Sentences with phrase «ways of acting»

This puts forward alternative ways of acting that the parent already possesses in his repertoire of sensitive behaviours, and which are therefore more likely to be reproduced.

The emotional journey of divorce involves letting go of old ways of relating (as spouses) and learning new ways of acting including how to be co-parents if the couple has children.

We inherit genetic tendencies and traits, learn ways of acting, thinking, feeling and relating, and we grow our own unique self within a group of oddball people we call our family.

There are still things to try, new methods to approach, new ways of acting to make the relationship better.

An aside for researchers and human resource professionals: The competencies included in this toolkit build off the long legacy of Harvard professor David McClelland, who, among other accomplishments, pioneered the field of measuring individuals» «competencies,» or ways of acting and thinking that distinguish high performers on the job.

Inquiry within this phase of the group interactions is subtle; people here can become sensitive to their cultural norms; ways of acting and thinking they assume must be true because they are their only point of reference.

They also provide vicarious experiences where people can «try on» new ways of acting and responding».

«From birth, through every interaction a child has with people around her, she is picking up ways of doing things from other people in her culture, ways of acting, ways of talking, ways of thinking, through all the tiny, everyday lessons of living.»

This suggests that IKKß — and with it, NF - κB — has two ways of acting on cancer, says Karin.

But, there are ways of acting out that tremendously increase learning — namely acting out as a way of grounding, or making sense of, abstract information.

Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical thought, with its influence upon other ways of thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk about individuals and equally about substance.

Hence the view developed that in and of itself, as absolute act, nonviolence is of no direct value; that the principle of nonviolence must lead to ways of acting that are valid expressions of authentic love of neighbor.

The way a congregation uses power to adapt its resources is shaped by its culture, its characteristic ways of acting, speaking and socializing.

We listened to Erich Fromm, an American psychiatrist, who said that no one ever thinks his way into new ways of acting; he always acts his way into new ways of thinking.

Then the search for ways of acting that would please the gods had indeed been baffling, but now a moral puzzle was added to man's bewilderment.

In other words, the choice of certain ways of acting is always and radically incompatible with the love of God and the dignity of the human person created in His image.»

If what is demanded of me by high moral principles also leads to my deliverance in a situation where not to act in accordance with these ethical demands or to continue in my same ways of acting leads to my destruction, then there are possibilities for basic transformations of my ideas, attitudes, and goals.

Now it is of course true that any «system», any society or culture, will encourage certain ways of acting, both good and bad.

Your goal isn't to eliminate the emotions, rather brainstorm alternative ways of acting that better serve you.

In this companion article to God's Way of Acting by N. T. wright, the author thinks the birth stories of Jesus are metaphorically true, though not historically factual.

No, the suggestion that God works in the world by introducing through subjective aims new information about the past world not otherwise available to temporal beings just will not wash — all of us know of too many counterexamples to this way of conceiving of God's way of acting in the world.

Cheerfulness is a way of acting, not a feeling.

God's way of acting toward others seems terribly unfair at times because He decides to be generous, loving, forgiving, gracious, and merciful to those who didn't earn it, work for it, or deserve it.

The opposition is really to be sought between one way of acting which is contraceptive and opposed to a prudent and generous fruitfulness, and another way which is, in an ordered relationship to responsible fruitfulness and which has a concern for education and all the essential, human and Christian values.»

A further fruit of the Council is our deepened understanding of God and his way of acting in history.

Often I assert that everyone ought to act in a certain way, or simply that that way of acting is right without qualification.

LOADS of managers have tried to play this card with Wenger but he has a way of acting at the end of a game and it is petty to believe he should change this for you because you decided to run off and celebrate.

, manager, modern «classy» way of acting (another horse laugh) So what exactly?

* Every situation, every baby, every parent is different... and not being tied to any one way of acting — in other words, being flexible — allows intuitive responses to those situations that work far better than anything mandated «just because.»

As the old adage has it, it is much easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than think your way into a new way of acting.

Additionally it would be wrong to claim that the Rwandan government's way of acting radically differs from that witnessed in past dam building.

According to independent legal advice given to the Welsh Liberal Democrats, as neither the Welsh Ministers nor the Secretary of State has the power to change that formula, implementing the rate relief recommendations would require primary legislation either by way of an Act of the Assembly or an Act of Parliament.

It was something about what I really want and what gets in the way of me acting on it the way that I really want to, and I left my session with my therapist giving me a pat on the back saying, «You said something insightful and also really heard yourself say it.»

In the way of acting, this is probably as close to a one - man show as Clooney's ever gotten, with him being in almost every scene, and everyone else being window dressing.

We're very close and he changed my way of acting completely.

But Schepisi slowly peels away a multitude of layers behind each of its characters, revealing secrets and motivations behind the way each of them acts.

Or is it simply that Kevin is a tragic and gruesome outlier: a freak exaggeration of the banal fact that boys get angry at their parents, angry at their schools, angry at new baby siblings, angry at themselves, and will find some way of acting out?

This is also an excellent example of a new and innovative way of acting.

This dance is the classic example of Balinese way of acting out mythology, resulting in myth and history being blended into one reality.

Naoko went through all of the voice and made sure it wasn't going to get in the way of the acting, while keeping it as close to the spirit of the original as possible.

They had to do so that nothing would get in the way of the act of painting.»

Duchamp's Fountain, his upturned urinal signed R Mutt on the porcelain, may not seem to demand much in the way of an act of looking, but the initial shock of its appearance in an art gallery has profoundly affected the art of the past 80 - odd years.

Permit yourself to drift from what you are reading at this very moment into another situation, another way of acting within the historical and psychic geographies in which the event of your own reading is here and now taking place; here, and now taking the place of other ways of making passionate and energetic connections between us.

The examination of different situations and their impact on people's way of acting is typical of Thomas Struth's work.

MGK Not that 60 is a particular way of acting.

One critic recently wrote that he felt that in all the artists in the first generation there was one element in common: a syntactical conception (having to do with surface, paint quality, a way of acting before the canvas).

Sherlock argues that the very idea of performance as such seems counter-intuitive, as its very identification as art distinguishes its existence as a «stylized, hyper - codified way of acting and interacting.»

My piece will attempt to look beyond food fights and public biases toward catastrophe (it's not just media) and propose a way of acting — amid the waves of debate — that provides a least - regrets course forward.

The agreement, and the procedures it has caused CGSB to impose upon the drafting committee's working group, violate all three of the foundation principles of the process of «voluntary standardization,» created by the Standards Council of Canada Act (s. 4), and the Council's CAN - P - 1:2012 text, Program Requirements for the Accreditation of Standards Development Organizations and for the Approval of National Standards of Canada, which is treated as having the authority of a regulation created by way of the Act.

Now I'm no new age scholar but there is a great technique called mindfulness that says if you acknowledge an old behavior and give yourself permission to stop it instead of getting angry with yourself for doing it, you will be able to move past it quicker and develop a new, healthier way of acting.