Sentences with phrase «something about being human»

«What opportunity is this child offering me to teach and learn something about being human, both to myself and their peers?»

Homemade creating teaches us something about being human that purchasing everything from someone else simply can't teach.

Not exact matches

If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.

There is something powerful about having a live conversation with another human being.

If there's something insane about a CEO who thinks his company's mission is more important than any accomplishment in all of human history — indeed, in all of fish history — there's also something irresistible.

There is something distinctly human about off - the - cuff remarks, and something distinctly robotic about perfectly planned and choreographed behavior.

When you believe that people are human beings first and worker bees second, you say something about their worth.

When you talk about an actual research project, often it starts as something more technologically oriented, but as you build deeper partnerships, you find that some of the problems they're really struggling with are human problems.

«There's something very human about the tablet that isn't human about the laptop,» Bansal says.

To understand why he doesn't listen to them, it's helpful to know something else about Thiel: He is deeply invested, philosophically and financially, in the idea of extreme human life extension.

A person who sees a problem is a Human Being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.

While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.

«There is something about building relationships and working with people on Capitol Hill that requires human nuance, and many companies won't just leave this to a machine,» she says.

There's something about the rawness of a human brain at 4 in the morning that steeps any concern in a cocktail of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

We all seek feedback — it's a basic requirement of all humans, from a toddler asking his parents for something, to a team leader asking the CEO about the company's latest business plans.

There's something about it that seems forced: «It's like a scene in «Aliens» where they try to imagine how humans act.

«I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact,» he told CNBC.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, when you start to think about it, business quality usually counts on something more than whether you crossed the T in some old lease or something and the human quality of the management who are going to stay are very important.

«One thing that excites me about building a company is the human experience of making something out of nothing together,» our co-founder and CEO Walter recently wrote in a company email.

There is something unique about humans, thought.

I believe this wise and nuanced document says something true about human nature; I'm afraid Mr. Smalling might label it «common bigotry.»

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

It's about love, something we all as humans know and feel.

«Isn't there something special, perhaps even divine, about the human soul?»

That much is a fact about human behaviour â $ «we choose to like or dislike something â $ «and this in turn develops our tastes and restrictions (same could be said for food).

For prisoners offered to be taken away from the violent guards, criminals, murderers, rapists and put into a solitary confinement to be nearly always viewed as punishment says something about humans.

Or was that something about the human body?

I tried to say something about how critical religion is in human relations earlier but it got marked as abuse... I will try one more time in a condensed form.

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

There is something about human beings that is above and beyond the animal instincts that program them to live in their environment.

The point is that something frames your way of thinking about the world and how humans should and should not behave and interact with each other.

It tells us that that the truth about human sexuality is something that ultimately offers genuine freedom to the homosexual person, helping him to escape the slavery to his passions that resulted from the misuse of his free will.

It is not something that can be overcome just by thinking enlightened thoughts about the goodness and beauty of the human body.

It remembered and taught what Jesus had said about God and man, about the kingdom of God, about human moral responsibility, and the like, because it was primarily concerned with something else.

It was recognized fairly quickly that Gödel's Theorem might have something to say about whether the human mind is just a computer» Gödel himself was firmly convinced that it is not.

I think the least he could have done is pass out a few newsletters, or maybe even talk to another human about updating his plan or something.

When sexuality gets framed as something to repress or feed, something that needs to be reigned in or fanned into flame, we're seeing it as merely an appetite, a set of biological compulsions, and we've lost something fundamentally human about ourselves.

Atheism takes for many something away that is essential to the fabric of human life and we have to come to some decisions about what is true, what is lovely and what is just and kind.

Eastern theology acknowledges that there's something drastically wrong, even evil, about human beings (just not in the same sense as the Western Church), and it's because of Jesus» work as the «true human'that humanity may come closer to this vision.

While it may be possible to argue about something that binds all humans together in an essential oneness, one must not lose sight of the reality that it is precisely in the in - betweenness of human beings that the issue regarding the lack of peace and the necessity for reconciliation ought to be located.

Finally, the fact that religion - at least in the West - learned something about human rights from democratic experience does not mean that «human rights is not a religious idea,» as Schlesinger dogmatically asserts.

Nobody wants to be called an extremist, but there is undeniably something extreme about human excellence.

So we're at the place where we can say a couple - four things from the existential side of the problem of evil: [1] from the perspective that pain exists, and we perceive it, we as human beings (you could say «people») have an urge to do something about it when we see it.

I have never met one human being who does not have something «weird» about them.

Furthermore, since even these items that might indeed be susceptible of generalization are realized differently in different types of entities, there is always something peculiarly human about their mode of realization in human occurrences.

Yet there is also something positive about this invitation to readers to appreciate the human frailties of clerical detectives.

Even religions which teach that humans are basically good still recognize that we occassionally sin, and something must be done about this sin.

A possible ecumenical appeal of the dogma is that it teaches us something about human freedom.

In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.

We know through the psychological clinics something more about the mechanisms which operate when the human spirit is anxious and self - protective.