Sentences with phrase «observations of people»

And during the second World War, psychologist John Flanagan developed what he called the critical incident interview, which attempted to identify crucial traits and skills required for successful performance by gathering data on the behavior and observations of people in relevant situations, such as job events, crises, key prob, lems, and the like (Flanagan, 1954, pp. 327 - 358).

«I am inspired by observations of people and animals, memories mixed with stories and imaginings.

Kraft is showing three decades of her art, inspired and created over the years from her observations of people, captured in her sketchbook.

Kjartansson was raised in an environment of theatre and music, and combines this world with his observations of people, who — as the artist concludes — ultimately fail to reach perfection — despite endless repetition.

Personally, when I watch a movie like Civil War, I don't want to be thinking about how clever the observations of the people making the movie are.

In my many observations of people in various diets, I've found that the leaner you are, the more calories matter.

Observations of people meditating using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have shown that the amygdala, which lights - up during the fight or flight response, actually gets smaller with meditation, decreasing arousal and generating greater feelings of peace within subjects.

Recently, surprisingly, he's developed this sense of humorous observations of people and circumstances.

In my own observations of people, those who view sex as a duty tend to view service to God as a duty.

For me it is anguished contemplation of the world around me past and present, attentive involvement with and observation of persons and situations, and repeated self - examination that create a cumulative impression of tragically disproportionate bondage.

The observation of people and human systems (like political institutions), however, are not generally considered science, like history (for example).

It is also obvious that other approaches, for instance the observation of people or description of activities, might play a main role.

We have scientific value in the long - term observations of our peoples, and what our peoples have gone through to survive and adapt to changes that have been imposed on us.»

Although I am still learning about the science of this approach, I do have clinical experience and direct observation of people of all different shapes and sizes eating the same amount of food with different results in weight regulation and health outcomes.

The basic premise is that, just as every cell in our body apparently has all the DNA needed to create a new us, each person has their own essential nature that is present in even the shortest observation of that person.

The works of Melora Kuhn are a constant observation of people's experiences with themselves and with society.

In reality, however, just like in the principle of relativity in physics, in the context of identity and reputation theory there is no «preferred frame» for determining which set of observations of a person constitute that core person, or if a person has multiple names which name is his or her «real name».

Not exact matches

He had thought that launching in the holiday shopping spree might be a boon for his campaign, but «the obvious hindsight observation is that one of the coldest months of the year is not the time to trying to get people excited about coolers,» said Grepper.

For example, if you notice a worker struggling with one set of tasks but exceeding in another, let him or her know your observations, and make an effort to arrange the workload to a balance more favorable to the person's strengths.

«That's obviously a very micro level observation but kind of remarkable to have 40 % more people vote in a GOP primary than voted GOP in the last general,» he said.

Until this study, the first of its kind to use in - person and computer - assisted observation to measure the commercial - watching habits of 376 adults, no valid research had been done on the topic.

The good people of HowMuch.net, a cost comparison website, also make other observations in their article associated with the video here.

«After years of first hand observation, I am convinced beyond a shadow of doubt of the counterintuitive notion that one astute individual has five times the investment decision - making capacity of a committee of five persons who, individually, are equally endowed intellectually» Frank Martin

He said that his observations lead him to conclude that the default of people not ruled by love and justice is brutal violence and chaos.

Years and years of contemplation, observation, more contemplation and more observation can make a person intuitive, wouldn't you say?

A casual observation of the vastness of the oceans, the majesty of the mountains, or the beauty of a sunrise or sunset should cause any person to conclude, «There must be a God.»

Faith that the sun will rise is more of a resonable expectation than a belief despite evidence — there is a precedent set based on long observation by not only the person making the belief statement, but also by everybody else in the world (except maybe the Inuit).

It's to the point with some Christian posters here that any criticism of their actions and religious beliefs garners the immediate judgment that the person doing so is being hateful when, in reality, they are only fulfilling that very same Bible observation made by Jesus.

My observation is that people are concluding that in order to take care of their own spiritual lives it is necessary for them to leave the spiritual communities because they are at enmity with one another.

Ha, ha, a good observation about the Pharisees and Scribes» greediness but not all wealthy people are stingy, many are philanthropists, even unsaved liberals of noted notoriety.

A comment that stays with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.

The editor of Forum Letter, who brought the ELCA release to my attention, adds a wry observation on the claim of Guinness World Records: How many people, do you suppose, stood up that Sunday to profess the Creed in the cause of the faith?

Rather than a mere observation that feminine things are this and masculine things are that, people often leap from the description to the prescription — because you are «feminine,» you must be x, y, and z. And I think when people hear feminists rejecting the prescriptive part of gender divides, they hear that we're rejecting a gender divide altogether.

Here's an observation, too: if these people are debating over what the best objects are to strike children with, they've gone beyond violent discipline into an area of seriously evil pathology.

If a person is violent and / or adamantly refuses to accept help, it may be necessary for the family to call the police who will transport him to a public psychiatric ward (in a county hospital) or to a mental hospital for observation, This is the least desirable method of getting the person to treatment, but it sometimes becomes necessary as a last resort.

That of course, does not invalidate his observations in regards to non-violent activism, but it does underline the fact that a certain amount of disconnect must occur within these people in order to reach this particular stage.

Jewish people do tend to understand the sanctity of life for all people, but it does not seem (from my observation) that women and children are always shown the same respect as men.

My observation is simply this; for any person who is a believer out there, do you live the same as a puritan of the 1600's and if so why?

This idea comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people.»

Tietjen quotes longtime Concordia professor Arthur Repp's observation that «the Preus people... think we have to have a system of doctrine that spells out everything in detail to nail down what the Bible teaches.

An inductive, empirical approach in a field such as anatomy would certainly demand more than that each new student start from scratch, with only such general observations as that people come with parts such as heads, thoraxes, loins, thighs, hearts, kidneys, spleens and an assortment of tubes.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

A different person might summarize the situation slightly differently, or argue with the phrasing of particular observations, but I doubt that any honest observer of current literary culture could refute this sad summary of Catholic letters today.

When I get a chance I'll write a couple of posts — One about the homeless and Jesus (some dislike churches and Christians, others are Jesus followers, but most like Jesus), and one about observations the homeless make to us about the people who show up on their turf to «minister» to them (whose attitudes range from condescension, which is very common, to love, which is very uncommon).

I think the people of TN are afraid, based on their observations & experience after 9/11, that muslims will overrun the country with their weird ways of life.

No, people who make observations of their surrounding are only a problem for the church.

What human persons observe and discern to be true of the physical realm never denies that that very intelligent observation is a metaphysical relationship, which in turn relates to a greater intelligence, a Divine Person.

These observations also point to the role of mathematics in the making of persons.

It follows, for both James and Henry as it does for their sister in her best work, that our behavior with people close by is the true field of «morality,» and that happiness and well - being in life depend on the need for self - observation or clear insight into the self.

Conflicting ideas of what a pastor is, then (and I'm not suggesting you are doing this steve, more a generalised observation) various people trying to impose these conflicting ideas on the position known as «the pastor» while simultaneously ignoring that there is a real person who works in the role.