Sentences with phrase «thought and effort on»

Lots of plans, goals, and a vision, a picture of what we want our life together to be like at different stages of our lives, and concrete thoughts and efforts on how to get there that impact us everyday.Some formal, some informal, some more rigid and fixed than others.

Not exact matches

This strategy takes a bit more preparation and effort, but if you can contact the trade show's management team in advance and pitch yourself a spot on a discussion panel, you'll be on your way to positioning yourself as a thought leader in your industry.
On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort
«Observers seem to think that go - getters exert less effort than slackers, even when they're working on the same task, and even though they themselves rated the assignment as equally difficult.
On the first workday of the year, months away from the close of the quarter, you have a chance to think about and discuss how your company's efforts transcend money or shareholder value.
A culture that rewards both creativity and efforts to try new things — without punishing the misses — fosters the development of savvy problem - solvers who can think on their feet and be energized vs. paralyzed by new challenges.
By following your efforts and thinking back on the activities you have already been doing, it's easier to identify what your passions are.
Virgin America has just turned six years old, and over that time we've put a lot of thought and effort into making flights enjoyable, while almost all of our competitors have focused solely on their bottom line.
It's possible to throw together a logo on a napkin or rudimentary piece of desktop software, but consider putting some more thought and effort into things.
Inspired by these efforts, and with some time to kill myself, I put on my thinking cap.
Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to talk about the business, at dinner, driving the car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.
This is what Albom's book did for me: It got me thinking about how fortunate I have been to have wonderful people guide me during my career and helped me refocus my efforts on being present as a mentor, a guide, a teacher, and a student.
For now, workplace applications for VR tend to be rather prosaic — think virtual conferencing — and much of the effort to create compelling content is focused on games and entertainment.
«I think it's a concerted effort that there is too much money to be made here and (they're) not going to be deterred by the structural or cultural defences (anymore),» said Chris Young, who works with companies on the receiving end of activist campaigns at Credit Suisse in New York.
Viewers know more about Vaynerchuk's companies and endeavors because he is putting in that extra effort to make his brand more human — and I don't think I would be going out on a limb to say that this human element has definitely contributed to his success and massive social following, which includes more than 1.17 million followers on Twitter.
Or, they do put thought and effort into planning for market research, promotion and positioning — and then never follow through on their great ideas.
And so as a part of our continued efforts to strengthen the commitment of the President and his administration to equal opportunity, we thought it would be productive to bring in the private - sector decision makers for a brainstorming session on diversity and inclusiAnd so as a part of our continued efforts to strengthen the commitment of the President and his administration to equal opportunity, we thought it would be productive to bring in the private - sector decision makers for a brainstorming session on diversity and inclusiand his administration to equal opportunity, we thought it would be productive to bring in the private - sector decision makers for a brainstorming session on diversity and inclusiand inclusion.
Here, for instance, is an NPR article explaining «a study that found cocoa flavanols can help boost mood and sustain clear thinking among adults who are engaged in intense mental efforts — like students cramming, or journalists on deadline.»
It lowers your reliance on willpower and motivation because, as Tynan, the author of Superhuman by Habit, says, habits are «action [s] that you take on a repeated basis with little or no required effort or thought
When Sen. John McCain (R - AZ) cast his now - famous thumbs - down vote on GOP health care efforts in late July, pessimism weighed even more, and in August, it was hard to find anyone in the professional investment community who thought a tax bill was even close to a sure thing.
Without having to worry about where workers live, you can focus your hiring efforts on those job candidates who have the qualifications and the desire to work for your organization, and those who you think would enjoy and thrive in the environment you've created.
Although it may seem like a simple and obvious content marketing strategy, managing content distribution across multiple LinkedIn groups means dedicating a great deal of time and effort on reading what others post and on sharing your thoughts within those discussions.
Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure investors their business models are compatible with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging with oil companies on the issue.
However, I think the awareness - raising effort is primarily directed at the public, and in particular those who can, by way of investment choices (whether as a shareholder or a tourist), put economic pressure on those decision - makers.
