Sentences with phrase «think as a society»

«I do think we as a society we all need to come to together as a Church to say this is fundamentally a good thing, this should happen, we need to have an open discussion about it.»

I think as a society we have been led by marketing and commercialism to choose products and the lifestyles associated with them as a way of setting ourselves apart from others instead of making choices based on who we honestly are and what we truly need.

I think as a society we are so confused about what is ideal.

I think we as a society can all agree that Ashton Kutcher is way more famous than he has any right to be.

I think as a society we have forgotten what true mastery looks like for a class of students and the effects are cumulative over a student's school years.

I think we as a society, and as an industry, need to seriously re-examine how we distribute and pay for content, and it may be best to simply create a new class of intellectual property (ugh I hate that word so misleading) for digital goods, in the spirit of copyright, but which actually was designed with digital content in mind.

You wrote, «I'm an educator, and I think as a society we are doing very poorly in instilling a basic respect / faith in the scientific method.»

I'm an educator, and I think as a society we are doing very poorly in instilling a basic respect / faith in the scientific method.

Not exact matches

Ms McGowan said society had a tendency to think about workplace injury in terms of visible injury, such as amputations or lacerations.

«When I think of the perfect analogy for what we're suffering as a society, it's getting on an airplane,» Sutton said.

Greycroft co-founder Alan Patricof said Friday that Amazon is «not necessarily» a bad company, but urged that «as a society we have to think about the fact that, you know, at what point do we say we're destroying the fabric of America?»

Gordon's basic argument is essentially that lawyers play too important a role in modern society for them to think of themselves as solely beholden to their clients.

Then the question comes if you've managed to do that, you as a society, then the next question is about things like purpose and those kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think about.

Society as a whole is full of negative group - think.

«The researchers think pre-questions probably have this benefit because they act as an «orienting device», directing viewers to look out for specific information, and perhaps also because they reduce viewers» complacency and overconfidence in their knowledge, thus motivating them to pay more attention,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest's write - up of the findings.

Government isn't working as well as it once did so «it does fall, I think, not just on business but on all other areas of society to step up,» he tells New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

As increasingly fast - paced change grips our economy and society, it's clear that it's time for unions to think about doing things in a new way.

So I think as long as readers — whether they admit it publicly or not — as long as readers have a hunger for true, critical, funny stories about how the system works and about the concentration of money and power in modern society, as long as they have that appetite, then a site like Gawker.com is going to have a continued purpose.

SAN FRANCISCO — When Steve Jobs adopted «think different» as Apple's mantra in the late 1990s, the company's ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart and a constellation of other starry - eyed oddballs who reshaped society.

They found that the people who were able to choose what to think about experienced a greater reduction of high - arousal negative emotions and a boost in low - arousal positive ones, as Christian Jarrett writes in a piece about the findings for the British Psychological Society research digest.

You can't link your happiness or your sense of fulfillment to the expectation of what you think society sees as success.

«It's a government - induced result, which I think makes sense for society and makes sense for our consumers, and it makes sense for Berkshire as an investor,» says Buffett.

Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

«As technology jumps forward and people are changing preferences we have to think long and hard about what the public sector offers to people when it comes to money and how do we facilitate people living in society getting access to money in the forms and shapes they prefer them to be,» Skingsley said.

«I think sometimes society has a bit of an overbearing attitude where we treat children as if they don't know how to do stuff,» he replied, «when sometimes they're more sophisticated than you could ever imagine.

I mean there are real issues to that — that prevent, I think, both us being able to get [their] opinion and benefit from [them], and from us being able to have a good discourse as a society.»

Elissa's significant role in merging the Institute of Certified Financial Planners (ICFP) and the International Association for Financial Planning (IAFP) to form the Financial Planning Association, her contributions as a thought leader to the advancement of the profession through her writing, presenting, and teaching, and her contributions to society and the profession through her work at the Foundation for Financial Planning were highlighted as she received the award.

I think our listeners are aware of the SWIFT system (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), we really have two sets of governments in the world, the developed countries and countries that I will simply refer to as the «bricks».

By reducing the potential for clone - like mindsets that traditional systems can incur, Trinkler hopes to enable future generations to not only think in unique ways, but also to build tools that are beneficial to the collective good of society as a whole.

This is funny since he only thinks there was a god because like most people that's what's been drummed into their heads by preachers and society as a whole....

And in society, I think people look down on those men who attend strip clubs as much as they look down on strippers themselves.

While such practices have their place, as a society we should be aware that these practices change how teachers think of students: not as budding learners, but potential shooters; not with the potential to grow and flourish, but with the potential to enact lethal harm.

But I think it is wonderful that the Internet allows open discussion where many doubters to express their views here as we become a more open society.

Blacks alongside gays, alongside Hispanics, alongside the poor and the middleclass??? Shouldn't we all band together in a common cause - to be recognized and accepted, for equal rights for all members of our society??? Shouldn't the 99 % be the voice of this country - as opposed to the oppressive 1 %??? I think we should all band together - pushing for a common cause, and making America the true beacon of what a Modern society looks like!

I think it's unfair to discount the similarities of two completely separated societies by light years as nonesense on both sides.

«Dear Society, If you think a woman in a tan vinyl bra and underwear, grabbing her crotch and grinding up on a dance partner is raunchy, trashy, and offensive but you don't think her dance partner is raunchy, trashy, or offensive as he sings a song about «blurred» lines of consent and propagating rape culture, then you may want to reevaluate your acceptance of double standards and your belief in stereotypes about how men vs. women «should» and are «allowed» to behave.

So if God understood Adam's lonliness maybe it makes sense he created Eve for partnership first and foremost, not for some sexual activity (as our society seems to want to think).

If 90 % of the country believed in the tooth fairy and thought we should all live by laws originating in the tooth fairy and run our country according to the tooth fairy's wisdom, you'd probably be on blogs dealing with the tooth fairy and arguing against the use of her existence as a basis for running society.

Think of society as a whole without contraception and the overpopulation problem.

... Only until what we are told and instructed on how to live by others - parents - society... As if none of us have a consciousness thought on our own conclusion of life... Something to think about...

I think our problem in society is that we label ourselves as things like «Christians» and «liberals».

But these polling results suggest that many are having second thoughts and want countervailing forces at work in society as we experiment with moral deregulation.

Because girls are rarely involved and some think gay dudes can hide in society easier as a priest.

I think being raised in a society that teaches that American capitalism as an ideal way to live may have trouble understanding how we don't earn God's love.

We will be doomed as a society when we fail to distinguish between reality and fantasy, wide awake time and dream time, when we sacrifice collective engagement to (re) solve together difficult problems for facination with rumors of conspiricy and a propensity for magical and delusional thinking.

I think a discussion about affairs and monogamy and about how we deal with that longing both individually and as a society is warranted but I don't think you try to tackle two extremely difficult subjects like that (religion and monogamy) in one film.

I've been thinking often lately about the materialism which seems to pervade every aspect of our North American society, and more often, about the materialism and consumerism that has spread to the church as well.

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

While our founders greatly valued religion as a public instructor of virtue, Rousseau thought that religions should only have educational power in spheres not relevant to society at large, and further that the state should determine those precise boundaries.

Christians in places like Egypt and Palestine want to cast their lot with the others of their own societies; they don't want to be thought of as dubious citizens.