Sentences with phrase «of listening to other people»

«You have to be able to advocate, you have to develop the skill of listening to other people....

They learn the value of listening to other people's ideas, and how to express their own ideas in socially appropriate ways.

Not exact matches

I'm smart enough to know that you have to listen to other people and involve the [Ryerson] DMZs and incubators to do a lot of the things we're trying to do, both for me personally and the city as a whole.

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.

For the sake of professionalism, sometimes it's important to simply listen to what the other person has to say even when this means swallowing your pride.

When interviewing someone I listen very closely to the number and quality of side projects or other self - driven initiatives that person has worked on outside of their job.

«Your chance of being successful drops a lot if you're not willing to listen to other people, and the VCs know that.»

Instead of focusing on what you're going to say next, tune in to the other person and listen carefully — with the goal to truly understand their problem.

Effective communication isn't just about talking; leaders who master the art of listening authentically will have uncanny, X-Men-like ability to listen intuitively to the other person's story, asking questions, and searching conversations for depth, meaning and understanding with their needs in mind.

Instead of getting defensive, you'll be able to really listen to other people — and moreover, other people will be able to really listen to you.»

«Listening to what other people are doing can spark an idea or conversation, and other opportunities can arise as well,» says the CEO of Alpharetta, Ga. - based School Growth, which provides professional development programming for schools and school boards.

Actively listen by taking your own opinions and thoughts out of your mind, and actually hear what the other person is trying to convey.

I know Demand Media, and this is one that you mentioned in the AdSense Secrets ebook, there are obviously a huge player in, if you aren't familiar with Demand Media they own eHow and this is to people who are listening I know that you are Joel, eHow.com and bunch of other major, huge information based websites and make a lot of money targeting content that's searched frequently but also has a lot of low competition.

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A key part of active listening is really absorbing what the other person is trying to say.

I've been around the world and met a lot of talented emcees in various different countries and I've listened to people rap in Czech, Japanese, German and countless other languages that I can't speak.

People need to be aware of this point and NOT listen to me or other people when it comes time to invest their own People need to be aware of this point and NOT listen to me or other people when it comes time to invest their own people when it comes time to invest their own money.

The Mobile Vaani network makes use of an intelligent IVR (interactive voice response) system that allows people to make a free call into a number and leave a message about their community, or listen to messages left by others.

That if you want to read other people's emotions more accurately, instead of looking at their faces, you should listen with your eyes closed?

It reads: «Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication.

So if you and your friend both happen to be playing a game together or on an app or listening to music together then that app could have some information from both of you because you each signed in and authorized that app but other than that, people wouldn't be able to share information from their friends.»

However, when people are willing to communicate and to listen to each other, this scenario can be avoided most of the time.

Let us remember that and be more respectful — let us reach out to each other with AT THE LEAST tolerance that each person will have different views and INSTEAD of trying to degrade someone just because they refuse to adhere to your beliefs — LISTEN to them and allow that you may feel differently but they have a RIGHT to believe or not believe as they will.

«Being listened to, first of all, is a really key thing [for young people] and of course we can all play a role in that: as parents, as friends, as uncles, aunts, teachers and other professionals.

I myself am Mormon I have always been a mormon ever since I was born, most of you don't even know what you are talking about, you just listen to what other people say about us but don't even visit he church.

If i was an atheist I would not worry about taking advantage of other people for my own benefit since I would have nothing to loose... Again I don't listen to what religious books say they all have been twisted, but some things are common sense.

There were three religion - free people staff in our clinic yesterday (of 12 folks), and we got to listen to many of the good Christian folks bash Caitlyn Jenner yesterday — slapping each other on the back.

Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending church that there is wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the church, which does not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

You realise that this is not the place for other people's songs, this is the place for your own breath so you put away the music and listen to the noise of effort.

The other ear listens to the parable of the growing seed in Mark 4:26 - 29 with its rebuke of self - righteous zealotic activism, and its claim that God, not the people, will establish the kingdom when the time is ripe.

In 1900, you couldn't listen to music here in Jaffrey unless you did it in the company of other people.

Ronnie G this is not about the Meat Puppet — it is about a person who is scamming anyone who listens to her she is leveraging other folks misery just do a Google search on her and her organziation as for my contribution to society — my employees and I fund and support two food kitchens on weekends for disadvantaged youth if you were able to master the use of tools we would invite you to join us — go phuck yourself

I did some research into how the word theopneustos was used in other Greek literature of the time, and without fail, it is used of poets and philosophers who seem to speak with a certain passion and urgency that makes people listen and obey what they are saying.

Tolerance for another's opinion is one of the things that makes America free and great, backlash against Graham or the Chik - fil - A CEO is only evidence that people are becoming less willing to listen to each other.

The Christian god also says to kill evangelicals too If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, «Let us go and worship other gods» (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to them or listen to them.

As Borsch reminds us, «some people more than others need to be reminded that humans also have a more passive role to play in the creation — one of listening, admiring, sitting on the porch, and looking out over the fields.

So the book of MORON teaches this fool that god makes hurricanes to show us that we need to stockpile food, Indians / black people are bad because god made them that color for not listening to his warnings about warring with other tribes, and the garden of Eden is in Mi (sery) souri.

and that just as you want them to listen to how you arrived at your conclusions regarding the text (and don't say, «I just read the Bible,» because you didn't), so also, that other person likely engaged in deep study of the biblical text to arrive at their understanding and it would benefit you to hear how they came to their understanding.

Disagree with the other person if you want to, but recognize that they are trying to understand and explain the text just as much as you are, and that just as you want them to listen to how you arrived at your conclusions regarding the text (and don't say, «I just read the Bible,» because you didn't), so also, that other person likely engaged in deep study of the biblical text to arrive at their understanding and it would benefit you to hear how they came to their understanding.

Join a bunch of other people who have escaped, who share their stories, and who listen to others with an open ear, mind, and heart!

People are biblically illiterate which is why they listen to the hear - say of others instead of doing the work to find it themselves.

From the pen of Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain: I don't know exactly what about me threatens them so much, other than that people are listening to me.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

I listen to pastors condemn the lack of biblical literacy in the church today and then turn around and say the most outlandish things about God or Jesus, and even crazier things about people of other religions, political persuasion, or sexual orientation.

We believe that in addition to listening to one another, we need to know what people of other faiths and no faith are saying about Jesus Christ and his followers.

«Don't think that this blog and others are up here by accident, if you really want to do something then write congress, tell our leaders that they had better start listening to the majority of the people»

Although I had a personal interest in listening to other voices, none of my graduate school courses had required a text by a woman or by a person of color.

On the one hand, there is his irenic attitude of openness in a very thorough looking at and listening to the other, as well as in utmost care in judging people of other religions.

We may reconstruct the adjectives and phrases used to describe him both at the cocktail parties of the Corinthian elite (if the latter was aware of him at all) and in the pubs where his petit - bourgeois clientele would gather: «fundamentalist,» «simplistic,» «compulsive - neurotic,» «asking too much of sensible people,» «never listening to the other side of an argument,» «perhaps a little crazy» — in sum, some thing of a disagreeable fanatic.