c they had in custody.

Most people are stimulated by leadership roles, even in an acting position.

Research shows that a sense of urgency is one of the most powerful ways to spur an emotional reaction in people who feel compelled to act rashly.

In 1968, after a decade that saw the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Junior and Bobby Kennedy, Congress passed the Gun Control Act, which, in part, grew the list of those people who could not purchase guns, to most convicted felons and mentally ill people.

But the act of directly asking for something can be a tremendous challenge that stymies even the most successful people.

Once in a while, people are given a third - person point of view and are asked by the author to act on that knowledge, but for the most part, we are stuck in first - person.

I am VERY tired of people preaching to me and others about how «a Christian would and should act» when the hypocrisy of the matter is that I, a «none believer» practice «The Golden Rule» more than most!

It's all about self control and respecting the dignity of the other person during the most beautiful act a man and woman can engage in, not turning it into the most popular contact sport of our generation.

Some researchers think humpbacks may be purely altruistic — meaning that they, unlike most animals and, let's be real, most people — are simply acting out of the goodness of their hearts.

FOX has the most wonderful talent for putting people on the air who act like they are on the third day of a raging meth binge.

Most priests are pretty liberal too... always being for «the poor» never telling the poor people to get their act together.

If it were the case that the Jews acted wrongly by taking land from the Palistinians by force... it would be of course, one of the most understandable acts of aggression in History... after what was bestowed upon them in WWII what people wouldn't suffer a temporary loss of sanity?

Most people believe they are acting in accord with a God.

Some time fears and acts of fears leads people to what you fear most to happen... so it is how it will be played that will determine the future... so as BO said that to show good feelings and give a helping hand will make you less enemies than if go on the bases of power and superiority...

What is most upsetting about this is how juvenile these people in question act.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, «This wanton killing of innocents is just the most recent of the many vicious acts perpetrated by ISIL - affiliated terrorists against the people of the region, including the murders of dozens of Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai, which only further galvanizes the international community to unite against ISIL.»

No, he acted pretty normal, and did what most religious people of his day wanted him to do... to accuse Jesus of being a false Messiah and give Him over to the Roman officials for crucifixion.

When people act «rationally» in the exchange of goods and services, that is, when they try to get the most they can for the least payment in money or service, market activity increases and society as a whole benefits from the increased availability of desired goods and services.

If your most valuable, defining core just is the self that you choose to express, there can be no real difference between you as a person, and your acts of self - expression; I can't affirm you and oppose those acts.

Yet the weekly reiteration of the entire service (including the sermon) is the church's most - used method of shaping people for attitudes and acts of ecclesial and social justice.

At times I act «in the first person,» while at other times, in fact most of the time, a more habitual or pre-personal thread of occasions unifies my behavior.

The most perfect mediator ought to have the most perfect act of mediation in regard to the person in whose favour he intervenes.

, tried to fight off her attacker (an act proven to be pointless, not to mention it's an ableist suggestion in the first place (doesn't take people with physical or mental disabilities into consideration)-RRB-, didn't let her rapist in (even though most rape victims know their attackers)-- she wouldn't have been raped.

Believe it or not, while most people view death as a curse and a punishment from God, a proper understanding of death allows us to see it as a blessing and an act of kindness from God.

Far from being an act of rebellion or an open attempt outwardly to overthrow abused power, it was a quiet, constrained, symbolic act that ironically caught the person of highest power in the midst of a most ordinary human activity.

The year 2006 may for most people mark the tenth anniversary of the 1996 Welfare Act, signed by Bill Clinton, after he had vetoed two previous efforts, and just before crucial midterm elections that November.

On the other hand, don't most of us know people who look and act nothing like what we suppose someone created in God's image should look and act like?

-- Most (if not all) «happy - clappy», evangelical churches act in extroversion... but they will be quick to close borders and associate themselves only with «certain» other people.

These days, in most people's understanding, it carries the fullest possible weight of criticism and condemnation of a person, rather than of an act.

The most negative statement by Paul regarding same - sex acts occurs in Romans 1:24 - 27 where, in the context of a larger argument on the need of all people for the gospel of Jesus Christ, certain homosexual behavior is given as an example of the «uncleanness» of idolatrous Gentiles.

But when we really look at the what blasphemy is, we find that most of these sermons, books, and pastors were simply misinformed or were trying to control other people to act or behave a certain way.

God knew this in the Old Testament (and even today), and so allows people to blame Him for the most horrendous actions, not because He has done these things, and not because He has commanded that such things be done, but because He knows that if He does not act as the scapegoat, we will destroy ourselves.

The Greeks believed (as do the people of most religions) that the gods are angry and need to be appeased (aka bribed) in order to act nicely toward humans.

I think for the most part you can't judge an entire group of people all together in a lump, however when most of them act a certain way and the way is contemptible behavior, I think it's time to take a deep look at it.