Sentences with phrase «thing about a practice»

He said the weird thing about practicing for a show is that most performers, athletes, artists, etc, prepare to display their skills openly for everyone to see, whereas magicians practice on hiding what they're doing.

This is the best thing about practicing Pilates, after you acquire strength there are specific routines, usually performed at the end of each class, which ensures your mind and body get calm.

One of the most distressing things about practicing medicine these days is the blind faith that most people, doctors and patients, have in cholesterol pills like Lipitor, Crestor, Vytorin, and Zocor, just to name a few of the most popular.

The interesting thing about my practice account on Questrade, and surely other platforms, is that when you look up a stock, it provides a collection of press releases and news tidbits at the bottom about the company, which comes in handy.

The great thing about practicing duck diving is that you can do it in any surf conditions, even if it is totally flat.

Throughout the two days of TBD Law, Sam asked several of the attendees to tell him one thing about the practice of law that would be different in 10 years and one thing that would be the same.

«The interesting thing about our practice is that, in the North, there are very different types of clients so at times we're working for governments, at times we work for indigenous organizations and at other times private sector entities,» says Chamberlain.

One of the best things about my practice is that I get to work with people who as you say are interested in improving the lives of other people.

The unique thing about my practice is that of course I run it out of their office, and work with them to deliver feedback as a co-working lawyer in residence, and also liaison lawyer with the Vancouver Courthouse Library BC.

Not exact matches

Learn about the things your clients and customers like and value: their food, their customs and protocol, business practices and what they do for fun.

At Visually, we've discovered a thing or two (or three) about best practices when it comes to creating compelling content.

Unless you have an accounting degree, you won't automatically know the first thing about basic accounting practices.

But after reading many of these articles, you may have noticed that the sort of things they suggest — practicing gratitude, say, or getting out into the natural world more regularly — are easier to read about then they are to effectively implement.

The policy should be more about what employees can do and best practices for social media use versus all the things employees can't or shouldn't do on social media.

But Sharif, an American citizen with Bangladeshi roots, was right about one thing: bribes were standard practice in Bangladesh.

(Steve Jobs and his team, who knew a thing or two about presenting, practiced this religiously.

Businesses can use them to educate attendees about a number of things, from industry best practices to the capabilities of their products / services.

It's a quick, fun read, and it has some good takeaways to think about regarding corporate management practices, market efficiency (or lack thereof), and individual investor behavior — all things that I think are useful to keep in mind as an investor in the stock market.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

The funny thing about baptisms for the dead is that Mormon doctrine itself makes the practice meaningless!

As we enter into the season of Lent, here are some things to keep in mind about this practice and practicalities for a sustainable fast.

wonderful thing about the U.S.A is that we all get to or don't have to practice whatever religion / philosophy we want, unlike some other screwed up countries.

So when you use your post as a bashing tool against God's people, and mock Christ's resurection from the dead as a comparison to creepy, ungodly, demonic «Halloween» practices, you only show your immaturity in putting your foot in your mouth about things you know nothing about, and your words are of no more value then empty, silly ranting.

Most of you are conservatives and say the same thing about government, but you never put this into practice.

To go along with this, you have to believe three things, all controversial: (1) that authenticity is a valid idea; (2) that you can argue in reason about ideals and about the conformity of practices to these ideals; and (3) that these arguments can make a difference.

The fact is if you believe the words of God and the teachings of Jesus, this practice is an abomination and nothing that anyone can do to make it pretty, nice, sweet, loving or any other thing to make it acceptable can override what the Lord says about it.

The thing I loved most about it is that it took breastfeeding from a mystery to a normal part of life, while also affirming the art and wholeness and spirituality of the practice.

When someone tells me an unfavorable thing about someone else, particularly when it is someone I don't really know very well, it is my practice to ask them WHY they are telling me this!

It is, among other things, about practices that are parasitical on the abortion industry and that, at least indirectly, support that industry.

But when it comes to what I believe and how I practice, I am certain about most things.

While I fully support (and practice) questioning as a way to learn about the universe around us, questioning for the sake of questioning can sometimes derail the process and bog us down needlessly when certain things have already been fully established or accepted.

Just how a plurality of ways to construe the Christian thing, ways to go about understanding God, and ways to be in community will be related to one another is finally an internal political matter settled through the school's governance practices.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

The Five Pillars of Islam, for example, lay down the boundaries of Muslim practice and identity, with the suggestion that conflicting or different things said about God can not be equally valid.

• Fact # 9: I taught at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary early this year and spent some time with the President, Byron Klaus — who is a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate and keeps up with (and says good things about) his friend Paige Patterson, whose seminary has taken a position against some practices associated with Pentecostal Christianity.

I mean, believe in god all you want, but that doesn't mean you have to follow practices and teachings from people who were constantly raping and killing each other and didn't know a damn thing about how the world works outside of their little desert.

When one Pagan encounters another Pagan who believes and practices Paganism differently, they might argue a bit about these things, but in the end, they both just shrug their shoulders and decide to «live and let live.»

They had some important things to say, but both repeatedly talked about «religiosity» when they meant religious knowledge, commitment and practice.

One thing I am becoming more and more convinced of is that before you go blast someones life, theology, or practice, you should not go read a book about them, but instead endeavor to become friends with someone of that group.

Very shortly into the sermon I realized 3 things: 1) although my practice would tolerate any of the people in the congregation (welcome them even), if they knew anything about me, I'd be tarred and feathered — and certainly NOT welcome; 2) redemption & heaven were the only reason for good deeds, not simply because strive (in this lifetime) for compassion and truth; and 3) the guy really believed there was a place in the sky made of gold, and that living there was desirable.

I have many areas currently in my life where I believe one thing (and write about it on this blog), but do something else in my daily practice.

Through this function of the divine wisdom immanent in man the whole long story has come about of our groping progress from our brute ancestry, our slow attainment of civilization, and our unceasing outreach for ever better things in thought and practice.

The children helped me to this practice when I was a young curate because they listed the most difficult thing about Confession as «getting there».

«We are all citizens — nobody's father; nobody's mother,» says Elshtain «Still, mothering is a practice whose animating ethos can fruitfully be brought to bear when we think about all things political.»

So the thing about Peter does not in any way conflict with Catholic teaching or practice.

So once again... if you deny that you engage in this basic human practice of accusing, condemning, and scapegoating others... if you think that the people you call «monsters» and «heretics» truly are guilty of everything you accuse them of... if you think that some people truly deserve to burn in hell for all eternity... if you think that war is righteous and good and we need to bomb some groups of evil people off the face of the planet... then you are calling God a liar, and you have not understood the first thing about God and what He taught through Jesus (cf. 1 John 4:7 - 11).

2Pe 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; 2Pe 1:11 for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.

By speaking of «theory - laden» practices, Browning also calls attention to value orientations and beliefs about the nature of things that already reside in practice.

In general, I try not to just write about theoretical things, but things that I am actually doing, or have put into practice myself.

Beyond that, in a crazy - quilt pattern, enactments of the practice of worship differ profoundly cross-culturally and within the same cultures because of deeply differing construals of what the Christian thing is all about and, consequently, what the features of an appropriate response to it should be.