Sentences with phrase «of narrow thinking»

But as Wallace says, that optimism is headed for a collision course with the boring, devastatingly routinized real world — and, in making a point about the pitfalls of narrow thinking in general, he offers some of the best advice a recently graduated environmentalist will hear:

Get out of this narrow thinking.

Other examples of this type of narrow thinking are legion in the business world, and retail food is no exception.

Not exact matches

But focus, by definition, narrows the scope of our thinking, and given how complex and fast moving most business problems are, we should relearn the skill of simply opening our mind and giving ourselves half an hour to think, in an unstructured, creative way, about whatever pops up.

Still, while those with less gold - plated resumes need to think more carefully, Kalt's piece is a refreshing reminder that talent generally shows through — and generally the best way to develop your talent is to follow you interests instead of trying to stick to a narrow, pre-described career path.

Contingent motivators (such as «if you do this, then that») narrow thinking and block creativity unless the tasks at hand are simple and rote, Daniel Pink said in a TED Talk «The Puzzle of Motivation.»

«I think there are implications in a narrow area such as judicial decision - making, as well as in a more general area of «understanding and explaining human behavior,»» says Mocan.

«The way we think about it is that we used to have a very narrow focus on weight, and now weight is one of things we focus on but it's not the only thing,» Gary Foster, Weight Watchers» chief scientific officer, told Time magazine in late 2015.

My context for thinking about markets is the psychology of longer - term secular cycles and how broad or narrow markets are (more on this shortly).

Based on your input, I think I might still try to write about all of these things, but narrow my focus and / or spin off that content into a new blog, should anything gain enough traction to be profitable.

In fact, though, I think even this analysis is too narrow: e-commerce is inexorably taking over more and more of the U.S. retail sector in particular, and Amazon is taking over 50 % of that e-commerce growth.

«History says that in the subsequent years, a narrow range should not be thought of as a coiled spring, ready to jump but rather when you have a narrow range, it usually ends up with a pretty small advance,» he said.

However, I do think the fact that such a narrow slice of the market has driven much of the S&P 500's gains poses a growing risk and headwind for gains in the coming year.

I do not mean a narrow economist's definition, but rather the whole way of thinking about inflation in business, government and the community generally.

Meanwhile, the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) also released its Financial Stability Report today with thoughts along the same lines, warning that cyber risk is a strategic priority rather than a narrow technology issue.

I hope to explore this properly in another note soon, but suffice to say for the time being that the typical framework economists use to think about inflation - which they proxy by changes in the CPI - is narrow, incomplete and fails to do justice to the richness of inflation as a concept.

It is not Mr. Morneau who wrote this response but some shallow thinking and narrow economist type steeped in the failing neo-liberal policies of the last 50 years and whose training in Neoclassical economics has blunted their perception of reality.

Calomiris proposes (1) internal governance reforms that would decentralize power within the Fed and promote diversity of thinking; (2) policy process reforms that would narrow the Fed's primary mandate to price stability and require the Fed to adopt and disclose a systematic approach to monetary policy; and (3) other reforms that would constrain the Fed's asset holdings and activities so as to avoid actions that conflict with its monetary policy mission and that risk undermining its independence.

Instead of being so «narrow minded» and concerned about «women's rights» attempt to open your mind to people who do things very differently then you do but it is actually working... (Of course I am not naive enough to think my husband never sees another women walking down the street but read between the lineof being so «narrow minded» and concerned about «women's rights» attempt to open your mind to people who do things very differently then you do but it is actually working... (Of course I am not naive enough to think my husband never sees another women walking down the street but read between the lineOf course I am not naive enough to think my husband never sees another women walking down the street but read between the lines)

Is it the problem of thinking that you won't have troubles as a Christian or is it the problem of having too narrow a view of what is a blessing.

I think I was sent here to illuminate the dark corners of narrow minds going nowhere.

Without a relationship with Jesus you do not enter Heaven, im sorry if you think me bigoted, narrow minded or unenlightened but that is the truth, you know, the kind of truth that the rabble have a propensity for crucifying those who speak it?

Once we begin to think in this way (entailing, of course, a «paradigm shift») we are able to get beyond our narrow and destructive anthropocentrism and respect nature almost as we respect our fellow humans.

I was hoping to point out the narrow mind thinking, inflexible mentalities of the two groups

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

«As you've done to the least of these you've done unto me...» I think that a faith which s not broad or deep enough to inspire down to earth empathy - in - action, which doesn't strive for real world results (however temporary they may be), is far too small and narrow a faith.

Only a small number of kennedy catholics think this way and have a narrow definition of the «poor».

I think the conversation between traditional Christian groups and the gay community is much wider than the narrow debate about the biblical view of same - sex relations.

It is here that I think he trivializes his metaphysical position by squeezing it into the too narrow framework of scientific inquiry.

They thought our political establishment adequate to their interests, and they toggled back and forth between Democrat and Republican on the basis of a fairly narrow range of issues.

Within the extremely narrow sliver of time when human beings have occupied centre - stage on world history, why is it that this issue has come to dominate our thoughts and actions?

Group polarization happens when, in the absence of diverse influences, homogenous group members tend to adopt more extreme and narrow - minded thinking as time passes.

And in fact, it was this narrowing of focus from 1/100 to 1/10 to 1/2 that caused me to finally see what this parable is really about (at least, what I currently think it is really about).

For me, the z - theory has freed my mind from a narrow, fundamentalist way of thinking and has opened new vistas of understanding and, I hope, wisdom.

Regardless of your view's on Santorum, the author offers us hope that Evangelicals are beginning to think beyond the narrow confines of strict Bible interpretations and understand the values that underlie the message of Jesus in the new Testament.

Do you think the evangelical community has a narrow view of what «American» is?

April 1999), which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.

You are so narrow minded, intransigent (look it up in the dictionary), and without any ability to think outside of your little «box» called the bible.

In Science and the Modern World, Whitehead argues strongly against the value of pure abstraction because it leads to thinking that is detached from concrete reality and it leads to narrow specialization.

But that may be too narrow a way of thinking.

We should teach both sides of the story, we shouldn't be narrowed into one was of thinking.

As for the «narrow public witness» against which John Murdock rightly cautions, I really don't think «prioritizing» equals «ignoring,» such that to prioritize the defense of religious freedom and the right to life excludes other issues from the Church's social witness and public policy advocacy.

This approach (which is, I think, more impressionistic than analogical) would have the advantage of not forcing all religions into a single, narrow mold — a point to which I shall return.

The secular historian does not have this particular and narrow concentration of interest, but thinks of «tua res agitur» in the comprehensive sense that «nothing human is foreign to thee».

Perhaps no other phrase so aptly characterizes the quality and significance of Martin Buber's life and thought as the one of the «narrow ridge.»

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe... The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

It seems this line of thought narrows the focus of Paul's argument to just Gentiles in the church.

Once accept the disclosure of God in Christ (and in all that is Christ - like in human experience, for we ought not to be exclusively christo - centric in the narrower sense); once take that disclosure with utmost seriousness — and then God as «pure unbounded love» becomes central in our thinking.

In the narrow sense, I view these as precursors of process thought.