Sentences with phrase «thinking of people sitting»

In doing so, we can make the mistake of ascribing the same humanity to their methods, thinking of people sitting in front of laptops, typing code into a terminal window.

Typically when you think of people sitting and chatting on the porch, you might envision some sprawling farmhouse down south where people still do that sort of thing.

When I hear the word strategy, I think of people sitting around a long table, in a large conference room, with a whiteboard full of scribbles, arrows, and numbers.

Not exact matches

«We saw a generation of people who normally would have started thinking about investing for the future and getting 401 (k) s set up sit on the sidelines.

One memorable example is the much covered study that revealed large percentages of people (a quarter of women and two thirds of men) prefer giving themselves a painful electric shock to just sitting with their own thoughts for 15 minutes.

«As soon as you say that, you think it's a bunch of old people sitting on couches watching TV.

However, if you sit people down once a year, take out a well - thought - out PowerPoint that you've been practicing for two weeks, and passionately lay out your goals and objectives for the next year, you have a good chance of getting people's attention.

When the co-founder of California - based Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) isn't sitting in the middle of a 70 - person trading room or staring at a Bloomberg machine, he's doing yoga at a health club across the street, thinking of his best ideas.

The number of people that are paid to sit there and think deep thoughts and really create things is a pretty small number.

While you are sitting in your bedroom thinking of trips to Aspen, Mojitos in Miami and dinners on the French Riviera, clients need help, people need better experiences and industries in general need to be disrupted.

Everyone might think they have the best people working for them, but sitting down and doing some objective evaluation on the kinds of players you really have inside is difficult.

Most of the time it's easy to dismiss the person sitting quietly in the corner as weird or anti-social, but instead of thinking that, you should ask yourself, what are they seeing or thinking right now?

«People might think of a dean sitting in his office just drinking coffee and enjoying perks,» he says.

It was while sitting on the board that she was reminded of the perception gap that exists in Australia between what people think directors do and what actually happens.

«It's kind of fun to sit there and out think people who are way smarter than you are because you've trained yourself to be more objective and more multi-disciplinary.

I know people who have been sitting on large sums of money since 2011, because that's when they thought the market was on the verge of collapsing again.

Further, do you really think I would sit back and do nothing while Nazis killed 6 million of my «chosen people,» but find it important enough to intervene and turn water into wine to stop some hosts being embarrassed at a wedding in Cana?

I'm thinking Mr Professor didn't actually sit with many people and experience the act of death.

I cintend that the bible also calls us to do the same thing — it calls us to action and then says when we have donr everything we can and there is nothing else we are to stand in faith that it will work out — of course i paraphrase — but wht do people think all christians do is sit on their butts and pray and look pie eyed at the sky - this christian worked her butt of on the streets - and look at Mother Thresa - and other christians working for humanity all over the world - i think athiests have the wrong idea about chtistians...

For crying out loud — why would ANYONE bother following the ideas of bronze - age people who all thought multiple gods created a small, flat Earth sitting at the center of a tiny universe rotating around it... daily.

But I think that if you re-read the entire post, you will see that I am not saying that Jesus calls people to leave the Church (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sermon.

And I certainly don't think we need a bunch of stuffy church people sitting around discussing Genesis 6 all day while people around them are dying and going to hell (that would be, a place of shame, right?).

I guess sometimes it's humbling to sit and think about how many people believe in every different religion no matter how different they are and then science and accepting the fact that a HUGE majority of people are going to be right or wrong when they die and some people spending their entire life trying to justify or prove something that may be wrong.

«People seem to think that if they can out - argue their Facebook buddy, then it has something to do with a guy sitting on a bench outside of St. Mark's,» she says.

But this is only true when we think of the church as a building that people enter and sit in a pew to sing and listen to a sermon.

He thought nothing of sitting down to eat with filthy people whose lives declared their contempt for religion.

If once a week, when we are at our place of worship, or just sitting and thinking, would we not be better people and better leaders if we examined ourselves this way?

I really like tips number four and five, because not a lot of people think about how much just sitting down and talking to someone can help them.

The «fence - sitting» is often just evidence that people are ACTIVELY thinking about the inherent conflict of the human experience, between the human and the divine, rather than completely committing oneself to an all - encompassing concept beforehand.

If a person is sitting at a table alone and is talking to an empty chair across from them, what are we to think of that person?

Instead of praying to make - believe people, get a good cup of tea or coffee and go on and sit down and collect your damn thoughts.

