Sentences with phrase «say seek understanding»
All in all, I say seek understanding of the «real» problem (s) and from that understanding will come insights into solutions.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
«The late, great Stephen Covey (talk about world's best leaders) said that highly effective people «seek to understand before they seek to be understood.»
Beyond the No. 1 tip for first building a business before seeking investor dollars, Bulluck, Minnihan and Prabhu said budding entrepreneurs must understand all aspects of their business and be prepared to get grilled.
New York magazine made a similar case in a recent post, saying tens of millions of Facebook users «were served up or shared emotionally charged news stories about the candidates, because Facebook's sorting algorithm understood from experience that they were seeking such stories.»
Evans rings off some simple rules: don't buy anything you're pressured to buy or don't understand; ask the seller for their qualifications and track record, and if they don't give satisfactory answers, don't buy; don't invest more money than you can stand to lose, and never invest it all in one deal; avoid anything with an offshore element to it («That means your money's never coming back»); and seek out an unbiased second opinion, say, from your accountant or bank manager.
Facebook also says it will continue to seek answers «to understand exactly what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again.»
«We understand that increasing numbers of consumers are seeking authentic, genuine food experiences,» said Campbell Soup Co. (CPB) CEO Denise Morrison, «and we know that they are skeptical of the ability of large, long - established food companies to deliver them.»
Honda spokesman Chris Martin said the automaker has been seeking access to inspect the 2004 Odyssey to better understand what happened.
But if you seek to understand, you put yourself in another person's shoes,» he says.
«More and more institutional investors and asset management firms are seeking to better understand the environmental and social aspects of proxies,» said Sam Pierce, president of IW Financial.
Thus when late moderns come across, say, St. Anselm's famous phrase «fides quaerens intellectum» (faith seeking understanding), they are often predisposed to see it at best as slightly duplicitous, at worst as expressing a somewhat contemptible ambition: the aspiration of an irrational passion (fervent, tender, fierce) to the dignity of a rational conviction (cold, adamantine, calm).
unless we seek to understand the Hebrew thought of the day we can't really begin to understand what the N.T. is saying.
In any case, I will do you the honor of assuming that you are interested in hearing what those who speak such a language have to say, and I will also suppose that a faith which seeks understanding may sometimes find it.
santa, isn't it an arrogant and ignorant heart that keeps saying why does God allow this, without seeking to understand and refusing to understand that these things happen because we (mankind) allow them to happen.
I felt the need to share this because, as much as I understand your intentions when you say that we ought not seek out spirits or «pick a fight», but my belief is that we MUST be vigilant and spiritual aware at ALL times.
Scientists often say that they are no longer trying to understand nature; they seek only to make predictions that they can experimentally check.
When our conclusions regarding regarding troubling passages in the NT contradict the clear, positive statements out of the mouth of Jesus in John 3:16, 18, 5:24, and elsewhere, regarding eternal life being a simple matter of faith we need to keep seeking until our understanding of those passages agrees with that He said.
We can say that Whitehead sees his interpretation of the doctrine of God's being within the pattern of St. Augustine's «faith seeking understanding», provided by faith we do not understand the acceptance of dogma; but the religious intuition born out of the impact of Jesus upon the world.
Furthermore, it could also be argued that when Paul says the natural man «does not» receive the things of the Spirit of God, «nor can he know them,» he is not referring to an inherent inability to do so, but rather to an antagonistic mindset that refuses to seek the truth and understand these things.
Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.
Perhaps I'm being unfair having no other experience with his writings, but I dare say that he, as a writer seeks to clearly communicate his thoughts and ideas so that his readers understand him without the need to bring their own interpretations to his text.
But one can sympathize with Nuland when he says of himself, «The conditions of my illness may not permit me to «die well» or with any of the dignity we so optimistically seek, but within the limits of my ability to control, I will not die later than I should for the senseless reason that a highly skilled technological physician does not understand who I am.»»
But I want to be careful to say that just because we seek to understand our own worldview and the worldview of the people in biblical times, this does not mean that we are supposed to adopt the worldview of the people in biblical times.
I thought it was St. Francis who said it, but I just googled it, and it turns out it was Stephen Covey who said, «Seek first to understand, then to be understood.»
But evangelicals are included in the «others»; no less than liberals they seek to understand Scripture according to the particular historical contexts in which biblical texts were written ¯ with the one difference being that they consider themselves bound to receive what they conclude the text to say as authoritative rather than open to improvement.
Seeking discord, and searching for its interpretation, but no one knows its true meanings except Allah, and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: «We believe in it; the whole of it is from our Lord»; and none will grasp the Message except men of understanding.
