Sentences with phrase «of the truisms of»

It's one of the truisms of the profession; it can also pin you into a corner, and some guys fight like hell out of that corner.

It speaks of the truisms of life and does so in a subtle way, which is the key to its success.

But one of the truisms of the internet is that businesses can no longer control how consumers perceive them.

One of the truisms of sales comes from Merle Ace: «Salespeople usually quit a long time before they leave the job.»

Not exact matches

This will show that company culture isn't just platitudes and truisms plastered on the walls, together with trendy logos and stock photos of fake smiles.

There are, of course, limits to this truism, otherwise there'd be even more celebrity gossip «stories» out there than there already are, but for the most part news outlets like to give people what they want.

I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

«That much may indeed be true, but it was one of many of the tall tales that further evolved into a truism of sorts, that was basically «accepted» as such by historians, press and mafia history aficionados,» Cipollini said.

And it is a truism, but an accurate one, to say that Germany's problems were that it was (for that reason) too late unified, had great difficulty determining whether it was an eastern or western - facing country, and that whenever it set out to assure its own security, it disturbed the security of its neighbours.

Most mission statements are full of trite truisms and are anything but inspirational.

Many oft repeated truisms are more about wish fulfillment than reality (sorry peddlers of endless, uncritical «follow your passion!»

No one would disagree with the common - sense truth that it's easier to get yourself to do something you value, but rarely do most of us connect that simple truism with our anti-procrastination efforts.

notes a BusinessWeek roundup of management truisms that should be shown the door.

I resisted reading it for a long time because I figured it would be full of self - affirmational claptrap, and there is some of that, but it's mainly about a simple financial truism: no matter how much money you make, the only way to get rich is to spend much less than you earn.

It is a truism that the path of the economy depends to a large degree on the maintenance of confidence and business optimism.

We have never understood the truism that most first - generation wealth is created on the strength of one idea or company, and then concludes with the dubious assumption that in order to preserve it, it must be spread among a thousand other companies» Frank Martin

Within Mandelbrot's book lies many truisms of the market, with one of the most recurring themes being that traditional business school financial models are quite simply, wrong.

It's a truism that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and this old adage applies in spades to the phenomenon of pirate websites that allow users to access «free» content.

Jacoby's occasion for recycling this tired truism is David Gelernter's new book, America - Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), which he thinks is short on arguments and full of shrill right - wing clichés about tenured radicals and rootless intellectuals.

Perhaps one can find the occasional bleached fragment of a truism floating in the sewage of her malevolent system» say, an abhorrence of deadening collectivism» but nothing more interesting than that.

Those of us who embrace a universalism (in some fashion) as a truism really don't give a fuck that YOU have declared that we are wrong.

I think of this truism every time a booming, huffing car rolls down the street, windows open and the bass blasting an ominous beat.

But either through the quoted satire, or through what they may recognize as a truism, there is always a reflection of the one posting.

It may be safe to say the churches made by men's own hands is not the religious churches truisms for the real churches are of life's embodiments.

They eat and drink at the bar of Google, as if Google, or any internet information, is absolute truism.

There is something rather obvious — even a truism here — that stands in stark contrast to much of the history of evangelical scholarship.

It has become almost a truism to speak of present - day American culture as leisure - oriented.

That the major function of governments is to create a favorable context for economic activity is now almost a truism.

These «truisms» should form a kind of perimeter for the moral imagination, even if there will be exceptional cases based on social and historical circumstances.

He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.

In order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

This production does not shed any new light on the play's themes, but wisely focuses on Shakespeare's wit and warmth, allowing the audience to delight in the escapades and truisms of some of the canon's most beloved characters and draw their own conclusions.

Again, thank you Mr. Nye for your support of real truisms.

Quoting Whitehead, he indicates what he thinks might be the reason for this lack of understanding: «The truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.»

Moral relativism is a truism — that's why there have been so many different types of religion and government throughout human history.

@David Johnson «It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.»

Prophets Of The Culture Of Death It is a truism to say that cultural trends which begin in America will, in due course, reach Britain.

Now, in many areas of the academy the above is sufficiently obvious to be regarded as a truism, something that hardly needs saying.

I knew I could go to church every Sunday and be given a lot of emotive truisms.

Populism has rocked the political culture of the West, overthrowing old truisms.

Owing to the disastrous confusion, more especially by Hume, of conceptual feelings with perceptual feelings, the truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

A longstanding truism in political science is that apathy and a lack of interest are the dominant features of public opinion.

The philosophy of being (as opposed to the philosophy of process) will then follow as a logical truism.

Their well - intended programs to alleviate juvenile delinquency or ease the burdens of the aged overlook basic truisms: that the human impulse is to achieve; that children, like septuagenarians, respond to need more quickly than to praise; and that do - gooders all too often are egotists seeking applause rather than results.

Perhaps finding one's identity in God's love rather than in attainment of some extrinsic standard of perfection is more than the living out of a truism — perhaps, in this climate of intensive mothering, it's more like a survival skill.

The force of this truism in Barth's thinking moved him to liberate theology from its dependence on philosophy and its vulnerability to demythologizing criticism.

«It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.»

This is such a truism that one is almost ashamed to pen the words, and yet it remains a fact that, in a great deal of the more conservative biblical scholarship, it does seem to be assumed that the appeal to factual accuracy would he as valid and important a factor in the case of ancient Near Eastern religious texts as it would be in a modern western court of law or in a somewhat literally - minded western congregation.

One familiar facet of the principle is the truism that the statute does not concern itself with the lawfulness of the income that it taxes.

In Minjung theology it is a truism that the question of power can not be separated from the life of the Minjung grassroots people in history.