Sentences with phrase «vision of the purpose»

Some re-imaging, however, is a pre-requisite of any possible vision of purpose in the universe.

We are rightly impatient with the institutionalism of the empirical church when (as is so often the case) it seems to have lost the vision of its purpose.

A book that made a case for their vision of the purposes of education against those of «corporate reformers» might have been very interesting, but that is not the book they wrote.

And from the beginning their vision of the purpose of a great museum was to provide...

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I've witnessed many entrepreneurs who may not be described as having the highest levels of self - control, kick into full gear when they finally realize their vision and purpose.

Getting people aligned on a vision or common purpose is one of the primary roles of a leader.

Your vision is the essence of your legacy, your «why» and your purpose.

Whereas vision is a clear idea of where you're going, a sense of purpose refers to an understanding of why you're going there.

Contrary to the «uselessness» of a vision statement reported by some, they do serve a purpose: to identify a company's future optimal state.

McDonald replaced Lafley's strategy with a new vision called «purpose - inspired growth,» or, as he put it to anyone who asked, «touching and improving more consumers» lives, in more parts of the world, more completely.»

I have seen many parents and children bond through the experience of starting a business and having an activity that brings a common vision and purpose.

Brigadier General Stanley McChrystal is fond of saying that leadership starts with a shared purpose — when talented masons, carpenters, and glassworkers can all see the vision past their individual craft and know that they're part of the team «building the cathedral.»

It is a mindset seeking to turn around our conception of good business towards a more holistic vision of profit and purpose.

Marillyn A. Hewson, 2018 Edison Achievement Award Honoree and Chairman, President & CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and members of her executive team addressed last week's Edison Awards audience on the topic of Visions of the Future: Innovating with Purpose.

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Directors must agree to support the Purpose, Vision and Mission of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

We request information that is relevant to skills, expertise, interests, and experience appropriate for our Board of Directors and its responsibility for our Purpose, Vision and Mission.

The following characteristics are of fundamental importance in the recruitment of new Board members to support the Purpose, Vision, Mission of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade

The final product is a personal vision board for the year — a place where all my goals, hopes, plans, and purposes are represented on one neat, tidy piece of paper.

Elements of Mission and Vision Statements are often combined to provide a statement of the company's purposes, goals and values.

when you said you are suspicious of vision - casting, and purpose driven junk.

If the goal is freedom from the rigidity of those concepts — then isn't freedom in and of itself a goal / purpose / vision / misson wrapped into one concept?

--- Is freedom in the community lost if someone of the community suddenly has designs, vision, plans, goals, purposes, expetations and expresses them and moves on them?

People without any temporal horizons — without any historical purpose or vision of the future — grow enervated and decadent, and they begin to follow strange gods, who promise them meaning.

Can we gather free of designs, visions, plans, goals, purposes, expectations and conformations?

You write: Can we gather free of designs, visions, plans, goals, purposes, expectations and conformations?

In this community of freedom, will I be allowed to have the freedom to have «designs, visions, plans, goals, purposes, expectations?»

YOU: If the goal is freedom from the rigidity of those concepts — then isnâ $ ™ t freedom in and of itself a goal / purpose / vision / misson wrapped into one concept?

I would hazzard to say that the «leadership» would gather together and come to a resolve what is priority and what is the «purpose», «vision», «mission, «identity» of who we are.

And whilst I understand concerns surrounding institutionalisation of the church we can't get away from the fact for a community to function effectively requires structure, strategy and systems as well as values and vision to carry out its purpose's.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

But these churches are not able to present a sufficiently convincing vision of what faith is, or of purposes worth living for, to evoke more than fragmentary commitment.

For me, my God, all joy and all achievement, the very purpose of my being and all my love of life, all depend on this one basic vision of the union between yourself and the universe.

Harvey Cox captures this facet of play well when he describes festivity as»... a brief recess from history making» which nonetheless restores our vision to recreate history.38 «Phenomenologically, play is complete in itself,» Richard Burke observes, «although it may serve other purposes as well.

On this point, he placed himself in alliance with Arthur Holmes and quoted approvingly of Holmes» criticisms that Clark had not properly understood the purpose of philosophy to elaborate a vision of life through a number of sources, including the philosopher's own historical context.

There is some truth to the claim that Protestantism thrives within an apocalyptic vision of life, while Catholicism prefers to speak of nature and nature's purpose — but this is too simplistic.

I can remember in college and graduate school reading Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Beckett, and Camus while bemoaning with everyone else, including the teacher, the loss of a shared vision about the purpose of human life.

Quite the contrary, its purpose is to argue that the fundamental Thomist vision of finite existence as pointing to its self - sufficient cause is fully compatible with a doctrine of God that can embody the real strengths of the Thomist position without entailing its religiously and logically unsatisfactory conclusions.

In A Hobbit Journey, the reader has to plough through 17 pages of a rather diffuse introduction before Dickerson explicitly states the purpose of his book, and even then it is somewhat vague: it will explore the question «What can we learn from hobbits and from their vision of the Good Life, and how does that apply to our own present situation?»

Regarding knowledge of possibility, we can, for present purposes, avoid discussing the well - known difference between Whitehead and Hartshorne as to whether God has a primordial vision of all eternal objects (possibility), as Whitehead asserts, or whether God derives eternal objects from the world, as Hartshorne does.

I am thinking that if we were as consistent with our vision of God's purpose for creation they could not accuse God of poor communication skills.

This power to enable participation, so that the new is not only what comes to us but a new reality which we ourselves make as we express our own creativity and purpose, is one of the great functions of narrative vision, and it must be an aspect of any future - oriented vision which is really open to the new.

«They were in one place, they were of one accord, they were of one heart, they had one purpose, they had one vision... When we have the unity of Acts, we'll have the power of Acts,» he told the audience,» We're just not willing to pay the price for Pentecost.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

The writers saw themselves as ethnographers, in James P. Spradley's definition of the term: «The purpose of ethnography is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world» (The Ethnographic Interview).

After months of research, planning, writing, and rewriting, I came up with a 46 page document which contained my Mission Statement, Vision Statement, Purpose Statement, as well as a my Values and Goals.

The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort — Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 529f.13

I have changed it slightly to indicate that our goal is to critique both the primal and modern visions of human being and society in the light of each other and in the light of the theological vision of God's purpose for the future of humankind.

CALL FOR A CULTURE WITH VISION We've had bad experiences in modern times with the immanent eschatologies of the people who wanted to build heaven on earth or re-establish Eden - with Marxists and all the rest, who demanded, in one way or another, that the ultimate purposes of humankind be achieved.

The purpose is pragmatic, and as a result these visions are adequate instruments for the end in view, but they contain nothing from the domain of truth or of spiritual revelation.