Sentences with phrase «than the wrong thing»

Because of his peculiar talent for doing the right thing as often, or more often, than the wrong thing, Paul Larson gets enough rope to hang himself.

Not exact matches

Many things can go wrong and costs usually end up being much higher than expected.

Billionaire and avid reader Bill Gates has a new favorite book: «Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.»

The thing with doing a startup is that it's an unusual path and one where there are far more reasons it can go wrong than can go right.

Sometimes those things that go wrong are outside the control of the wealthy (i.e. random bad luck) but more often than not they are things that are completely within their control.

So, back to doing things the way everybody else does — or more accurately, with far more workers than the typical assembly line, because Tesla did things wrong to begin with and now has to ramp up the humans to avoid a catastrophe.

And in the end, «All these years we've been wrong» is a much more compelling pitch than «things mostly work much the way you would assume.»

But, too often, we focus on the wrong things; we focus on what we don't want rather than what we do want.

I certainly didn't predict the outcomes with precision, but given the state of things I think it's safe to say that I was much more right than wrong.

The other worry in these stories seems to be that these investors are somehow doing the wrong thing, straying outside of their proper category, by investing in private rather than public companies.

One word that makes us happy: Progress [21:21] We grow because that helps us give more — share it with someone you love, it magnifies it [22:04] More excited about feeding one billion people than any material thing, so much more meaning when it's not just about you [22:19] The challenge is our brain: it's looking for what's wrong, because that helps you survive [22:30] Peak state = high energy, feel extraordinary, producing results is easy [22:46] Low energy state = say things and do things that hurt your relationship [23:39] Peak State = Beautiful state, Low - energy state = suffering state [24:08] Over achievers don't suffer, right?

Ma, a former teacher, says he always warns government leaders to also «pay attention to education,» because right now we're teaching children the wrong thing: that machines are better than humans.

My students at Peking University, for example, are extremely supportive and think very differently about what I do, and I think I have convinced them that as future policymakers, especially in finance and central banking, rather than join the hype that has always accompanied every growth miracle it is their responsibility to be focus on risks and on all the ways things can go wrong.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

The only thing you have wrong is inserting your clear self interest and calling for the government to not intervene, despite the fact that our debt to income ratio is the highest of the G7 countries and higher than it was in the US in 2008 — this is not part of a normal economic cycle and you're being irresponsible.

The article had significant reach, and having trained equity and credit analysts across three continents through the course of my career, I know that instructing investors on how to «unlearn'the wrong ways of thinking about things is a lot harder than molding a fresh thinker into a great investment professional.

Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?

All of these things that «reason» says are wrong, which is why we should do what Galileo did, and see how the world REALLY works, rather than the way Aristotle approached it, which was to simply think about how things SHOULD work.

There are more stories out of the bible that have been proven impossible and or wrong by science than have been shown to have any credibility... Of course I'm talking about actual science... not that christian science and creation «science»... which use scientific sounding things and jump to ridiculous unjustifyable conlusions, or that create incorrect premises and then make up answers to suit the questions.

I can't accept the logic that because things that are wrong are worse «over there» than they are «here» that a qualitative difference exists.

There are so many things wrong with the history of your posts it will take too long to point them all out and correct them than I have available at the moment.

Jesus has already pointed out what is wrong with the disciples» perspective — they have set their minds on things human rather than divine (Mark 8:33).

Also, there is nothing wrong with being sexually aroused by naked men or women, the disturbing thing with the unequal power of division (or lack of division) of power in society produces systems where women continuously lessened, by objectification (more than) men.

Whenever sex is these things, it can not help but be wrong, for it destroys rather than creates life.

More than that I think there is so much «wrong» with the system and that Jesus and the Gospel quickly become second among many good things.

I can see how one can look at this idea and look at the following examples in Hebrews 11 as «Because they were sure they would get this reward, they did this thing» but as the author points out in verse 39 that they didn't get what they imagined they would, so if we understand faith as «being sure» it would turn out that it is «being sure» of something and being totally wrong — instead it makes more sense to understand Hebrews 11:1 as saying that «faith is a realization (or actualization)» of our hopes, a realization that the author points out is greater than we could expect and be sure in.

Killing a person who prefers to continue living is therefore wrong, other things being equal... For preference utilitarians, taking the life of a person would normally be worse than taking the life of some other being, since persons are highly future - oriented in their preferences.

