Sentences with phrase «things people my age»

I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

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When people think of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its impact on business, it conjures up images of space - age workplaces overrun with robots.

However, these odds don't factor in a person's individual behaviors, age, sex, location, or other things that can affect risks — they're averages of the entire US population.

I don't really think that this is just an age thing or purely the province of people who are fundamentally resistant to change.

While Wynne's minority Liberal government said a CPP enhancement was still Ontario's «preferred approach» to strengthening the retirement income system, the new provincial plan was touted as the next best thing as governments deal with aging populations and people who aren't saving enough for the future.

The team behind that study quizzed thousands of people aged 10 - 90 on their ability to do things like remember lists of words, recognize faces, learn names, and do math.

It could be that people who meditate do other things that keep their brains young, or that people with slow - aging brains are somehow more prone to meditate.

Double check to make sure you're not violating the law by laying off people based on things like race, age, or gender.

Here's another thing Aron likely understands about «frequent moviegoers» (which includes all age groups, not just young people): They account for 49 percent of all tickets sold in the U.S. and Canada but only 10 percent of the overall moviegoing population.

As people's tastes widen for all things handmade and delicious, the old traditions of cheese making and aging have become big business.

«Most people cite concern for their health in old age, and it's like they haven't connected the dots that these are things we need to be working on right now — today, and each and every day,» Collinson said.

The social - media giant recently released statistics indicating that more than 65 million users like things daily, and although it's generally more popular among younger users, people of all ages seem to enjoy pressing the like button.

In fact, older people in the workforce — Gen - Xers and the percentage of Boomers still on the payroll — can learn a thing or two from people between the ages of 18 and 35.

I don't think it's a generational thing from a behavioral standpoint; people our age just happen to talk to people our age more often and openly.

Across ages and lifestyles, one thing is clear: more people are struggling with work - life balance than three years ago.

You have not identified any way to actually know things like the age, education level, occupation and demographics of the people searching for these phrases.

«The most important and fulfilling thing in my day to day life is taking care of my five children, who are ages 3 - 13 but on the business side, it's knowing CSSCS has so quickly made a difference in people's lives that makes the sacrifices I have made all worthwhile.

«In this digital age, it's now more important than ever that we talk openly about body image, so that young people can feel comfortable in their skin and have one less thing to worry about when they are going through puberty, which is already one of the most difficult stages of their life.»

As racist as this is going to sound, these people have been killing each other for ages and they will continue to do so in the future if permitted because it is the only thing they know.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

Reality doesn't have to ever kick in... to know this is simple... just count the percentages of people that think there are such things as gods throughout the ages that have come and gone.

Noahs Ark has been proven false; virgin birth has been proven false; the creation story; the age of the earth... oh so many things and for you to deny the ACTUAL evidence is simply you being a narrow - minded, intellectually dishonest person.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

It's not easy dealing with countless people that have a age old habit of blaming good people for things the gangsters who live amongst them do.

With Jesus, and the Christian mystics of all ages, we know that the «inside - ness» of things, and especially of people, is more important than their outward appearance or external relationships.

As a scientist I always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I've never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people.»

Jesus» treachery toward his contemporaries came from handing over their most cherished things, including hope for a messianic age, to the sometimes hostile peoples roundabout.

@ Jim: That is the age old question, why does God allow things like this to happen to good people?

If we ask what should be the content of instruction, it is evident that anything like an adequate answer must include many different topics, because a person living in the complex modern age must know and be able to do a multitude of things.

Many people could tell you the obvious things: the provision of special care, the preparation of the church building for access, the sensitization of the pastor to the increasing numbers of the aging.

Writing in Premier Youthwork magazine (November 2015) Rev Rachel Mann, a male to female transgender vicar, advised: «Perhaps the single most important thing to remember is that... trans people are, ultimately, people... Trans people of all ages are often seen through a lens that treats us as curiosities, freaks or alien people.

The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

@Gezellig, I was trying to demonstrate how scientists feel when people talk about things like evolution or the age of the earth.

For the post-moderns one of the worst things in the world is a «master - narrative» - something which holds itself out as offering the truth for all people of all ages.

Spiritual healing and development, at any age, can help people recover from things gone wrong.

Regarding Scripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character and purpose.

This god apparently blew his miracle budget on these Bronze Age people, so can't or won't reveal himself to modern people who have replaced creating gods with learning why things happen - the very same people who would probably welcome such a revelation because they search for truth.

There is no such thing as the Christian faith, but there have been countless people through the ages who have found that their capacity for faith has been nourished and strengthened by drawing on various elements of the now extensive Christian cumulative tradition.

I don't know if it was the hormones or what, but I remember crying in the pool on the last day because it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen: people of different shapes and sizes and backgrounds and ages and races and religions, all of us in the public pool with the babies we loved, looking ridiculous for their little sakes, utterly and entirely here for this parenting gig.

When people go into the questioning stage, they are often given inadequate answers... when they begin to enter a realization of the unity of all things, they are told to stop the new age crap.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 stars and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.»

But if those laws changed, do we really have any doubt that, in this age of openness to all things sexual, many people will be rediscovering that interest in polygamy?

If it really were this the age needed, the theater might perhaps need a new play in which it was made a subject of laughter that a person died of love — or would it not rather be salutary for this age if such a thing were to happen among us, if the age were to witness such an occurrence, in order that for once it might acquire courage to believe in the power of spirit, courage to quench cravenly the better impulses in oneself and to quench invidiously the better impulses in others... by laughter?

And just because we believe in a marriage of mutuality doesn't mean we also don't need a few tools in our toolbox for things like conflict resolution, finances, sex, romance, aging, navigating crisis or change, all of that same stuff because hello, we're all people with real stuff to deal with and marriage can be hard sometimes no matter what your theology is.

The confusion for me, again even as a little kid (ages 9 - 11 particularly, at a time when I was quite the believer even), was that all the other religions pretty much said the same thing... prayers answered, miracle cures, and with the same back up, that «unanswered» prayers were either an answer, «no» or «not yet»... OR... the person asking didn't have the right heart, or didn't ask for the right thing, or asked the wrong way, etc..

The second thing would be to understand the audience and the present age that informs people....

It's hard to believe in this day - in - age people still believe there is some person, thing, or spirit up there, or down there, watching over them; but, religion is big business, so there's no doubt in my mind it will continue well into the future.

Not only would that allow the individual (of any age) to see things as they do, but maybe it would allow more inner peace which in turn could allow people to accept and understand one another more as well.

To call a person or thing medieval is often to label it as obscurantist; recall the depiction of the «Age of Faith» in the movie The Name of the Rose, in which Sean Connery as Br.

would all be is control, indeed is depressing... and when we say these things to young people like myself (age 25) or younger, or even those seeking a spiritual life the first time.....