It is often said that science and religion seek to answer different questions; that science is interested in answering the «what» or the «how» questions whereas religion seeks to understand the «why».
You said — «I'm sure you'll agree that it's always best to first seek to understand what the author was saying prior to attempting to criticize it, right?»
Shadowflash, I don't recall your response to any of my posts... I usually do recall them... But I do agree with one thing you said... «human mind hates being wrong» But I see it differently then you do... I see human mind and human understanding being the stumbling block and point of pride, which prevents man from seeing the reality of his real condition, and the need to humble himself in order to be able to see himself as he is, and seek the help of His Creator without whom he is a living, moving shell, yet, without the vital part of him being alive, which would make him complete.
I'm sure you'll agree that it's always best to first seek to understand what the author was saying prior to attempting to criticize it, right?
LOL The fact that word meanings have changed over the years is PRECISELY why interpreters seek to understand what the author was trying to say using archeology, word study, etc...
@hippypoet» people you mentioned are those who interpret only» @Chad «So interpretation doesn't seek to understand what the author was trying to say?
Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty about living out that truth in the world, between faith as God's gift and understanding as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything about the diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.
The New Quest - some of whose original practitioners are among the members of the Jesus Seminar - sought to recover from Jesus» sayings and parables his «understanding of existence,» detached from any particular claims about his life and actions.
He goes on to say, «After five years of marriage if a husband has failed to understand or seek help for the major causes of disharmony, either he doesn't understand what genuine love is, or has chosen to ignore God's command to shepherd his family wisely.»
I propose that since Jesus reveals the Father to us, that since Jesus is the exact representation of God, that since Jesus says that if we have seen Him, we have seen the Father, that rather than seek to understand Jesus in light of the God of the Old Testament, we seek to understand God in the Old Testament in light of Jesus.
Through the long centuries in which God was seeking to prepare the way for the «incarnation» God was seeking men who would willingly respond to «the light which lighteth every man» and slowly was finding some in the small minority of God's «chosen people» who were struggling to understand what God's Spirit, respecting their free will, was trying to say through them.
Through the long centuries in which God was seeking to prepare the way for the «incarnation» — the coming in human flesh of Himself through the «Word,» the self - expression of Himself in the creation of the cosmos — He was seeking men who would willingly respond to «the light which lighteth every man» and slowly was finding some in the small minority of His «chosen people» who were struggling to understand what His Spirit, respecting their free will, was trying to say through them.
In searching for a worthy response, Rollins says he is drawn to Christian mystics like Meister Ekhart, «for while they did not embrace total silence, they balked at the presumption of those who would seek to colonize the name «God» with concepts... By speaking with wounded words of their wounded Christ, these mystics helped to develop, not a distinct religious tradition, but rather a way of engaging with and understanding already existing religious traditions: seeing them as a loving response to God rather than a way of defining God.»
«We are seeking feedback on all of these potential changes, as well as feedback and evidence on consumer use and understanding of allergen labelling,» said FSANZ.
«We understand the impact that this announcement will have on the Jewish community and the decision has only been taken after every effort to seek a reversal of Sanitarium's decision has been rejected,» Kosher Australia said.
However, the suppliers knew there were risks involved in unilaterally switching to ultra concentrates because of the consumer confusion, and sought to minimise the risks by using market intelligence and other information they obtained from Woolworths, without having to resort to entering into an arrangement or understanding, Justice Wigney said.
One of the articles I linked to above talks about how some athletes sought out help, but that they left with a feeling that the counselors didn't really understand what they were saying, because they weren't athletes or weren't around athletics programs.
NYC Councilmember Corey Johnson said, «While the federal government seeks to pit the business community against the environment, New York understands that it's not only possible but beneficial for companies to pair good paying jobs with sustainable practices.
«We don't need anyone or group of persons to divide us by interpreting what somebody said for us to understand, as our brothers sought to do to please their paymasters.
«The trash fee, I understand it's not popular, and there are many who say we should eliminate it, but again it's a balancing act,» said Mayor Kathy Sheehan, who is seeking reelection.
Speaking with newsmen in Ikirun, Adeoye said the free bus service initiative of Oduoye is an innovation in Ikirun and one that has positively projected Oduoye as a man who understands the pains of the people he seeks to represent.
We need a long - term, multi-agency approach to knife crime which seeks to understand and prevent its underlying causes, says Sarah Jones
Feigning surprise and seeking to blame the Seneca Nation for understanding and following the Compact to the letter is nothing more than an attempt at distraction from the truth,» he said.
«My understanding was that (Kelly) wanted Joe to be an advocate — his eyes and ears in the governor's office,» Howe said, noting that the company at the time was seeking state approval for a power purchase agreement that was key to the Orange County project's success.