Sentence examples for direct our actions from inspiring English sources

We should really direct our actions only against identifiable problems that lend themselves to legislative solutions.

"If we hold ourselves responsible for our behavior — none of which is entirely voluntary — we are more likely to consciously direct our actions rather than succumbing to impulse".

If we perceive fear as loosing and shameful, we let it direct our actions...the fear is our enemy and destroys us.

This is not as a matter of assigning or accepting blame, but of owning the fact of what has happened and recognizing that what is needed are actions to put the past behind us so we can focus and direct our actions and policies on creating the future we want.

We recognized the importance of having black folks from Ferguson really take the lead on directing our actions.

This is to lurch to the other extreme, typical of scientific materialists, who conclude that if there is no separate personality directing our actions, then our brains, bodies or genes must be operating on their own, without our having any conscious input.

We must find our own way not to let our cancer be in charge and to stop defining us and directing our actions.

Real free will, not a philosopher's fantasy, requires no more than these kinds of abilities to direct our own actions.

Whether we're yanked around by jealous gods, Oedipal urges or poltergeists, the idea that we feel powerless to direct our own actions has a visceral appeal, one exploited by Shankar Vedantam in "The Hidden Brain," his exploration of the unconscious mind.

Through our direct actions, our occupations, we have changed the international conversation.

If morals are based on reason so that they consist in true or false ideas, they would have to be in themselves incapable of having this direct influence on our actions (Hume, Treatise, Book III, Part I, Section I, Paragraph 6).