Sentences with phrase «of things of the world»

A picture of Holy Communion's spire comes to mind and I remember the words of St. Bernard of Clairvaux: «Continual silence, and removal from the noise of the things of this world and forgetfulness of them, lifts the heart and asks us to think of the things of heaven and sets our heart upon them.»

We learn of God from «seeing the invisible,» as an inference from our empirical experience of the things of the world.

A deity that mainly operated in major transitions (as seems to be tacitly assumed by Johnson) seems to be «one of the things of the world» more than does the deity envisioned either by Neville or by Ford.

SH I've always been interested in work that makes use of things of the world — Kurt Schwitters, George Herms, Hannah Höch, collage and assemblage history.

Not exact matches

Admiral William McRaven, author of «Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life... And Maybe The World,» explains what he learned after being fired early on in his career.

Windows, far and away the most common operating system in the corporate world, is such a complicated and ornery thing — «a giant minefield of conflicts and problems,» says Cormier — that hackers are always finding new chinks in its armor to exploit.

Someone can see what they feel is the greatest advertisement in the world and be dead set on buying from that company, but if a friend tells them good things about another company that offers the same goods or services, most of the time they will take their friends advice and go with the alternative company.

And in the world of email specifically, «everyone's picky about different things in different ways,» as Bank put it.

For one thing, the interesting things that happen to all of us on a daily basis don't tend to occur when we're sitting on our butts but rather when we're out and about in the world.

When you're trapped in the world of your own mind, that's when things get stale.»

«I meet with them regularly to chat about what's going on in their world, how they think of things, and how we can do things differently in the company to appeal to that generation.

Wearables and the internet of things, the connected world — we're not even at the beginning of that.

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

«This book talks a lot about paradox of our world of hyper digital convenience that doesn't necessarily translate to a seemingly logical replacement of physical things.

For once, the competing leaders agreed on one thing: the historical shift of bringing broadband connectivity to the developing world.

«When we look at the world, there's plenty of things to worry about, so we would anticipate there could be episodes of higher volatility in the second half or even next year,» cautions Bruce Cooper, chief investment officer at TD Asset Management.

But I'm also looking for more complex things — are they able to operate in a world of uncertainty?

Things move fast in the world of finance.

Built for the «move fast and break things» world, WeWork serves a new kind of company, one that is willing to pay a little extra to avoid commitment.

Calls to cut regulation and red tape are often the first item of business for those promoting developments in the world's major cities, but not Perth's Adrian Fini, who sees things very differently.

This isn't always a bad thing and it's part of the psychology — or pathology if you prefer — that also makes it possible for entrepreneurs to quickly get over their past hiccups and get on with their main job of making history and changing the world.

(See This isn't always a bad thing and it's part of the psychology — or pathology if you prefer — that also makes it possible for entrepreneurs to quickly get over their past hiccups and get on with their main job of making history and changing the world.

As one of the world's premier experts in clinical trials, Don Berry, told me, «The standard clinical trial is pretty much the only thing in medicine that hasn't changed in the last 70 years.»

With so much of the world already furious at Israel, the last thing that country's leadership should be doing is taking the heat for Western imperial adventures.

The energy - industry veteran built and exited two companies and was leading her third: «Creating is one of the coolest things in the world»

The modern world of Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and the internet enable you to pre-sell things before they're produced.

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

But in order to survive in this world, you have to find a way of making those [things] and putting bread on the table at the same time.

We've always looked at professional sports, not because we want to model exactly what other sports do, but even when you're attempting to innovate, sometimes there are things that already exist in the world that work really well and work for a reason, and we shouldn't be afraid to use some of that.

Everyone in the world of Canadian business, and in Canada generally, is waiting to see how Notley will manage things at the crossroads.

And creating is one of the coolest things in the world.

Believe it or not, there was a time when you could say that kind of thing with a straight face in the marketing world.

If there's one thing that the Left relates to even more than suspicion of the Pentagon: it's default vilification of Israel as the world's leading lone wolf miscreant.

His thinking: Some of the world's best innovators have accomplished great things without graduating.

For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»

Stanford Business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer said that there are plenty of examples in the business world in which self - management indeed leads to more efficient and productive companies, but Hsieh's March 2015 memo is an example of how he's going about things the wrong way.

The internet of things has an huge future but don't underestimate how much it is changing the world right now.

And Brooklyn Brewery has benefited from their home base of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where there are so many different and innovative things happening across the arts, the food industry, and the startup world.

Internet entrepreneur Cody Brown makes a compelling case that the inability of Facebook (and Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc.) to enact consistent and enforceable policies around things like fake news and inflammatory speech arises from their foundational decision to treat users all over the world as a single audience.

Like so many books about innovation and the exciting world of tomorrow's business, it's a little buzzwordy and breathless, which can get stale quickly — and when you're talking about the future, stale is the last thing you want to be.

But a setback isn't the end of the world, it's a lesson that can teach some of the most exciting things about you, your product or your company that you never saw before.

With Valentine's Day around the corner, here's a stimulating spoonful of inspirational talks about that thing that makes the world go «round.

The Reaper, a bright - red, scary - looking thing, supplied by Kitchen Garden Farm of Sunderland, Mass, has been rated by Guinness as «The World's Hottest Pepper.»

We all expect services to do one thing right, allow you to search the world or enter 140 characters or post pictures of your friends.

It doesn't matter if you are a developer or a designer or a marketer, the world just seems to be in a hurry of getting things live.

Today, we hear a lot of doom and gloom conversation about where the world is going, yet many positive things are happening all around us.

Innovation is vitally important to any country's economic health, and Canada has a strong track record of inventing the world's next big things.

«In reality, the majority of organizations don't necessarily understand exactly where their profits are coming from, where their key missions are being driven from, and the key things they would need to be able to do and in what timeframe if that was disrupted,» says Lyndon Bird, international technical director of the Caversham, England - based Business Continuity Institute, which provides business continuity certification and guidance for companies around the world.

«There's one thing that world leaders don't like, particularly in the world we have right now with a lot of strong dictators around the world.

She and her business are the epitome of working from anywhere in the world, and as a result of her own experience, she's learned a thing or two about what it really takes to stay wildly productive when you're constantly traveling.