But rather than rashly conclude that either her understanding of biology was wrong or her understanding of theology was wrong, the Bible tells us that she «treasured up all of these things and pondered them in her heart.»

Am not anti-Christ nor Anti-Jewish just like all Muslims am a monotheist so must be rather Anti-Polytheists & Disbelievers... but believe me it is not hatred but rather pityness for the innocents and hardness towards the wicked transgressors... Guess that is all about it unless few of our brother got the message wrong!?! Since we learned from the Quran verses that there will be in paradise from the Jews, Christian and others from other beliefs... and since God forgives any thing else other than to assign for him partners as polytheists do, then that means many of Christians and Jews are monotheist towards God although might show otherwise of fears from dominant doctrine... As it seems few Christians have realized some how they were wrong some where, then had to introduce that Trinity to correct it to show as if monotheist but made another mistake by having God the One Divided into Three then and remained Divided as Three as now and for eternity...!?

On the unfortunate side of things, however, it still happend more than a dozen billion years ago, and not 6000 years ago, so the Bible is still unequivocally wrong.

scott god also told us not to judge, so let cleflo do cleflo and you do you if you do nt understand how to percieve gods word than it could also be you i remember when i first got saved i was taught a lots of religion stuff but i kept running after god and not after man and he revile some things to me thur his holy spirit watch what you say about gods people cause we all have issues and with that being said be blessed and if hes doing wrong by gods word than he has to answer to god not you so why set yourself up to be curse for it god do nt need your help in nothing stay free cause who god set free is free indeed.

While we see nothing inherently wrong with these things, we understand that committing to follow Jesus — to begin dying to yourself every day — is a decision that can require a different expression than just a hand being raised.

The point wasn't that Euclidean or non Euclidean geometry is right or wrong, or more right than the other, it is that historically, people prematurely assigned truth to things that were apparently obvious.

There is nothing wrong with these things, but Jesus knows that there is something more important than any of these.

I'd be thankful for hundreds of things a day, and it was weird, but it made me realize how we ignore the hundreds of small things that go right each day rather than the few that go wrong.

There is no greater failure than succeeding at the wrong thing.

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

I've been in correspondence with the author --(we're fellow Arrested Development junkies, so we like to exchange favorite quotes over Twitter)-- and the first thing I told him after diving into the book was, «Don't take this the wrong way, man, but this book is WAY more interesting than I thought it would be.»

I'm pretty sure that Hawking got a lot more than the monkey - sonnet thing wrong during his long career, assuming he did get the monkey - sonnet thing wrong.

If you want to know such things as the point of existence, the meaning of life, and the ways humankind has gone right and wrong, you can not do a whole lot better than start with fiction: the fiction that is the Bible.

If my religion says one thing, and another religion says another thing, either one of us is right or we are both wrong, and IF one of us is right, that religion sounds better than the one that is wrong does it not?

Except when folks are in a funk, drunk, in France, or at a university, almost all of them seem to believe that some things are really right and wrong and not just right and wrong because they happen to think so today or because natural selection has programmed them with the illusion that some of their choices are more virtuous than others.

It was the Light because the knew creator was of Light but searched for it in the wrong sources, or made an idole of light sources to worship rather than reading and looking in to ones self by reading the light that is within the books that was meant for them to read thing and believe in to submission!.

We can sometimes pray for the wrong things or have less than perfect motives.

Newton explained many things and allowed us to calculate the orbits of planets with his laws of motion, yet his idea of a static universe was wrong - like wise Einstein with his energy equation for many years thought / claimed the universe was static rather than dynamic.

Mind you that wasn't the only thing you said in that particular thread that led me to the conclusion that attempting to have any real dialogue with you was pointless and I was already well on the way to that point from the countless encounters of you avoiding questions and offering nothing more to support your stance than «I'm right and you're wrong» or «read it again, it's clear».

Just remember at the end of the day, one man is no better than the other based on what they believe, and if you think different, then you are a prime example of things wrong with this world.

I hear people argue about things like the existence of God all the time but I rarely hear anything more compelling than «I'm right your wrong deal with it.»

The Soviets loved the wrong things, and that false love made them weaker than anyone, except Reagan and his allies, could see.

When you are open to things just going wrong, things usually go better than planned.