Sentences with phrase «of writing down your thoughts»

One benefit of writing down your thoughts and expectations throughout the year is that it becomes very easy to identify what has been surprising.

The act of writing down your thoughts brings this process one step closer to reality as it directly transfers your desires into something you can see, touch and feel.

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Even though the planners had, in effect, spent more time thinking about their task, with no progress made on the task itself, as Baumeister and Tierney explain, «their minds had apparently been cleared by the act of writing down a plan.»

Every time your customer wants to write something down, he or she will think of your establishment.

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«So I think each of us is going to be taking the developments since the December meeting into account and writing down our new rate paths as we go into the March meeting, and I wouldn't want to prejudge that,» he said, in comments before the House Financial Services Commitee.

One client of hers noticed by writing down his thoughts that he often told himself, «That's not going to work.»

Write down your concerns and think of the worst things that can happen.

As you sit down to write, you think about all of the things that you have learned about business writing from meetings with your marketing department and SEO pros.

You just need to take a bit of time to get your thoughts down in writing in order to quell those nagging negative thoughts.

Over the next few minutes those in the room independently write down every reason they can think of for the failure — especially the kinds of things they ordinarily wouldn't mention as potential problems, for fear of being impolitic.

Writing down your thoughts and goals can be a great way to refocus your energy and look to the future instead of obsessing about the past.

[24:28] If I follow the trail of your stress, it will show you your deepest fear [24:36] If you want to change your life, you have to acknowledge that you suffer [24:53] New definition of suffering [26:10] Stress is a symptom of something deeper — don't be proud of your stress [26:20] You can get better without the stress [26:44] when you're stressed you're not present [26:52] Write down 2 - 3 most stressful thoughts.

Because I think China's nominal GDP growth has been overstated by a substantial amount because of its systematic failure to write down bad loans, I usually have subtracted 2 - 4 percentage points from the nominal GDP growth rate before I did my very rough calculation.

When I sat down last week to write out my goals for the year, the most audacious goals I could think of weren't career accomplishments...

As I wrote in my Personal Capital review after sitting down with CEO Bill Harris for 1.5 hours, I think the business model of leveraging technology to gather and manage assets is a no brainer.

AOD, I think people write things down as a rememberance of God having interacted with them, as a gift from God.

But then I don't worship hope, or pray to it in the hope that it will intervene in something or other, or believe that it inspired people to write down its thoughts and laws in a set of books that encapsulate truth for all eternity, or believe that it sent its son to redeem us from sin.

I like to think I can write a sentence now and then but then I read Luci Shaw, who effortlessly drops phrases like «the wide straps of dark clouds» or «silky shawl of air» or «rags of snow» and I just want to bow down.

This morning I wrote in my journal, «I am so bogged down by the opinions of others that when I wonder about my beliefs about God, I think about what others think I should believe.»

And they were able to read it in language written so that anyone, even, as Tyndale wrote, «the boy who driveth the plow,» could understand it.1 The Word became, as Ong says, silent.2 That silence has had profound influence on the way we think about religious language, but it is well to remember that when those translations into the vernacular were made, they were not written down in the language of print.

How do you think the first of our species discovered fire, music and any other early discovery that wasn't written down when the discovery was made?

I think that the Lord of Rings trilogy and The Hobbit is actually a super edited down version of all that Tolkein actually wrote.

The bulk of academic writing in my discipline is not really writing but a collection of marks on paper put down in response to similar marks put down in response to other marks put down in response to... The authors of these texts do not have a conception of writing as an art, or of the need for the imagery, inflection, and rhythm that hold open the mind of the reader so that the thought can slip past them into his soul.

In The Problem of God, John Courtney Murray wrote that the ecumenical question comes down to «what do you think of Nicea?»

I am no pastor, I am FG, but several, no, ten years ago I got up from a sleepless night and well, lets eves drop on what that young man of 39 was thinking and began to write down: At 3:00 a.m. I think or begin to pray: Father I praise you for.....

In short, though there are great gaps we wish had been filled in, such as the events of the childhood and youth of Jesus, the Bible contains every sort of thing which the people were interested in and thought important enough to write down.

