Sentences with phrase «on insignificant things»

You think they use Twitter without realizing that the media is going to report on every insignificant thing they say?

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It's often seemingly insignificant things that make the biggest impact on employee satisfaction and engagement — for better and for worse.

The one thing she latched on to was an insignificant point I only mentioned in passing.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

Scipio turns his eyes back to the earth, and Africanus exhorts him to see how insignificant worldly glory is in comparison to the celestial realms, or even to the vast uninhabitable regions of the globe, or to the unimaginable immensity of the Great Year of the cosmic aeon, and then tells him to fix his mind always on heavenly things, to ignore earthly rewards and earthly censure alike, and to be guided only by virtue.

But this is what gets me: they are judged for things that don't matter... the small insignificant things we like to focus on because they are easy to identify, quantify and isolate.

Because after six years of patience from Arsene Wenger and a not insignificant amount of time spent on the treatment table, the best thing he arguably ever did for the club was leave for what now looks a ridiculous waste of # 35million for Liverpool.

Now on to more important things (because truth be told, this really is an insignificant issue in the scheme of things).

These may seem like insignificant little things but they're actually big steps on the road to crawling, sitting, standing and walking.

Yes — this may be news for some Ghanaians because they've not had exposure to such things, but seriously, all that this project will do; is to make movement a little easier, and perhaps an insignificant impact on productivity.

According to Matthäus Willeit of MedUni Vienna's Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, who is organising the Dopamine conference together with Harald Sitte, «excessive dopamine release at the wrong moment can cause insignificant things to take on an unwarranted significance.

In this view, not only is our planet one among many, but even our entire universe is insignificant on the cosmic scale of things.

The little things in life have more power to change the value of my life than all the fancy gadgets or trendy clothes that money can buy: the passing smile of a stranger; a cold mineral water on a hot day; an «I love you» note waiting for me in an unexpected place; and other seemingly insignificant experiences.

Keeping communication open is the best way to keep your relationship alive, as living apart means that you're missing out on all the small details of each other's lives — and while they seem insignificant, the normal things couples discuss on a day - to - day basis actually bond you.

Life and time is precious and we shouldn't waste our efforts on complaining insignificant things.

, cheating (it's harder to resist someone you're finally attracted to or who makes you feel desired), nitpicking (the unhappy partner gets naggy and picks on the most insignificant things), pulling away (both physical and emotional distance from partner), lack of respect (insulting a partner in public or private, constantly comparing them to others), and lack of affection (no physical contact or human touch, no proximity).

Based on a poem by US author Ron Koertge, the film is dryly funny, as it explores the little and special moments of communication between a father and child and shows how seemingly insignificant things can actually carry great importance.

Seemingly insignificant things can create liability, such as bumping into someone on the sidewalk.

Next, capital gains are more of a stock fund thing than a bond fund thing, so capital gains distributions on bond funds are insignificant.

Sometimes they do key in on seemingly random, insignificant things and decide that they're scary based on association with something else that happened at the same time.

It's a game of iterations, where even the most insignificant player action can result in a new ending, and the whole thing has the feeling that it's a practical joke on gaming completionists.

Things in a Room: An Ethnography of the Insignificant will be on show at the Michael Hoppen Gallery until 12 April 2017.

Moser's efforts to create a new modern style of decoration were ultimately insignificant in the face of the more pressing need to create a fundamentally modern man, who «concentrates his powers of invention on other things.»

I was going to look at the whole thing now but the post has been getting very long so for now I'll just focus on the ideas that the current warming is insignificant on geological timescales, and that warming is good anyway.

You set up false dilemmas (fight denialists OR effect change) to make it look like we can't do more than one thing at a time, then apply spin and misrepresentations («[denialists] are of a very insignificant nature» (note who's listening to them) «more effort is being expended now on a few denalists than warranted» (note: unsubstantiated assertion), «Is the question about a few snakes biting a few people or doing far more» (shorter: «a few snake bites are OK!»)-RRB-

Looking at the broad picture, its really fantastic that life even exists on the planet, and while humans might feel like small gods wielding the power of fossil fuels, we really are quite insignificant and vulnurable, like all living things on this planet.

You can see it in the various English phrases that capture a de haut en bas relationship: we «look down on» lesser people, and may well be given «oversight» over them, and if things are truly insignificant to us we are likely to «overlook» them.

Seemingly insignificant things can create liability, such as bumping into someone on the sidewalk.

These things might seem insignificant, but when you do these things on a consistent basis, that's when you really start to see their improvement.