Sentences with phrase «rather than a vision»

While working on Bowrain (2010), a large - scale installation involving hundreds of pieces of wood wired together, I realized that my aesthetic is pretty close to the Groobees»: visual decisions arise out of necessity or limitation, rather than vision.

As a result, «Unmonumental» and «Younger Than Jesus,» while containing good work, ended up as confused, watered - down hodgepodges that reflected compromise and consensus rather than vision.

The Facebook profile assembles a collection of text and real - world photos into a fixed set of poses, making it more of a snapshot of the offline you ported into the digital realm rather than a vision of you purposefully designed for the Internet.

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Although no - car households are becoming slightly more common, a 2016 Strategic Vision Study found that millennials would still rather own a car than rely on ride - hailing services.

But to make matters worse, Amazon's launch video focused a ton on the communication features at the core of Nucleus» vision, rather than the e-commerce, smart - home or entertainment capabilities that the Echo Show also possesses.

The robot's vision can now «read» stop signs (rather than rely on a map to plot them out) and differentiate between hundreds of objects in real time.

«The books that we can expect to see — rather than books about strategy and big things like vision or corporate culture — will be clearly and explicitly aimed at the individual.

As you can tell by the concept's general boxy shape and fairly dull appearance, Honda is trying to showcase a vision for the future of transportation rather than automotive design with its concept.

Based on the best - selling novel by Ayn Rand, «The Fountainhead» tells the story of Howard Roark, an architect who prefers to struggle rather than compromise his artistic vision.

These visions aren't to say that one scenario is better than the other, but rather to encourage organizations to consider what they would do if the workforce looked different and how they would adjust their strategies to stay relevant and successful.

He had a vision of a new type of store — a destination rather than simply a repository for product.

Elevating the conversation from day - to - day responsibilities to big - picture vision will help potential candidates see the role as an opportunity to be a part of something truly meaningful, rather than just another paycheck.

Levie said the phases represent a general vision of where things are headed for Box, rather than specific plans that are set in stone.

Salesforce did this brilliantly with its «No Software» logo that evangelized the company's underlying vision of simple, inexpensive, cloud - based services rather than focusing on what its product actually does.

Rather than taking a typical allocation of equally splitting hires into sales, marketing, client support, engineering, etc., for its mobile email app (it's free for consumers, by the way), it prioritized innovation and the development of its vision.

Why don't we put a greater focus on higher - order purpose or vision, rather than short - term financial returns?

Microsoft, on the other hand, is taking a very Microsoft - centric approach — the company is doing what it would like best, or trying to institute its own vision, rather than simply delivering what people are asking for.

«I like this vision very much, because it's a world in which there are multiple AIs, which to me is similar to the world we live in,» says Reid, pointing out that when you need help with plumbing, you seek it from a plumber rather than a generalist.

Such a vision would require that SolarCity begin handling complete re-roofing jobs, rather than simply installing solar panels.

But such trust and confidence often create blind spots in one's vision and leads a person to search locally rather than globally for business partners and economic resources.

Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late.

When BP rebranded, it created a film for employees that broke the conventions of the form by having rank - and - file employees, rather than managers, explain the brand vision.

He surveys Catholic literature from the end of Vatican II to the present and finds dynamic writers with «personal visions of faith fueled by idiosyncratic passion rather than orthodoxy.»

In Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell, the majority explicitly endorsed the idea that the interpretation of the Constitution should reflect «the vision of our time» rather than the intent of the framers.

The Vision document has four main elements: equipping children academically and emotionally for the world; providing places of healing for children who have mental health problems or who've suffered bad experiences; providing a welcoming place for all rather than just Christians, and; upholding the dignity and respect of each individual, who is made by God.

rather than seeing these as an imposed set of rules, we can see these as a benediction, empowering us to be better... a bit like visions, rules can make failures of us, where as with a benediction we are not bound, but free to become more human.

And he did so based on the belief that this is the New Testament vision: a family «built around the quality of relationships shared by the members of God's kingdom rather than blood ties.»

Rather than a biologistic vision, he offered a voluntaristic one focused on the energy of creative minorities and exceptional individuals.

The very notion that a moral vision should be embodied in community life and relational obligations, rather than in the choices of any given individual, is a direct challenge to the ethic of expressive individualism that animates our popular culture.

But he interests himself in their vision of the past rather than in the question of the conformity of their vision to an objective past event.

«But we are still under the yoke of bondage because we all come to the community with visions of what it should be rather than seeing what it actually is.»

This is my vision but I have to stress that it makes more sense when viewed through the lens of panentheism rather than through creation ex-nihilo with God specially creating individual souls for each human being.

What I am calling the «core groups,» those actually trying to live a new vision, give hope in that they are actually working out a new balance of impulse and control, energy and discipline, rather than abandoning all control and discipline.

Elon Musk can't save the world any more than Iron Man can, but his vision to make technology serve us rather than the enslave us is something we can all get on board with.

In voluntary organizations, vision is what motivates; the fundamental management procedure must be management by vision rather than by objective.

If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations, in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were in the nature of visions rather than of bodily seeing, this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an external reality.

It is true that spiritual aridity is widespread in many sectors of our society, but if we look more closely we will see that rather than a dearth there is a superabundance of competing visions.

Would the vision of the leaders assembled at the Summit affirming their faith in globalization becoming benevolent in which economic and technological progress distributed to unite rather than divide the community is a reality or just plain rhetoric?

We need stories that are chosen because of the largeness of their vision, rather than because of the accuracy of their parts.

A spirituality of creative compassion — no spiritualized spirituality, this, but a way of life and a wisdom wherein we might live shared visions of a «we» rather than a «me» consciousness.

This is an infinite which expresses itself in a narrative vision, not a predetermined narrative nor one which intends to include only a particular kind of people or a particular reality, but a story which is much more open than the old story used to be — a story, indeed, with many strands rather than with one, and a story which is not going to any predetermined place but which is constantly open to the best possibility that is relevant for it.

The new naturalism and science of the 17th century initially had the effect of restoring the vision of nature as good, orderly and benign — the arena of the manifestation of God's divine reason, rather than of the devil's malice.

But the priestly temper is unlikely to look beyond the literal Bible as a source of vision, just as a priestly theology is incapable of envisioning a theology grounded in the sacrificial Christ rather than in the Creator God.

In our reach for cultural respectability and power, we oldline Protestants have acquiesced in the golden - calf vision of Christendom, becoming warp and woof of the reigning political and social fabric rather than becoming weavers of a new kingdom community.

The stewardship approach, with its mandate of thrift within the present system, rather than a recognition of that system's injustice, lacks a vision of a new and different economic order.

The trouble with many conventional pictures of heaven is that they describe eternal life as a vapid and self - centered perpetual enjoyment rather than, as in Dante's Divine Comedy, a rejoicing in the vision of God.

Paul's vision is that when Christians are joined together they find strength rather than distress.

Confessional postmodernism, with its emphasis on images and narrative — which are more evocative and efficacious than concepts, touching deeper recesses of our psyches — fleshes out what tends to be rather abstract in the process - relational vision which, on the other hand, provides the former with a cosmological complement.

Markos argues that this Christian humanist vision that God's revelation answers our highest aspirations has suffered since the Puritans portrayed heaven as an escape from earth rather than as the redemption of creation.

When we get wrapped up in «the vision» we tend to forget about the people who are involved — we bcome more institutional rather than loving.