Sentences with phrase «than art as»

If you're a creative person, chances are you can be creative in other spheres than art as well.

Not exact matches

With a network of 40,000 artists from more than 120 countries, Bucketfeet empowers artists to share their stories and perspectives using the universal language of art and the shoe as their canvas.

Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

But the, uh, picture looks a little prettier from here on: since many individuals buy art as decoration rather than as an investment, insiders expect the art market to turn around as the housing indus - try's fortunes improve.

Electronic Arts, one of Zynga's major competitors (and ranked in April as «The Worst Company in America»), fared better than Zynga on Glassdoor.com, generating an approval rating of 64 percent.

The art of conversation requires that we think on our feet, and conversing with someone smarter than you can be a fantastic exercise in quick thinking as well as an opportunity to learn something new.

His vision treats management more as an art than a science.

Only the outliers, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, get more than 10 % of their earned revenue from admissions, he said.

With the advent of the smartphone came a boon for the gaming industry, and new niches within the indie - gaming scene have created a whole new lens through which games can be viewed; we are more aware than ever that games can teach us or exist as experiential art in addition to the entertainment they provide.

Fifty - six - year - old Amie Crawford, who graduated with an associate's degree in interior design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and had a successful 30 - year career as an interior designer, never thought she'd be in a job where the average take - home pay was less than a fifth of what she had made before.

Investors have picked up on the trend: A website that tracks private companies values Zynga at more than $ 5 billion, roughly the same as Electronic Arts» (ERTS) market capitalization.

This year's show featured more than 150 exhibitors with state - of - the - art technology for people who spend as much time in the digital world than they do in the real one.

Many salaried workers see the assets of the rich, such as housing and art, rising in value far faster than wages.

There's something I've learned in the last 10 years as President of a growing small business that you probably won't hear elsewhere: For burgeoning small businesses, establishing a sales quota is more art than science.

As Covestor CEO Asheesh Advani explains, «forecasting business revenue and expenses during the startup stage is really more art than science.»

As a Haskayne student, you'll have access to more than a dozen student clubs, a state - of - the - art business library, and an invaluable co-op program, mentorship program, and a dedicated Career Centre that will be available exclusively for you as a Haskayne student and will provide you with personalized one - on - one help from dedicated career consultantAs a Haskayne student, you'll have access to more than a dozen student clubs, a state - of - the - art business library, and an invaluable co-op program, mentorship program, and a dedicated Career Centre that will be available exclusively for you as a Haskayne student and will provide you with personalized one - on - one help from dedicated career consultantas a Haskayne student and will provide you with personalized one - on - one help from dedicated career consultants.

Those returns were incredibly volatile — a stock might be down 30 % one year and up 50 % the next — but the power of owning a well - diversified portfolio of incredible businesses that churn out real profit, firms such as Coca - Cola, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, has rewarded owners far more lucratively than bonds, real estate, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit and money markets, gold and gold coins, silver, art, or most other asset classes.

The driver's LinkedIn profile identifies him as a software engineer who joined Apple Inc. in November after more than a decade at Electronic Arts Inc..

In short, the practice is nothing more than moving an investor's money into different asset classes such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, gold, other commodities, international firms, fine art, etc..

Whether its learning to colour - in between the lines, or discovering that art work belongs on paper rather than on your parents» walls, being creative as a kid allows us to develop our skills at the same time as having fun.

«The market as a whole is quite high on a historic basis... interest rates are so low that there's no real competition for the money other than art and real estate,» Robertson said.

Even as other corporate functions — logistics, sales - force management — were being given the «moneyball» treatment in the early 2000s with powerful predictive software (and even as airlines had fully weaponized airfares), retail pricing remained more art than science.

I recent read «The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck» by Mark Manson, and I like that he frames happiness as a process — something that is with us as we solve problems — rather than a goal to be attained.

Are aesthetic investments other than gold (such as art, gems, stamps and wine) viable portfolio options?

I was minding my own business as the rest of you what ever comes to my mind which to me is considered as a piece of art that gave to it all my precious time of my sleep... And rather than ignoring my post you would rather leave all and come to mine to call it stupid and taking all the space there is...??? OMG you must have felt like I had taken all the air you breath leaving you gasping for air as a fish out of water...!!