I think it's a vain effort, and focuses on the wrong segments, but nonetheless there is considerable uncertainty which always casts suspicions into the shadows.
In an effort to help investors cut through the noise, we outlined our take on three risks we think bear watching and one that should garner the immediate attention of investment professionals (i.e. fiduciary duty):
In addition to sharing his thoughts on Facebook, Dimon also spoke about his own company's efforts to create a diverse and inclusive workplace at his bank.
In my efforts to stay abreast of what is going on in the world outside my office, I follow the thoughts of several sales training and consulting organizations.
How do you think she would look at an initiative designed to complement those efforts and close the loop on ROI?»
«I think it's important to our efforts that we're constantly learning and building our reservoir of knowledge on great businesses» Christopher Begg
So instead of recommending Jaume, I'll turn you to what is, so far, a pretty solid recent collection on Tocqueville, which I know contains one particularly rich essay, «Tocquevillean Thoughts on Higher Education in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specifically.
if I can not rely on the bible, what should I rely on, as god come to earth and told man any bible is correct, in my view, I think gave word to more that one, and would like us to make effort to learn or try to understand each
Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»
It is refreshing to see such thought, and what must of been a decent amount of effort to find out the backstory on Mitt.
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.
While introducing his project of comparing Whitehead and Heidegger on time, Mason suggests that the paucity of previous efforts is «a function of the assumption that their modes of philosophizing are so different as to render the thought of the one completely irrelevant to that of the other» (p. 83).
He uses many names including Bill Deacon, he even writes his own responses in an effort to get many positive good praises on his thoughts and quotes..
With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.
Of course, it is often difficult to decide whether, despite a man's good will, his efforts to understand better the gospel and the doctrine of the Church have really caused him to depart from the truth) or whether a traditionalist sold on the old formulae only thinks so.
They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.
There is even a debate between those who think the devotee depends entirely on God's grace, like a kitten picked up by its mother, and those who think some human effort is also required like a baby monkey who has to cling on to its mother.
CT has previously reported on efforts to overturn Russia's 2016 anti-evangelism law, what Russian evangelicals think of Donald Trump, and Putin's popularity among them.
These essays too show remarkable staying power, particularly the provocatively titled «On the Political Stupidity of the Jews,» his own exploration of the familiar puzzle of American Jews» fierce, visceral, but in many ways irrational and self - defeating commitment to liberalism, and his suggestions for a possible way forward in that regard» an effort to formulate a sound and well - grounded tradition of specifically Jewish political thought.
In this effort I hope to show that Hartshorne's thought is an improvement with respect to some of the weaker features of virtue ethics as it has been defended by some recent philosophers, in particular regarding the allegation made by virtue ethnicians that deontology and utilitarianism are defective because they depend on abstract rules.
He should indicate the major alternative viewpoints that are live options in our pluralistic culture; this may require an effort to inform himself concerning the current thought of scientists, theologians, and philosophers on the point at issue.
The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.
Like the way «god» gave the world «salvation» only tens of thousand of years LATE, we are to believe that «god» also gave us «medicine,» but only after we had suffered for TENS OF THOUSANDS of years AND only after we figured everything out ON OUR OWN??? That is one sadistic «god» to put us through all that deception... making us merely think it was solely by our own efforts that we could even... oh say, IDENTIFY things like heart disease and cancer and have even a chance to combat thAND only after we figured everything out ON OUR OWN??? That is one sadistic «god» to put us through all that deception... making us merely think it was solely by our own efforts that we could even... oh say, IDENTIFY things like heart disease and cancer and have even a chance to combat thand cancer and have even a chance to combat thand have even a chance to combat them.
This afternoon I'll post new synchroblog links, signs, thoughts on yesterday's big news, and an update on our Charity: Water fundraising effort.
If a man has not enough passion to make either the one movement or the other, if he loiters through life, repenting a little, and thinks that the rest will take care of itself, he has once for all renounced the effort to live in the idea — and then he can very easily reach and help others to reach the highest attainments, i.e. delude himself and others with the notion that in the world of spirit everything goes as in a well - known game of cards where everything depends on haphazard.
And that would make me very sad, to think our denomination, which prides itself on a loose structure, was not lose enough to accomodate your efforts, which I think are wonderful.
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