Sentences with phrase «term self interest»

We should focus on encouragement and self - reflection, and help students see how developing these qualities are in their short and long - term self interest.

It seems to me that we tend to «beat» enough intrinsic motivation out of our students with testing and grading now, and that carrots and sticks might not work very effectively if we're trying to help transform character... Instead, it seems to me that we should focus on encouragement and self - reflection, and help students see how developing these qualities are in their short and long - term self interest.

May 1, 2018 Twenty eight years since the first IPCC report — this a sad indictment of our collective failure to give a damn for anything other than our own short - term self interest.

When founders believe their investors will do right by them, even when it may be against their narrow, short - term self interest, and investors believe the same about founders, it's magic.

Not exact matches

«The 30 % Club is really taking a business - based approach to this, and enlisting the business community itself to perform better in terms of getting women onto boards and in positions of leadership, really for its own self - interest,» Trenowden explains.

Wise businesspeople have the humility to seek out long - term, positive - sum collaborations with others, and are willing to sacrifice some of their immediate self - interest for long - term gains.

In the long term, however, continually falling interest rates are a sign that something is fundamentally amiss; that the requisite balance between credit and debt necessary for self - sustaining growth is missing.

We should not, however, delude ourselves into thinking that these companies are not pursuing their own self - interest, a self - interest that is related to China's long - term strategies for securing access to world markets and resources.

Instead, he presents his proposal in the terms of a labor - union manifesto: «It is long past time for faculty members to rise above narrow self - interest, give up the doctrine of academic exceptionalism, and agree to the same terms of employment as everyone else in the workforce.»

But in practice, it «encourages us to view others in terms of how they can serve our self - interested projects.»

In any case, I wish to make clear that both terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happiness.

According to this theory, economics is a «value - free» science, and the economic world can be defined in terms of the competition for scarce resources between self - interested individuals with unlimited wants.

There are very pragmatic reasons why we should confront this matter with more honesty and long - term commitment than we've done in the past, but the main reason goes beyond self - interest.

However, the spontaneity we need must be distinguished from acting according to habit or in terms of a narrow self - interest.

The best way to «sell» one's teenager on being a hospital volunteer or helping in a summer camp for the retarded is self - interest: «It will look good on your college application; it will teach you something you can use later on» If the young manage to catch a glimpse of selflessness in the process, fine; but we didn't direct them to value that part of the experience, nor did we expect that they would think of it in terms of «service» to others.

Voters who place cultural or moral concerns above economic self - interest are obviously beset by a form of false consciousness (Frank never uses the term, but his analysis presupposes it).

We expect students to have practical goals, which means self - interested ones in economic terms.

Although Smith personally, and in other writings, emphasized the importance of acting in terms of sympathy for others, in his most influential book, The Wealth of Nations, he pointed out that the market works best when each participant acts in terms of rational self - interest.

Immediately after attaining liberty, the revolutionaries invoked «public virtue» more often than any other term, a virtue which they defined as the readiness to sacrifice self - interest to the common good.

In personal life, choices of right and wrong come down to balancing the competing moral claims of self and family, personal security and professional interests, short - term and long - run good.

The conventionalist can easily be caricatured as an establishmentarian» whose conformity to «the system» can only be explained in terms of his own self - interests.

Insightful corporate leadership will support such government action, since it enables companies to behave morally and in their long - term self - interest, without losing out to competitors.

Communities of interest, on the other hand, are the kind suggested by terms like «the intelligence community» or «the social - service community» These communities tend to form» around limited interests, often self - interests.

For Christ's sake can we, an undisciplined people, begin to think in terms of a self - disciplined life, foregoing some of our transient pleasures for the deeper joy of helping humanity — to the point, even, of casting our votes for proposals which are contrary to our self - interest but which can help to alleviate poverty, promote peace, and confer dignity and self - respect on those less fortunate?

Then do we always give equal weight to our distant future experiences and to our present ones in terms of this calculus of self - interest?

