Sentences with phrase «often accept things»

With this approach, cats often accept things that they didn't accept initially.

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As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

S.Lewis» «I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: «I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.»

Such short - term therapy aims not at deep underlying problems, but at helping the person do things that will improve his chances of achieving productive sobriety — things such as accepting the fact that he is an alcoholic, learning how to face and handle his fears and resentments constructively, changing his ways of relating so that the guilt - isolation - anger spiral is not triggered so often.

Often, the journey of figure out our beliefs for ourselves starts with going back to the very beginning, abandoning the things we accepted as true and rebuilding from the ground up.

It often pretends to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

Since a «believer» isn't questioning things or those of others, they often fail to see the importance of knowing the details that they just accept.

One of the things that we find very difficult to accept is that it often hurts to get better.

Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at home in an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.

The thing that disappoints me about conservative Christianity is that you are often expected to accept your beliefs as a «package deal» and you are seen as weird if you think differently on certain points.

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: «I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.»

I don't agree with Ellul that accepting mediated security is a repudiation of our security in Christ, God often provides for his people indirectly; but I do think that fear / panic at the loss of these means is a repudiation of our trust / faith in God to provide either temporal or Eternal security for us, whichever he sees fit in his grand scheme of things.

When the practice of sex - change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would often remind its advocating psychiatrists that with other patients, alcoholics in particular, they would quote the Serenity Prayer, «God, give me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage....

It was for «sinners,» for those who — mostly — tried their best to do the right thing, often failed, but accepted the forgiveness of God and of others, forgave others and themselves, and started over.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

It doesn't suddenly mean that Arsenal can do the same thing because quite often the opposition will accept a draw against us.

Although we must accept that different people have different opinions but there are often things that are a bit obvious.

I don't think being realistic and seeing things for what they are can be seen as being negative.I accept that luck often plays a part but I also believe that you make your own luck.You say, correctly, «early in the season all our shots went in» — but yesterday we weren't taking shots!

Would it be better to not throw away what you already have with the parent of your child, accept that «people grow and change and often in different directions,» and challenge yourself to do things differently?

The MOST important thing is that it is often accepted when everything else fails.

When the only thing offered is healthy, kids accept it, eat it and often discover they like it.

The Columbia astronomy department, she says, often accepts students who, like Hummels, did other things before settling on a Ph.D. in astronomy.

In Germany, in the late 1800s, [an] incredible number of children were dying often of diarrhea and Escherich had this radical idea that was called the germ theory of disease — that bacteria of all things can make you sick and very few people really accepted this at that time, but Escherich thought that this was the best way to understand why these children were dying.

The most terrifying thing is too accept oneself completely... Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.

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Little things, those men often accept as a due often are the key to her heart, and her life.

It's a hard thing to balance, because elements like violent gameplay, high body counts, health pack healing, constant enemy chatter, collectables etc. add a fantastical underpinning that is inherently unrealistic, yet players often accept them as a given.

But I wanted to write this article to show that it isn't always this personal thing against self - publishers, generally it is a matter of volume control and unfortunately there isn't many ways to curb that besides not accepting requests (a blogger might try to set limits to say books with only a four star or above rating, etc, but often I find many bloggers experience authors and companies ignoring those guidelines so more drastic measures are taken).

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

In our world of serving homeless animals, accepting the things we can not change often feels like it takes more courage than changing the things we can.

They can roam, run off to find a mate, refuse to recall, find everything and everybody more interesting than you, pull on the lead, forget the simplest commands, jump on people, throw tantrums over things they were previously happy to accept e.g. grooming, and often get told off by «mature» older dogs.

On a console I can accept this and get over it, but there seems to be so many things forced on users that I often wonder if they even beta these things.

That said, people who claim to have discovered such things are often wrong; most seminal discoveries are reluctantly accepted, even by their discoverers.

As one CMO put it to me without irony, «Success in a large law firm is all about credibility, which means accepting that we don't often do things the right way, we do them our partners» way, but after about a year of serving their needs you should have built up enough credibility to gently make suggestions, most of which they'll discard, but to survive you can't try to do too much too quickly.»

Apologizing is often the first thing we are taught as children, so it is hard to say anything bad about forgiveness when it's something we all subconsciously understand and accept as the norm.

My clinical perspective combines attachment and trauma - informed approaches with the acknowledgement that the most healing thing is often just being heard and accepted.

These perspectives, which have informed distinct bodies of research in positive mental health, are less obvious in the literature relating to poor mental health, where items measuring affect (feeling happy / sad) are often combined with items measuring psychological functioning (playing a useful part in things, making decisions)[4] in the same scales, suggesting that poor mental health at least is accepted as involving limitations in both eudaimonic and hedonic well - being [5 — 7].