It ain't perfect (spoiler alert: you won't avoid feeling vulnerable), but it's the best available path we have to feel connected to our primary other with as little heartache as possible.
In describing an NEA convention, he says, «You can't avoid feeling that you've stumbled into a sort of indoor rally for human hot - air balloons.»
One can't avoid feeling alone when you are working on a pioneering ministry.
But when God's election of Israel becomes the basis for Jesus» initial refusal to heal this girl, we can
not avoid feeling indignant.
You can
not avoid feeling the physicality of the game.
Not exact matches
He may
avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply can
not learn and
feel and change and grow and love and live.»
If you are playing big in life, there is always the next big thing, so balance isn't necessarily about slowing down but being in touch with what recharges you and doing that when you first
feel the need to
avoid overwhelm and burnout.
And sometimes we write things we don't mean to
avoid the truth or cover up how we really
feel.
«For instance, «Cricketing» and «Ghostbusting» are simply by - products of attempting to spare someone's
feelings, or
avoiding an awkward conversation that we shouldn't shy away from.
Whatever your niche, try to
avoid what I call the «so what factor» whereby your content leaves your followers
not feeling engaged and wondering why they just wasted several minutes reading a post you have written or watching a video you shared.
Using the example of speaking to your boss,
avoid saying, «I enjoy working with you but I
feel my work is
not always valued.»
«Master of None» dedicated an entire episode of its new second season to dating apps, something the show's producers
felt couldn't be
avoided.
It helps me
avoid feeling like a jackrabbit jumping from one task to another and
not completing the important things first.
If you don't
feel comfortable taking a do - it - yourself approach, a business broker can help make sure you cover all bases and
avoid getting burned in a transaction.
It's virtually impossible to read the following quote and
not get a queasy
feeling: «Banks say that this time around they have figured out how to structure the credits to
avoid problems.»
As a result of this change since the scaling agreement many people in the community want to
avoid conducting the upgrade in November for the 2 x part because they don't
feel like there's really a need for it anymore because now people were doing these off block transactions and it's freed up all the space and people aren't having to add the tips and the fees if you will.
One way to
avoid this is to shine a (
not embarrassing) spotlight so that everyone can
feel good about everybody else's work, identify resources, and support each other.
«Well, we
avoided the tech stocks, but as we
felt we had no advantage there and other people did and I think that's a good idea
not to play where the other people are better, but you know, if you ask me in retrospect, what was our worst mistake in the tech field, I think we were smart enough to figure out Google,» Munger said.
I don't have to
avoid situations that used to make me
feel jealous.
old, and for many of the price to be paid by us and our children was just too high for us to dare to allow anyone to know that we didn't believe, in spite of that I actually have always
felt that many people who just went along with «it» to
avoid unpleasantness, never believed, as I never have.
After about a year or so of his loud and passionate arguing many of us would just
avoid him as we did
not feel that the arguments were valid nor important enough to listen to.
It's as though they are looking for a way to
avoid having to give their money to help the poor, and to
avoid feeling guilty about
not doing it either.
She told Premier: «We should make sure we don't
avoid the tricky passage in the Bible... there's a lot of hope for people who
feel suicidal in the Bible.
So
feel free to toss aside this piece of evidence if you want... but it doesn't change the other 99 % that you seem to
avoid like the plague.
While most Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, Cobb and a few others
felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that would
not avoid philosophical issues.
For it is
not merely that at that privileged point all the external springs of the world are co-ordinated and harmonized: there is the further, complementary marvel that the man who surrenders himself to the divine milieu
feels his own inward powers directed and enlarged by it with a sureness which enables him effortlessly to
avoid the all too numerous reefs on which mystical quests have so often foundered.
The awful moral choice forced on Senator Kerrey is a commonplace aspect of war,
not understood at all by professors and editorial writers who imagine, with obscene hubris, that they could
avoid the guilt
feelings associated with combat.
While the great majority of Protestant theologians turned to Barth and other Neoorthodox thinkers, a few of us
felt the need to deal directly with the question of God's reality, in a way that could
not avoid philosophical issues.
As to the «obscene hubris» of professors who imagine that they can
avoid feelings of guilt, I am
not sure who Dr. Breen is referring to.