Friendships are formed because they serve self - interest; marriage is contracted for the sake of self - interest; vocation is chosen, not for service but for self - interest; even when war breaks out and millions of men pour out their blood like water in sacrifice, some see the whole situation in terms of their self - interest.

The term and title, «Master Chef» at least in the United States, is used loosely by Marketers and individuals alike to promote any number of self - interest endeavors.

You would need power programs to vote against their short - term self - interest, which never happens in any vote on anything.

You would then need power programs to vote against their short - term self - interest, which never happens in any vote on anything.

In other words, presidential term limits were defended by a broad alliance of MPs motivated by a range of principled and self - interested concerns.

However, President Obama in a CNN interview last week did seem to speak of self defence when he said «there is no doubt that when you start seeing chemical weapons used on a large scale... that starts getting to some core national interests that the United States has, both in terms of us making sure that weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating, as well as needing to protect our allies, our bases in the region.»

Do remember, the objective is to establish an effective council for the long term, not just on the whim of a few motivated self interested individuals!

Remember in the long - term existing local businesses will be hurt, new independent businesses discouraged, and only low - wage jobs provided by casinos operating in their own self - interest.

TL; DR: Europe is a) merely being pragmatic about the situation and b) acting in its long - term self - interest.

«But in terms of self - interest, the two parties are bound together far more than they were the day before yesterday.

«Term limits will help take the self - interest out of holding office, encourage fresh ideas and improve the process in how and when things get done in Albany.»

Essentially, the official said, speaking on background, the councils work on an honors system: Recusals are merely a safeguard because the state picked honest, legitimate people to sit on the panels who are thinking in terms of the regional good, not their own self - interest.

Part of this research is accounting for the kind of emotion - based reasoning that might lead someone to act against their rational self - interest for the short - term satisfaction of «payback» — that is, cutting off their nose to spite their opponent's smiling face.

Casting the issue in terms of the scientific enterprise's welfare and researchers» self - interest rather than of compassion for the powerless brings more allies to cause, Tilghman suggests.

Perhaps because our automatic responses have evolved in social environments where self - interested behavior in the short - term has not always lead to personal gains over the long - term.

The panel calls on big pharma to «look beyond short - term assessments of profit and loss, and act with enlightened self - interest» in helping to fund the basic research that will allow the scheme to proceed.

I think one of the ways that we have changed in a hundred and how many years since then is we have a better appreciation today for these amazing creatures [and] a self - interested one, not just in terms of natural services; but earthworms are a terrific way, as any composter can tell you, and here it is August and lot of us are composting to help digest peels and tops and things like that from out of your vegetable garden and put [it back out], add some more earth to the top of the soil.

«The health of the ocean environment, the long term sustainability of tuna stocks and the interests of many are being put at risk by the short - sighted self interest of a few,» she added.

In the long run that may have good ethical outcomes that in the short term are motivated by self - interest.

It was hypothesized that in short - term romantic contexts, MSinduced self - esteem striving motivates interest in dating a physically attractive other, whereas in.

Broadminded, simple, cohesive long term friendship, hard working, i had lot of interest in spritualism, down to earth, most caring, well settled, sensetive, emotional, easy going, self respected, calm natured.

You should have the self confidence that you are an interesting person and do not have a suitable long term date because you just haven't met your kind as yet.

Long term I'm hoping to find some folks who are interested in building sustainable community, and extra long term hopefully a queer land project that functions with consensus decision making, self...

By positing the protagonist's experience as a moral dilemma that forces him to choose between ruthless self - interest (in terms of both himself and his family) and a greater humanitarian concern for the lives and safety of strangers / the rest of humanity, the movie tries to fake an intellectual and philosophical dimension it does not genuinely possess.

The non-cognitive skills we measured include conscientiousness, self - control, and grit — a term coined by our collaborator Angela Duckworth to capture students» tendency to sustain interest in, and effort toward, long - term goals.