Writing good things about yourself is harder than you assume.
I mean, why would I want to go on Peeple and pretend I'm somebody else to
write good things about you?
Does that mean I don't
write good things about Cuomo?
If you're a visual person like me,
write the best things about your most successful outfit post on a stickie note and stick it somewhere on your wall or desk.
They can decide to
write good things about the companies that they are affiliated to in order to motivate customers to make buying decision.
Brought up in a culture where it's deemed rude to talk about ourselves in a positive light, I — like most of my fellow Brits — find it impossible to
write good things about myself.
Not exact matches
Sheryl took that as, I am going to
write about three
things I did
well every day.
Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City - based venture capital firm,
wrote a blog post on what it takes to be a great CEO, and he talks
about the core three
things you have to do
well:
Bill Gates has said, «Learning to
write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think
better, creates a way of thinking
about things that I think is helpful in all domains.»
Calling Facebook a «a sewer of misinformation,» Joshua Benton of Harvard's Nieman Lab
wrote in a post published Wednesday, «Our democracy has a lot of problems, but there are few
things that could impact it for the
better more than Facebook starting to care — really care —
about the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.»
You're onto the next
thing immediately, you're getting feedback from the people you
write for all the time, and that makes you
better and it makes you understand what they want to read
about or listen to or watch.
«By now, you've spent a
good portion of your life learning
things about yourself, steering those
things in different directions, hiding them, claiming new identities and any number of other adjustments we all make (consciously or not),» Kurtz
writes.
After 10 weeks, the people who had
written about things they were thankful for reported being more optimistic and feeling
better about their lives.
«There really is a
best time to do just
about anything and everything, and that's especially true when it comes to buying
things,»
writes Mark Di Vincenzo in his book, «Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon»
You don't need to be a professional writer; all that's required is that you're passionate
about the same
things as we are and that you can
write well in English.
Well you know let's also talk
about, go back to the financial repression part because one
thing I've started to
write about and other people have also started to
write about is the possibility that we finally get some inflation.
So I started
writing the book and essentially what I quickly realized was that in trying to describe these
things most people were probably not going to have a
good idea of what I was talking
about.
The themes in it [are] the ever - present themes of adultery, as
well as a pretty heavy drinking theme in the song (which probably comes from the fact that I drink pretty heavily), but the most interesting part of it to me, the
thing I was most excited
about when I
wrote it was the bridge toward the end of the song where there's a car fire in the parking lot and all that stuff and the comment «what a cruel God we've got.»
In the latest issue of Spin magazine Michael Stipe says «I think I'm
better when I
write about things that are not me.»
Another
good example of a genius who utterly disproves Brooks's thesis is someone I have
written about before on the First
Things blog: the great chess player Jose Raul Capablanca (1988 — 1942).
One of the more surprising
things I discovered (or maybe it's not so surprising) is that while many of the churches did a
good job talking
about their services times, children's programs, and upcoming events, few
wrote much
about opportunities for -LSB-...]
the writer of this article is an idiot and he is not educated and does not have a brain because he has
written it with out having any info
about it.thats why little knowledge is dangerous.if he does nt know some
thing then he is
better off not
writing things he does not know
about
We talked a bit
about how I became a writer, discouragement, finding your voice, blogging, the difference between blogging and book
writing, why I decided to
write Jesus Feminist, my process as a writer, and the
best (and worst) parts of
writing among other
things.
No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those other religions did not have Jesus as a Savior and did not have men
writing 1000s of years apart talking
about the same events, and phrophecizing
about things that happened in later chapters
written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a
better teacher of life then in His words.
Or perhaps like the poor gullible fool you are, you just accept
things on faith knowing that nothing was
written about this character until 30 - 40 years after death and knowing that stories told like that so many years after could very
well hold little accuracy.
Before signing off, I think it's important to remind everyone that while I've tried my
best to
write about Modern Paganism from a variety of perspectives, it's a very subjective
thing, and you might hear completely different answers from other Pagans.
It looks like you will be
writing about some
good things, and commenting on other blogs is one of the
best way to let people know
about your blog.
