If I'm
struck by an idea or observation I take it back to my team to see what my staff can implement.
Two years ago, Hawk was
struck by the idea of a video game with a skateboard controller.
Jeff read this from his viewpoint as a church planter and was
struck by the idea that the conversation needs to be simpler:
I've also been
struck by the idea that many American evangelical missionaries and missiologists, and perhaps the Apostle Paul himself, would be in danger of dismissal if they taught at Wheaton College, since many of us arguably have been guilty of the very thing Wheaton College is sanctioning.
Then I was
struck by the idea of finding out whether any of my mum - mates would be interested in buying something too.
I've been
struck by the idea of promoting learning rather than mastery for students and adults.
We've never been
struck by the idea of big, heavy SUVs with ludicrous amounts of power, but the 2012 Mercedes - Benz ML63 AMG could change our opinions.
The dabbling poet and short story writer, who'd been raised in the same mining village as D H Lawrence, and who had made his living in the oil industry, broadcasting, banking, and as an international management consultant in fields ranging from parliaments to law enforcement, suddenly found
himself struck by the idea that this fascinating country — in such a complex state of temporal and national limbo — would make an extraordinary setting for a crime thriller.
That's when I was
struck by the idea of a budget.
Sun Xun was
struck by the idea that official Chinese accounts of the past have many parallels to the dioramas in the Natural History Museum.
He was
struck by the idea that gay men, who were also persecuted in the Holocaust, would post photos of themselves at such a place.
Alexander Calder was inspired to produce his famous mobiles, examples of which Dickinson is exhibiting, after a 1930 visit to Mondrian's studio, where he was
struck by the idea of setting Mondrian's bold rectangles in motion.
Watching a lecture by the Physicist Lawrence Krauss, I was
struck by the idea that in 100 billion years, there will be no cosmic microwave background and you will look out into the sky with a telescope and only see our galaxy (all other galaxies now being so far beyond the «horizon» as to be undetectable).
As I witnessed miracle after miracle in the therapeutic realm of play and relationship, I was
struck by the idea of writing a novel to show the power of a therapeutic alliance and the healing nature of play.
Not exact matches
The post lists 10 easy activities you can engage in to increase your happiness and, reading it, you're
struck by the fact that some of the
ideas are so simple you could do them right now while sitting at your desk.
When a teammate was
struck by the «good
idea fairy» and said something like, «Hey, we should do «X»!»
The
idea for that article emerged because we were
struck by how many women are involved in philanthropy at a high level — and equally
struck by how little attention they tend to receive.
«The marketplace for new
ideas has been corrupted
by software patents used as destructive weapons,» the story's authors wrote, noting that last year, for the first time, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and intellectual property than on research and development, a
striking fact that sharply illustrates how incentives have become skewed in the tech industry.
In the case of the binary trading, except high or low options, the
strike prices are set
by the broker and even if you have a fair
idea on how an underlying asset will behave, you can not place an order to be executed at certain price points.
My own preference is for number one simply because there are a number of thinkers whose
ideas, though not directly influenced
by the Chicago School or Whitehead and Hartshorne, yet bear such a
striking family resemblance that they merit classification in the process school.
The biblical
idea of covenant embraced
by earlier Americans is something deeper and more profound and more binding than a contract; it also engages another party, a party who transcends the agreements that we
strike among ourselves.
If Mays is correct, one must be
struck by the paucity of Whitehead's
ideas and the variety of his remarks.
When we find ourselves attracted and challenged
by the cross, this is more than just an
idea of our own that has happened to
strike us.
We still reflect this tendency in such simple expressions as «I was
struck by a brilliant
idea», as if it came from somewhere else.
This one seems to me, for people who profess and call themselves Christians and who are to some degree influenced
by Christian
ideas and symbols, the most
striking and terrible.
4 There are a number of
striking parallels between Hall's vision of the future (and his critique of contemporary society) and the
ideas expressed
by James Ogilvey in Many Dimensional Man: Decentralizing Self, Society and the Sacred (New York: Oxford University Press.
In my two brief contacts with Eric Berne, (2) I was
struck by the freshness of much that he was saying and the relevance of many of his
ideas to my work.
Aristotle's faulty method was
struck down
by the Catholic Church, allowing previously forbidden
ideas to flourish.
I had no
idea it was such a cult favorite, but judging
by the amount of people wrapped around the block of our coffee shop, maybe it
struck a heartstring of other ladies too.
I think I stood there for a solid 20 minutes looking in the cupboards and staring into the freezer hoping that I would be
struck by some ingenious
idea.
As I flipped through the book for the umpteenth time, I was
struck by the recipe for Tiny Lemon Meringue Pie Cookies as I got the overwhelming
idea that if I baked them, the weather would change.
So, I'm still
struck by the fact that until I started pooling mother / child related charity name
ideas for our album, I didn't really know about the Milk Bank or pay attention to the need for donated breast milk.
It is an
idea struck upon
by Fred Donaldson, after he spent time watching and playing with other animals in the wild.
Although the prevailing
idea has been that the devastating disease, which
strikes some 1 percent of U.S. adults, is primarily caused
by something going wrong with neurons, the scientists suspected the brain's support cells, called glia.
Ritter got the
idea when, while playing Grand Theft Auto 4, he was
struck by how players played two types of game.
The
idea had been brewing for quite some time: In 2005, on a visit to Budapest to attend the International Symposium on Essential Oils, she was
struck by Hungary's distilleries and «huge fields» of fennel and chamomile, Cabral says.
The
idea that our universe is dominated
by two separate mystery components, utterly unlike ordinary matter or energy,
strikes many researchers as absurd.
About 5 years ago, neuroscientist Tony Zador was
struck by a novel
idea for how to build a synapse -
by - synapse map of brain connections — a goal dear to neuroscientists who want to understand how the brain's intricate wiring underlies its functions.
Among the issues raised was the fact that some graduate students were dissatisfied with their advising, and Brozek was
struck by the lack of good
ideas to address the problem.
«I was
struck by the originality of the
ideas.»
Guerra - Garcia and her colleagues looked at whether electrically charging an airplane would bring down its risk of lightning
strikes — an
idea that was initially suggested to them
by collaborators at Boeing, the research sponsor.
That
strikes a blow to the
idea, popularized
by futurist Ray Kurzweil, that we'll one day be able to upload our consciousness into computers, granting us immortality, adds Randy Goebel, a computer scientist at the University of Alberta in Canada who studies the theory and application of intelligent systems.
Melosh added that his team has been approached
by several venture capital firms about the
idea, though no deals have yet been
struck.
I'm always
struck by the fact that the image of the scientist is as a lone person wearing a lab jacket in the lab
by themselves for hours, whereas my sense is that maybe the single most important thing for a scientist, aside from being able to think of good questions, is figuring out good people to work with and enjoying the process of inventing
ideas together with other people.
Whoever Geber was, Newman was
struck by the range of
ideas in his book, which contains everything from details about refining metals to a description of the essential behaviors of matter.
That is when he was
struck by his Big
Idea, one that he honed in discussion with his wife along the road.
' t get resolved
by meeting it — say,
by eating a steak when the pining for red meat
strikes — «it's a great
idea to check in with your doctor.»
If you continue to have a «strong, unusual, insistent» desire that doesn't get resolved
by meeting it — say,
by eating a steak when the pining for red meat
strikes — «it's a great
idea to check in with your doctor.»
I'm
struck by the Revisit the totally awesome 80s, featuring music, movies, TV, videos, toys and fashion trends as well as totally tubular 1980s costume and party
ideas.
Evelyn's very visible split here is
striking, and the
idea of it sustained
by various means throughout Prize Winner.