If a person is sitting at a table alone and they close their eyes and bow their head and talk, what are we to think of that person?

I've sat in churches and heard people talking about the strength of black women, and I'm looking at the congregation and I'm thinking, «I don't know if I see strength.»

The difficulty and the concerns I have for this subject is that instead of people being led to God through His only Son Jesus they will sit back instead of continuing on their life's journey thinking that all roads lead to God.

If they're reading this, I'd really for them to sit back for a minute and think about why they became Christians in the first place — because we're all pretty terrible at being good people and we all, Christian or not, do things that perpetuate the current state of the world.

Some NGOs sit in their ivory towers thinking they are doing good, but how many of them give people the dignity of attention and choice?»

So instead of praying to make - believe people, get a good cup of tea and go on and sit down and collect your damn thoughts.

If you take the time to sit and think about each and every story in the Bible, you will realize that none of it makes any rational sense to rational people.

I can't imagine anyone sitting around thinking to themselves: «Gee, I wonder whether I should choose to be straight, which is considered normal and acceptable; or perhaps choose to be gay, which is roundly condemned by a large percentage of otherwise intelligent people, considered a sin by many churches, was once illegal in most states, will likely result in my being shunned, abused, ridiculed, abandoned, abused, and beaten — possibly killed; will deny me many rights and advantages available to married people; may cost me jobs; and which in general will set me outside of society, marginalized and ostracized.

Do you know what that would cost us, while people are sitting around in the living rooms in the United States livid about the very thought of it?

Strange thoughts, fantasies, dreams, slips of the tongue, the jokes we think are funny, the place we sit in church, the way we feel when someone is angry, the things we remember, the people we like or don't like — all make sense when we understand their hidden meaning.

but i will not sit here and say anything bad because god said treat everyone like i want to be treated so go head and make fun of me that is fine people toile me i would finish school and i did and people told me that i would get marry and i did people told me i would have kids and i did so i think u are just like everyone else that told me i would do anything so i hope u understand u have hurt my feeling but i will let it go because god said to forgive everyone just like my mom gave me i forgive her to so i hope u ae happy

But if he were to sit down and talk with me and my wife, or with almost anyone who is on this same journey with God, I think he would discover that we are not falling away from God, but are drawing closer to Him and His people in ways that we never before thought possible — in ways we had only dreamed of when we were part of the institutional church.

sorry but dorvice is wrong in some case but in some case it is not because if a woman is being beat by a man what do u expect her to sit back and take it sorry that is wrong and when a man cheats that is allow not just that there is some woman that cheats but also most of the time it is because people do nt want to wok there problems out but i think people should think before they get married

i think people need to sit down and read the bible it is in there and we all have a right to preach and say what we will but god is the only judgeing person in the usa and i feel that we all need to look at what we have done instead of trying to bring the pastor of this church down and this pastor has the right to preach on what he believes and what it says in the bible i am going to follow what the bible says and in the bible it says that god says that no man and man should be in the bed togather or should no woman or woman be in the bed togather i went into town and my daughter was with me and ask me why these to woman was kissing each other now how are you to tell a child that is 7 that they are wife and wife that would sound weird

ok well in the bible it is against divorce also but god forgives to but it is still wrong and yes i am from nc and i do live in catawba country where this took place but i do nt have to sit around and watch people make out with each other and u know lesbians and gays should read the bible more pentcosal think the same way about that it is wrong for a man and man to be togather and a woman and woman to be togather and some of you people are just plan stupid and i think that some of you just need to think it is god place to judge this pastor and it might be old fashion but back in the ol days we did nt have all this volice and all these crimes but look now there is alot of crime and volice and all we are doing is mad that a pastor said how he felt about gays and lesbiens

I think the convo has delved into Christian people sitting too close to violence and too far from their personal admission they would do something of pressured to «help someone».

Rather than sitting here trying to calculate the end of our planet based on religious ideals, I think people really need to stop trying to influence others to think and do what they think and do.

I think the average person, and I don't mean to use that derogatorily, is not going to devote themselves to sitting down and reading the curriculum that has kept western civilization relatively stable for hundreds of years.

When I meet someone who identifies himself as Reformed, I make all kinds of assumptions — that he is stuck up, that he thinks Calvin must sit on the right hand of the Father, that he delights in the idea of people being predestined for hell, that he will call me «uninformed» and «unenlightened» when he finds out that I've explored Open Theism.