Instead, it convinces the kids that their parents now associate those negative images with them, and the only way they can
avoid that association is to pretend
not to
feel what they
feel.»
If you are afraid I'll hurt your
feelings or the truth about why you are here is
not worthy of discussing, then just
avoid it.
... that he
feels the need to get saved just in case... even to
avoid the hell this Jesus will throw him into if he doesn't!
You may be able to
avoid connecting with someone through text when talking about
feelings and desires, but the individual on the other end of that conversation, whether single or married, may
not be able to control whether they do or
not.
So we stopped; it was hard, but I am glad we did it because it was
not comfortable to do something against conscience, and it was humiliating to
feel I was just doing it to
avoid offending family and friends.
My second point is that I do
not see how one who adheres to the doctrine of regional inclusion can
avoid affirming that one prehension has two subjects and this implication of the doctrine constitutes a reduction ad absurdum.8 That if established, it would be a reductio is clear from passages such as the following: «A
feeling is in all respects determinate, with a determinate subject, determinate initial data...»; no
feeling can be abstracted either from its data, or its subject» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 338 and 355).
Kinda makes a poor judge of character, so if you are willing to debate freely in a conversation on life, the world, the pursuit of knowledge, and all the unknowns in the world with an underage male, then I encourage you to continue the debate freely, but if you
feel outmatched in a knowledge criteria and you wish to
avoid shame of
not understanding enough or even
not knowing enough (because they are different) then i will gently step aside as
not to harm your ego.
Modified therapy groups do
not aim at radical personality changes and
avoid dealing with transference
feelings or other products of the unconscious.
They
avoided neurotic conflict by a certain emotional self - restriction: they did
not want to talk or think too much but
felt more comfortable in action, in sports or work.
So in spite of my trepidation, and in awe of tradition, and knowing that this gives an impression of audacity when what I
feel is rather an obligation that I can
not avoid, I am impelled by my understanding (such as I am capable of) to raise this challenge.
I wrote some things that were unintentionally hurtful to him in those early days and while they didn't result in any arguments, there were hurt
feelings that could have been
avoided simply by being more forthright.
Lest he be misunderstood, he says that panpsychism does
not for once question the real existence of such entities as atoms or electrons but merely insists that such individuals must «
feel» and «will» He does
not shrink from the view that electrons «enjoy» their existence and deliberately alter their orbits in order to obtain vivid contrasts and thus
avoid being bored.30
Or, as Horney put it, neurotic problems are very costly efforts to
avoid the fear of death by
not allowing ourselves to
feel really alive.
It is
not only a reasonable hypothesis to say that «eternal object» and «nexus of successive occasions» refer to the pattern of behavioral definiteness sustained by subordinate «living persons» and the regnant society: it is also one of the few hypotheses available for
avoiding the «Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness» by
not making the entire nexus the locus of subjectively immediate
feelings (WEP 183).
Scobie has always
felt such pity and responsibility for others that he can
not bring himself to hurt people, and to
avoid inflicting hurt he commits all kinds of sins.
This way, even though internally they know they don't actually believe they can
avoid the stigma of being a non-believer in a society full of delusional fanatics who would turn on them in a heartbeat were they to profess their true
feelings.
In later years, I myself sometimes wondered whether the whole family wasn't actually German, whether they hadn't pretended to be Yugoslavian to
avoid the anger that Americans, and especially Jews, still
felt toward Germans after the war.
Not even the best - intentioned intellectual can
avoid this agenda because of the imbalance between the way its pressures are
felt (as subtle, reasonable and built into the fabric of institutional relations) and the way those of an alternative agenda are
felt (as «outside,» diversionary, professionally unproductive).
If I am real, there are people I don't like because of the way they make me
feel when I am around them so I
avoid them but I don't wish them ill.
My husband has been
avoiding both gluten and soy, so we haven't been able to do Asian takeout in what
feels like forever.
I love nachos in all their cheesy goodness, but I'm
not a huge fan of how I
feel after chowing down on a plate Annnd I'm also trying to
avoid my giant yogurt bowls at the end of the night, again, cause they make me
feel less than awesome.