And to challenge a proposition as true or not is vastly different than our personal opinions about art.

Catholics (64 percent) and Jews (62 percent) find sex «Deliciously Sensuous» (a carefully chosen scientific term of art, no doubt) as opposed to only 51 percent of Protestants, perhaps indicating that a vestigial sense of guilt is more likely to enhance sexual excitement than a vestigial sense of moderation.

26 New laws and new activities result: «Abstraction, logic, reasoned choice and inventions, mathematics, art, calculation of space and time, anxieties and dreams of love — all these activities of inner life are nothing else than the effervescence of the newly - formed center as it explodes onto itself.»

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

When people compare God to an invisible dragon or unicorn, it's annoying (for those of us who see concepts of «God» as being like «Love» or «Art» rather than invisible beareded man), but it at least makes some cultural sense.

Not Adequacy but Sainthood Louder than Words: The Art of Living as a Catholic by Matthew Leonard, Our Sunday Visitor, 159 pp, # 9.99 paperback, # 9.49 Kindle edition

Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation to it) or else means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually presents.

Book Reviews FAITH MAGAZINE May - June 2016 Science & Religion - Some Historical Perspectives by John Hedley Brooke The «Making of Men» - The Idea and Reality of Newman's University in Oxford and Dublin by Paul Shrimpton Louder than Words: The Art of Living as a Catholic by Matthew Leonard Praying the Rosary - a Journey through Scripture and Art by Denis McBride CSsR

When Ezra cries, «Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve,» (Daniel 9:16) or a prayer in the Book of Nehemiah says, «Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,» (Nehemiah 9:33) or Daniel exhausts tautology in confessing, «We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,» (Daniel 9:5) we see the self - accusation which resulted from the acceptance of national misfortune not as an evidence of Yahweh's weakness in protecting his people but as proof of his inflexible righteousness.

The monks told Simon that Hitler was planning to pillage the monasteries for their art treasures, even going so far as to send officers to photograph more than 1,000 works of art.

As anyone who has mastered the time - honored art of argumentation and the Socratic Method can tell you, nothing will favorably end a debate quicker than a picture of Willy Wonka saying something snarky about Benghazi.

By and large the best art is a better guide to reality than the trendy orthodoxy purveyed as social science.

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

Medieval art as well dealt in symbols in an era when artists were more concerned with the world of Christian faith than with the world of scientific observation.

If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.

The overall style of Sleeping Beauty is also more modern than that of the older Disney fairy tales; both figures and backgrounds are somewhat sharp edged and angular, in the manner of 1950s commercial art, rather than softly rounded as in the earlier films.

Cameron came up with a term for this special lack of depth: He calls his updated gimmick «immersive 3 - D,» as if putting audiences in the midst of his alien worlds and catastrophic battle scenes carried greater believability than any before in Western art.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

Although most of van Gogh's biographers view this transition as a rejection of religion, in fact art rather than preaching became van Gogh's chief form of religious expression.

For as Nietzsche sees it the world as we interpret it is really nothing more than a work of art which we have created through the will to power (which is Nietzsche's way of characterizing the chaotic nature of the unity which underlies all things).

The See of Peter fell into the hands of men who were more interested in using it as a power in Italian politics, in aggrandizing the members of their families, or in promoting art and their own personal pleasures than they were in making it effective in furthering the spiritual and moral life of Europe.

Fortunately the actuality is better than this; real art is being produced today; but to the extent that this concept holds, we are an age that has lost its way and, like Ecclesiastes, is merely busying itself with trivialities in order, as he said, to keep from thinking — one wonders if the real objective is to hide an inability to think.

But a student of the history of that school of anti «art known as iconoclasm knows he must seek other game than the easy prey of nihilist art.

The task of religious leaders is to call their people to live citizenship as discipleship, which in this instance means using the arts of persuasion rather than the anarchic tactics of disruption to do the work of justice.

In his Proslogion (1078), Anselm of Canterbury defined God as «a being than which none greater can be thought» 1 and went on to perceive that [73] greatness in terms of ultimate power: «O Lord God, thou art more truly almighty just because thou canst do nothing through lack of power, and nothing has power against thee.»