Sentences with phrase «wonder at my ability»

Many people, including the physicist Richard Feynman, have wondered at their ability.

Many of my friends wonder at my ability at this stage of the game to still stand behind that counter, bagging crickets and doling out words of wisdom regarding leopard gecko breeding and vine snake diets.

Not exact matches

So no wonder when aspiring business owners attempt to burnish their leadership ability, they often think that being at the top takes exceptional character and heroic actions.

Anyone wondering why Canadians sometimes lose faith in government's ability to get anything done should read a report that the country's auditors general released at the end of March.

Isaacson noted Da Vinci's «willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than century later... His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we've outgrown our wonder years».

Short term, it might just be a couple customers here and there who use it and we're excited enough by that, but long term the ability to process payments at much lower fees will do wonders for us financially.

These include: the feeling of deep trust and at - homeness inside oneself, with others, and in the universe; a fundamental respect for self, others, and nature; the ability and the inclination to give and receive love; a lively awareness of the wonder of the commonplace — awe in the presence of a new baby, a sunset, a friendship; a philosophy of life that makes sense and guides decisions toward responsible behavior; a dedication with enthusiasm to the larger good of persons and society.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

The positional awareness, the ability to score wonder goals, the vision that he showcase at times and the recycling of possession.

Frankly any half decent striker will be better than the awful pairing of Giroud and Walcott, what a complete disappointment these 2 have been, and for the uptenth time I find myself wondering how they manage to sleep at night, knowing fully well Wenger staked our hopes of winning the title on their scoring ability and they failed so miserably..

Let's get real here.It is very unlikely that ANY professional player will ever say anything derogatory about a teammate that has just left the club.If Jack had said about Coq - «Grew up playing with him in the Youth Team and have fond memories of a player they though he had very limited ability he always gave his all.Very surprised and disappointed the club never invested in a World Class defensive midfielder that we have quite obviously been lacking for a number of seasons and would no doubt have improved the defensive weakness we have shown over a number of seasons» we would have echoed his thoughts entirely.If he had said about Theo - «A player who should have been so much better than he ended up being.He had everything needed to be a prolific player for our club but I can understand the fans frustrations with his continued lack - lustre performances and total lack of a football brain.I think this is best explained by the managers preference to play a player of such limited ability as Alex Iwobi in front of Theo pretty much says it all» we again would have all nodded our agreement.Although Jack never mentioned Alexis Sanchez I would imagine something along the lines of «If the Manager had not persisted with players with such limited ability such as Francis and Theo and instead bought the world class players needed into the club then Sanchez would still most likely be here.The fans must wonder what the hell goes on at the club as they pay fortunes for the privalage of following our club but it seems the millions generated ends up purchasing a new Texas Ranch for the Owner or in a yearly renumeration of # 9million pounds to our manager».

Is it any wonder that the club are still looking at jacks fitness and ability to finish games before they make an offer.

He still has plenty of ability and more experience than almost any other top class keeper still playing, but at 36 - years old we have to wonder how long Cech can continue art the highest level.

Players with his inate ability don't tend to be found at lower league level, so I wonder what it was that kept him out of the Premiership talent hoover - bag?

All weekend long Sweetness found it very convenient that she had the ability to open her door and wonder out at her leisure.

«He's asked the conference to at least let him proceed to do the work of the people in the next several weeks,» said Bonacic, who said he wonders whether the «cloud of a pending indictment» will hamper the conference's ability to get things done.

Spelke, of course, was the natural choice to debate this topic, not only because she was a prominent, highly accomplished scientist at Summers's university but because she got there by studying precisely the innate abilities Summers wondered about.

I was wondering if this affects the body's natural ability to produce melatonin at appropriate times.

You've been working hard all week at losing weight, watching what you're cooking with and what you are eating, but have you ever wondered whether what your ingesting (other than food) is perhaps altering your body's ability to lose weight?

Teach the same curriculum to the same tests at the same speed with the same pedagogy with teachers who have fixed mindsets about student achievement - no wonder grouping to ability doesn't save the planet.

But if the same model could also be used to indicate that Phil Jackson improved Kobe Bryant's performance when he was in high school, we might wonder whether the model was truly able to separate Jackson's ability as a coach from his good fortune at being surrounded by extremely talented players.

FINDING FOCUS Ah, our techno - centric era — the immediacy of texting, the wonders of wireless, the ability to take photos of anything at any time and send them to anyone.

Second, if the inflation hedging ability of stocks is a dead and buried issue, it makes me wonder why researchers like Bekaert and Wang, Dimson et al., Warr, and others are still chipping away at this question as late as 2012.

I always heard him say that the chances of meeting another player were extremely small, which made me wonder why they'd bother implementing the ability to see other players at all.

Yes, the random encounters on the world map were perhaps a little too frequent by today's standards, but the ability to simply walk across a vast world, always wondering what the game would throw at you next felt really unique for the time.

Although it makes perfect sense that a small - statured goblin would be better at hiding than fighting, the constant sneaking around quickly grows tedious and further developed abilities would do wonders for the adventure.

Featuring a more involved remake compared to Wonder Boy Returns, features include an additional playable girl, remastered art, sound and music and the ability to switch between the remake and the original game at any time.

As cool as the Rush Adaptors are at first, you can't help but wonder why they weren't just made into Robot Master abilities.

With approximately one hundred works, from his paintings of consumer products in the early 1920s to the work left on his easel at his death in 1964, the exhibition will highlight Davis's unique ability to transform the chaos of everyday life into a structured yet spontaneous order that communicates the wonder and joy that can be derived from the color and spatial relationships of everyday things.

Anyone wondering why Canadians sometimes lose faith in government's ability to get anything done should read a report that the country's auditors general released at the end of March.

We had a marketing director who said that we really had to do the right thing, and we looked at the numbers, and it turned out that we would have had to raise our prices so high that we would have had dramatically limited our ability to reach a lot of customers or we would have had to cut our margin, which would have meant we would have had to dramatically limit our profitability, so we really wondered: what's the right thing?

Don't forget that scientists have wondered at lightning's ability to emit x-rays for many years now.

[1] Because she was divested of her ability to otherwise tell her story, I wondered whether it could be that Ashley Smith subsequently used self - harm, at least sometimes and partially, meaningfully, either communicatively, or as political resistance, or both.

If you're trying to decide between the two cameras, or wondering if the upgrade is worth the $ 200 for a Nest Cam, you can see the answer lies in the mount and the ability to record at 1080p.

«Short term, it might just be a couple customers here and there who use it and we're excited enough by that, but long term the ability to process payments at much lower fees will do wonders for us financially.

Demonstrating your knowledge in your field and ability to communicate at the same time can do wonders for your job prospects.

Surveys have shown that having a sense of humour, and the freedom to express yourself at work, works wonders for people's careers, productivity, ability to innovate and personal happiness.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.