Sentences with phrase «things we experienced took»

Many things we experienced took us by surprise.

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Loosely scheduling out my day and closing my inbox when it isn't time to check email are two things I'll take away from this experience.

The scientifically - validated questions address traditional things like the communication skills of the physician, but will also take into consideration how the telemedicine technology worked, whether it was effective, and how it impacted the patient experience.

How to Manage Interns: What to Provide for Your Interns The main thing interns should take away from an internship at your company is practical work experience that in some way matches their interests.

Through his experience, Young has learned a thing or two about what it takes to be a successful online entrepreneur.

She and her business are the epitome of working from anywhere in the world, and as a result of her own experience, she's learned a thing or two about what it really takes to stay wildly productive when you're constantly traveling.

A University of Arizona study on college students» financial behaviors found that three things help there: Parental involvement, taking a personal finance class and having a part - time job and other hands - on money experience.

When I work with companies, I often hear things like «takes initiative», «works well on a team», «great problem solver», «knows the business», «brings experience», or «fits with our culture.»

In the aftermath, I was left with years of memories and a smartphone that couldn't provide enjoyable company across a dinner table, share in the joys of experiencing a concert or kiss me goodnight before bed — all these things I had previously taken for granted simply because I was too preoccupied looking for fulfillment from a screen.

«I think since, really, I'm a conservative investor, that experience of being in debt and also the experience of seeing things happen to people who took too much financial risk and got hurt, led me to be pretty conservative — I'm a guy that looks for singles and not home runs,» Bach said.

It doesn't defeat them — not by any stretch — but it's sufficiently painful to cause them to take a good hard look in the mirror, determine what went wrong, learn from the experience, and do things differently going forward to avoid a repeat performance.

No matter how many things I do, or how many amazing things I get to experience, in the end the most gratifying for me, the most fulfilling, is just to see someone take that one bite that might change their night or make their evening.

But there's one easy, important thing you can do to settle in and become efficient in your new role, writes John D. Spooner, author of «No One Ever Told Us That: Money And Life Lessons For Young Adults»: Take an experienced employee out to eat.

«I'll ask [potential hires] about something that hasn't gone so well in their life and then ask them what they've learned from it because the next thing I look for in people is curiosity,» he says, «I'm interested in people who take those negative experiences in their lives and are really curious about what happened and can talk intelligently about what they learned and what they might do differently.»

Having had troubling experiences with bad bosses before, Jon Good, the founder of gourmet chocolate company Jon Good Chocolates, makes sure he sets the bar high when it comes to leadership, taking blame when things go wrong, showing support for his employees and doing everything he can to help them be their best selves.

The target is a medium term one, so there's a little bit of flexibility over the short term, and I think experience shows that in trying to do economic policy and trying to control inflation there really isn't an ability to fine tune these things over very short periods of time, you have to take a more medium term perspective.

One of the things that sets them apart from other VC firms is that both Smerklo and Ball are experienced entrepreneurs who have taken a startup from idea stage to exit.

«When it comes to things like employee incentives, we're definitely part of this larger macroeconomic shift that's taking place — where there's less money being spent on material goods, and more money being spent on experiences.

Our team creates a peace of mind experience for our clients so they can focus on the important things in their life while we take care of any hassles associated with their rental property portfolio.

Sure, things might take a little longer to accomplish and I am operating on minimal sleep but it's all good and I would not trade this new experience for anything.

It was a very refreshing take on lot of things in the capital markets and I thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience.

I took the great advice of Carla Johnson, chief experience officer at Type - A Communications, and put down my pencil (yes, I like to do my first drafts with a sharp pencil and crisp paper on a clipboard and subsequent drafts on my laptop) and observed the things around me.

Life experience is one thing, Foundation Text is another, if the first is interpreted through the later on the basis of certainty one has to take whatever is espoused with a great deal of salt.

If you are experiencing some — or all — of these things, take heart.

My experience in being a team member and leading teams tells me that it just takes one loud voice to ruin an otherwise convivial gathering and that making things good for everyone requires satarising any pretentiousness and deconstructing any evil argument in order to render said loud voice powerless.

One thing she learns, from her first sexual experience, is to wonder why so much poetic ink has been spilled over something that takes so little time.

I am looking for authenticity, relevancy, no ovewhelming bands that take away from the experience of worship, clergy who are willing to answer my hard questions, who understand doubt is a stepping stone to deepening my belief, who accept everyone as Jesus did (and we know Jesus was a rebel who accepted and led all sorts of people), who don't feel the need to try to be hip, who speak about things without inserting politics, who are wiling to trash the temple to bring us back to the truth, who will step out of the box of comfort and be real.

A reader might take the phrase «the primal phenomenon» to mean or imply some fundamental consciousness of the self, as though the first and most apparent thing of all is «our own existence as experiencing subjects or selves.»

Remember, neither of you has a shred of external, verifiable evidence to back up anything you claim, so faced with conflicting beliefs supposedly backed by «personal experiences» or some such thing I haven't experienced, why should I take either of you seriously?

I don't mean to take comfort in others» misery, but it is somehow comforting to know we are not alone in the things we have experienced.

My experience as a priest — people do take these things very seriously which is precisely why the Pope is writing to pastors and Catholics to help them understand how better to discern.

It takes an adult self - consciousness — the experience of an adult living and trying to believe but knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing despair — to also know that there is a part of God that helps us through those obstacles, a part which is different from God's love or Christ's gift of salvation.

He should have never taken this job as president — he did not have the experience and has proven he can not change things.

In our ordinary experience, we take things to be harmonic structures embodying some appreciable worth, even when this worth is subordinated to a factual function in an instrumental relation.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

When I experienced that cathedral and city as a child, I saw an ordered, peaceful, gentle England in which two things were entirely taken for granted among all classes: that the courts were just and that we were free people.

Speaking on whether the letter will help he said: «I think we have experienced in the past that if there's international people speaking out about these things then some governments at least do take notice.»

And yes I did go through once for me to take out my endowments after that it has been a learning experience because, like reading a book over and over or seeing a movie more than once, you learn different things depending on what's happening in your life at the time.

More blood and repression has taken place in the human experience due to religion than any other thing.

Moffat is at his best when he takes something we all know and experience and then turns it into THE SCARIEST THING EVER.

But I would claim the opposite... that it takes far more rigor, and more than just intellectual, to finally see, know, and experience the oneness of all things and to promote this oneness in our fractured world that so many Christians and theologians would like to perpetuate.

As frustrating as it is to experience this sort of patriarchy within the Church, we can take courage knowing that it doesn't have to be this way, that things can and will change.

It should be easier to believe that at this point Whitehead was not thinking of events in nature as having subjectivity or experience, when we see how many thinkers today affirm the intrinsic value of the natural world and the interconnectedness of all things without taking this step.

We experience at first hand and take for granted deep recurrences of types of things.

But human life together, like the life of each one of us, is a becoming, not a static thing; it is a direction taken, a routing of experiences, toward a goal that is valued as important.

After Acid Rap, a mixtape full of content reflecting its title, Chance experienced a complete U-turn when his grandma prayed over him, saying: «Lord, I pray that all things that are not like You, You take away from Chance.

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

Beyond the use of the imagination in widening our experience of the world and refining our consciousness, the use of the imagination in religion can save us from another problem — namely, the tendency to take pleasure in cruel things.

«Values are after all worth achieving,» says Cobb, because «all things in the world are taken up into God's experience.»

... In England one is experiencing a demythologization... of theology which recognizes that many things normally or originally taken as dogmas must now be considered as myths.