One modern Moslem writer seems to think it involved no more than simply having the Koran, as it was already in existence in the memories of living men, copied down in written form.

Why do you think that writing your dreams down will convince anybody of anything?

@fred — the book of numbers is indeed referred as one of the books of moses, it wasn't written by him — there is actually (at least in the bible) 5 books of moses — in reality there is i think 25 books of moses — he didn't write them... oral traditions... they were write down in parts, then added together later.

And my point about the sun stopping, is that it was something that happened once, thousands of years ago, and it is certainly possible that no one wrote anything down about, with of course the exception that it was recorded in the Bible And when I said the latter, I mean the second of the two things you thought I might be talking about And I was asking who you meant when you said you didn't understand why he didn't kill everyone but Joshua.

Derp... fair question... you answer the question yourself (mostly): «Or did people many many years after the death of Jesus start writing down the things that John thought he remembered Jesus had said many years earlier but never actually bothered to write down?»

Or did people many many years after the death of Jesus start writing down the things that John thought he remembered Jesus had said many years earlier but never actually bothered to write down?

These prayers, written down ahead of time, often first spoken long before my birth, remind me to turn my thoughts toward the people I love, to forgive and ask forgiveness, to pray for my enemies, to plead for mercy for «the things I have done and the things I have left undone,» to remember the hungry and the suffering, to «bless the congregation of the poor,» to worship, to thank, to intercede, and to join with the whole community of saints who — this very hour, all around the world, and for centuries past and to come — are praying these prayers with me today.

Stimulated by a question as to the limits of the jurisdiction of the state, put by Dalberg, the great liberal prince - elector of Mayence, Humboldt wrote down his thoughts on this subject (1791).

It is equally easy and false to take a docetic view of revelation: to suppose that the content of the scriptures, for example, is, just simply, the thoughts of God, the human writers contributing no more than a pen for God to write them down with; or to imagine that a person or a group of people or an institution can, as it were, throw a switch from time to time and become a transmitter of revelation from an external divine source: a group of bishops, for instance, when assembled in council, or a pope when defining a dogma ex cathedra.

In that case, the story is an historical record of sorts, one that impressed the writer enough that he thought it should be written down for posterity.

The question of God isn't really that big of a deal when you see people willing to do * anything * in the name of what some other person wrote down thousands of years ago... especially if they can not think outside their religion.

After the completion of Science and the Modern World Whitehead's thought went through a long period (1925 - 1929) of even more rapid development and generated a series of metaphysical positions that were all abandoned or modified almost as quickly as they were written down — all, that is, except the final metaphysical position.

I actually started off writing a different book and wrote most of that book and toward the end of it I called a friend who is a great writing coach and he set me down and said, «OK, I think you're writing the wrong book, I think you've found that there's a symptom here and you're not dealing with the problem.»

Some fellows go on the trail for pleasure, But they have got this thing down wrong; If it hadn't been for these troublesome dogies, I never would thought of writing this song.

I think that a bible with only stories of what Jesus actually said and did, with a big foreword saying «here is the stuff that people wrote down, years after he died, about what Jesus said and did... would be a lot more meaningful and accurate than what we have now.

It's possible that as the story got told again and again over the years, and by the time someone wrote it down — by the time of Luke or Matthew — the writer was thinking of that person as a Roman, because in that writer's mind, it was the Romans who were there.

They are merely the THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS OF MEN that have been passed down through verbal and written traditions.

It was second nature to Luther to begin to write down his thoughts, so he started on a Treatise on Indulgences which led in turn to a new set of Theses for debate.

And reading the kind of nonsense like Brendle is writing down here, a CNN contributor no less, I think it is too late already.

We look down out modern noses at the people of the past and think that they were ignorant fools who knew nothing of God and His ways, but we, with all our research and writing, we now know better.

This was formerly thought to apply to the gospel of Matthew as we have it, but is probably a better description of some such sayings source as our «Q,» which Matthew may well have been the first to write down.

It is also sad for the person writing it, as they must have some of their own deep - seated emotional issues to warrant sitting down and thinking up hurtful things to say to other people they have never met.

Usually, it's right before I fall asleep and a thought will jolt me out of my bed so that I can write it down before it slips from my mind.