Sentences with phrase «ordinary working life»

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-- Rana Florida is CEO of Creative Class Group, and author of Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

For Schickel, that conservative language is found in the ordinary, everyday realities, a reflection of his belief that «the sacramental life of the Church is a recapitulation of the daily rituals of eating and drinking, working and resting, gathering and dispersing.»

In 1973 I met him again in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a broken man, living, he said, on social security, and bitter about what he called the greed and duplicity of men who had brought down his life's work and that of thousands of ordinary people.

If I could leave you with one final passage of Scripture, my little sisters, here is it: «So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going - to - work and walking - around life — and place it before God as an offering.

Ordinary life enriches my work.

He comes from a long tradition of Christians working to improve the lives of ordinary people, particularly the less fortunate among us.

Left on our own, we are, in most ordinary matters, neither heroically righteous nor heroically evil nor even heroically ambiguous; we simply drift — from at least a theoretical belief in God's overriding sovereignty in our lives, to a working pragmatism which simply assumes that the little decisions are ours to make.

I show up here with intention and I try to notice my own life a bit more, I consecrate the ordinary work.

Others of his shorter works, which are also published as Faith Pamphlets, and many as yet unpublished gems from his ordinary parish newsletters, reveal the effectiveness of this living vision of Christian truth - simultaneously doctrinal, moral, spiritual and practical.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

I didn't need this weird demarcation between «sacred work» and «secular work» — rather all of my life, seen and unseen, celebrated and uncelebrated, radical and utterly ordinary — all of it was a place to meet with God and to be transformed.

There has to be a seamlessness to our lives, a oneness so that there isn't ordinary work vs. holy work: it's all together beautiful.

I'll pray these words from our brother Paul over you, too, from his letter to the Romans: «Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going - to - work and walking - around life — and place it before God as an offering.

Readers of Al - Jumuah deal pretty ordinarily with the ordinary vexations of family life in America: How to stay connected with your kids, how to raise good kids who know the value of study and hard work, how to improve a marriage, all these from a Muslim perspective are explored, more or less in the same way they are examined in a Christian family magazine.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

Such antimodern models of «critical traditionality» come out of the life experience of ordinary people in India and provide working examples of tolerance and pluralism not by ejecting religio - cultural particularities but by utilizing them for the good of all.

Yet we must admit that through their work we have learned to take very seriously the total biblical story, reading with deeper insight the truths which are there stated not in propositions but in the events of history and in the response made to those events in the experience of men and women immersed in the ordinary affairs of daily life.

Baudelaire writes in Edgar Poe, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works, 1852), «I am told that he did not drink like an ordinary toper, but like a savage, with an altogether American energy and fear of wasting a minute, as though he were accomplishing an act of murder, as though there was something inside him that he had to kill, «a worm that would not die.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

Some people say God's call is not like a thunderbolt, that He works through ordinary means, (which He usually does in my life), but the initial call was pretty sensational.

Most of them came to their call through some phase of their ordinary work - a-day life.

Electrical Trades Union state secretary Troy Gray said demand for a Senate inquiry was coming from ordinary workers in factories, shops, offices and service providers, where «powerless and voiceless Australians spend their working lives, our of sight from the political and corporate elite».

Lots of people have spoken at EU events I've attended have said they want to have a conversation about how we can try and have get a Europe that look like it works a bit better for ordinary citizens — not the rich guys in suits zooming about doing the deals but on things that make a difference to their lives like better rights at work.

If you're from an ordinary working class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise.

Through my work I have learnt how rich and fascinating the lives of ordinary people can be.

«If you're from an ordinary working class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise,» she said.

For ordinary working families - the aspirational majority — who work hard, pay their taxes, who want to get on and not just get by, but who are working harder for less as the cost of living keeps on rising.

Britain needed a Budget for jobs and growth but we got cash for the rich and a dose of austerity for ordinary people who've worked and saved all their lives in the hope of enjoying a comfortable retirement.

The wage board, meeting Monday in Albany, has heard dozens of workers say they struggle to pay ordinary living expenses such as rent, utilities and transportation at the current minimum, often with fluctuating and part - time work schedules.

The ordinary Ghanaian needs education, clean water, affordable and accessible health care, opportunities to work and earn a decent living and take care of their families, governance without corruption; peace and stability; a safe and clean environment; a justice system that works, nothing fancy, nothing complex.

It seems to go against what the Prime Minister said in her very first words from Number Ten; fighting for ordinary families (or the «mainstream» as she called them today), who work around the clock but worry about the cost of living.

«Anger has been fuelled further by a perception that ordinary citizens are subject to restrictions in their own working lives which were not being applied in the same way to MPs, and by the reluctance of the House of Commons as a whole to recognise the need for reform until forced to do so.»

The Conservatives must reward ordinary hard working voters who take responsibility for their own lives.

He counterposed the «powerful interests» and the very wealthy with ordinary «working people» who are confronted with falling living standards and unequal opportunities.

The truth, of course, is that the main impact of this bill will be to make life much more difficult for millions of ordinary families, whether they are surviving on meagre benefits or relying on tax credits to make work pay.

The EPI found that those losing hot lunches would include 100,000 from families living in relative poverty, and 667,000 from those it defined as coming from «ordinary working families» of the kind that Theresa May has said she wants to help.

It also follows Theresa May's reference to «life being much harder» for «an ordinary working class family» than «many people in Westminster realise.»

Gigapixel imaging can reveal a surprising range of animal and plant species in the ordinary and sometimes extraordinary settings in which we live, learn and work.

I am a simple and ordinary man, work and live in Osaka, Japan.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

The simple pleasures of a twisty plot work in concert with Soderbergh's fascination with the visual textures of ordinary human spaces, resulting in a film that feels lived - in, even at its most cornily artificial.

Iranian in origin and with an interest in Iranian cinema, Bahrani's work shows a great tendency toward naturalism and the observation of ordinary life, although he never rejects fiction in favor of realism and it is difficult to describe his movies as down to earth takes on reality.

It marks something of a departure for director Mike Leigh; his films typically chronicle the lives of ordinary, working - class people in the present day, although he has visited the past on two occasions before, 1999's Gilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy - Turvy and 2004's Vera Drake, the fictional story of an abortionist in 1950s London.

Joel Edgerton stars in this quiet, restrained real - life drama from director Jeff Nichols as Richard Loving, an ordinary working - class white man who found himself at the centre of a legal storm when he married his African American wife, Mildred (Ruth Negga), in 1950s Virginia.

The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary Into the Extraordinary, by Mark Sanborn

As was true for teachers, the other employees who live but don't work in the district tend to look pretty much like ordinary citizens in their turnout rates.

A corollary issue is whether teachers who live in a district where they don't work vote at higher rates than ordinary citizens do.

In every district with available data, and for all three sets of elections, other district employees who live and work in their districts vote at substantially higher rates than ordinary citizens do — rates that, on average, are just a shade lower than those of teachers who live and work in the district.

One reads this book with a sense of disbelief that men and women who led such privileged lives could have been so stupid and hateful, could have thought themselves revolutionaries acting on behalf of «the people» when they had nothing but contempt for ordinary working people.

Lawrence Ingvarson: I mean that a professional community is about the way in which staff members work together normally, it's the habitual ways of working, it's the ordinary way of life.