Hereâ $ ™ s some of the
things that grabbed me: important theological / spiritual themes are developed through the story such as
good and evil, leadership, courage, love, forgiveness, and unity;
good character development; convincing geographical descriptions; it does feel like the same kind of worlds Tolkien, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis
wrote about.
«To support the Ins when
things are going
well; to support the Outs when they are going badly,» the latter
wrote in 1925, «this, in spite of all that has been said
about tweedledum and tweedledee, is the essence of popular government.»
We're talking
about discipline (or the lack of it), church today, new friend debriefings, the book I'm
writing, the school he's trying to finish (still) and how frustrating it is to work and work and still feel like you're just barely making ends meet because I do a lot of
things really
well but unfortunately, none of them make us much money.
But the only
thing that each of us can and should do is what we each must do ultimately alone, if we have vocations to be writers: Go off and
write out of the very fullness of human experience
about the very fullness of human experience and hope to find and affect contemporary readers and the greater world, and in the meantime leave the distracting and finally pointless diagnoses of who were the Catholic writers, and how much, and how
well, how little, how importantly, to the critics and scholars.
But one of the
things I've always loved
about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to
write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty
things as
well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as
well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses
about this stuff.
@MarcParell — I think that your post describes
well some of the
things that are attractive, even charismatic and inspiring
about Ayn Rand and her
writing.
Well — same
thing can be said for all the generations of folk who
wrote down all the words from which you derived you've formed your own theories
about «in the beginning»...
It is my conviction that if a theologian doesn't know the culture and times
well enough to speak and
write in ways that people understand, then the theologian doesn't know the first
thing about theology.
One of the
things he told me
about really excited me, especially in light of the book I am
writing, Close Your Church for
Good.
Jeff: This is what causes division as we go
about doing even
good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is
written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..
For example, one of the charges against Honest to God, almost as soon as it appeared, was that John Robinson had said nothing in that book
about «future life» — although the critic must have forgotten that not many years before the bishop had
written, while still a theological teacher, a treatise entitled In the End God which is a considered and very interesting and suggestive discussion of exactly that subject as
well as of the related aspects of «the last
things».
Those who
write from a Christian perspective while respecting the
good things about modern liberalism must be careful to avoid various pitfalls along the way.
It saddens me that in this
well - researched and
well -
written article
about PEOPLE, the only
thing you and many others can harp on is Islam.
W.B. Yeats
wrote in a famous poem
about how «the center» no longer «holds,»
about how «the
good» lack «passionate intensity» while evil men and women have just such zeal, and how in the result
things are «breaking up» wherever one looks.
There were three
things about that piece of paper that made me cry: 1) her distinctive slanted hand
writing which I will never forget 2) the date was exactly 1 year before she died and I'm guessing she felt
good that summer and cooked a lot and 3) the notes she
wrote to herself
about what worked and what didn't.
You used to
write with such wit and elan
about your laughably bad dates, it was clearly only a matter of time before some
good guy got wise to the whole
thing.
Casey loves the Mets, Pittsburgh, and all
things food, which she
writes about on
Good.
One of the
best things about blogging is the people you meet who become lifelong friends; and when those friends are talented bakers, they
write beautiful cookbooks and send a copy to you.
He seems like a
good guy and he clearly puts thought into the
things he
writes, he's just not right
about it that often.
Here's how
well the White Sox have played so far this season: I
wrote this whole
thing, top to bottom, and realized there wasn't a single joke
about the Drake LaRoche situation.
After one of the students
wrote to, and got a response from the Gunners, his class devised a plan to
write to all of the clubs in the top flight, asking a series of questions, including «what is the
best thing about your manager?»
I expect you will
write about how
good things are at the club and that making it to the FA cup final was a great success and that we were unlucky with injuries and that we have many
good things to look forward to and should just get behind our awesome manager and that we almost had as many points as last season but were just unlucky with our competitors have
better seasons.
Personally i dislike Olivier Giroud on account of the fact that the Deep Lying foward is a dead concept in the BPL, Often i see people
write about how fantastic his hold up play is and his finishing is... i get it there is no denying it he is
good at those
things.