Sentences with phrase «about author life»

The IWSG meets up on the first Wednesday of every month to exchange judgment - free anecdotes about author life.

If you give them a taste of the story and your style, they will be more apt to buy your book, rather than if you just drone on and on about your author life and why you wrote it the darn thing in the first place.

Not exact matches

Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy, author of «Presence,» talks about the best way to fake it till you make it in life.

«We spend about a quarter of our lives at work,» says «Originals» author Adam Grant.»

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

The life - hacker, entrepreneur and author of «The 4 - Hour Chef» talks about his biggest fear, how to tackle them and how to cross items off a bucket list.

On her own, she is the author of the 2008 - 2009 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller «10-10-10: A Life - Transforming Idea,» a decision - making concept she originally wrote about as a columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine.

Robbins, an author, entrepreneur, life coach, and business strategist, spoke with Diamandis about some of the technological advancements that may ease people's fears about the future.

Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy and author of «Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America,» explains how Americans have historically been naive about the Russians.

So does James Marshall Reilly, the author of new book, Shake the World: It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these About Creating a Life about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these days.

Author and life coach Tony Robbins urges Americans to get educated about the fees they pay for portfolio management and retirement saving.

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

Host Brian Clark chats with self - starters ranging from Gary Vaynerchuk to Pivot author Jenny Blake about everything from playing the long game to «designing your life,» as well as shares his own stories as an eight - time entrepreneur.

The New York Times bestselling author and radio show host of The Cardone Zone also talks about how he looks and feels younger than he did 20 years ago — because he stopped trying to please everyone and started living his life for himself.

I became obsessed with radical science, the future of technology, the future of biotech... I was reading very interesting scientists and authors that were speaking about ideas of singularity, and life extension, and science fiction.

Author and newly - named member of the Worth Power 100 List, Tony Robbins recently visited Business Insider for a Facebook Live chat about personal finance, politics, and strategy.

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

Michael Puett and Christine Gross - Loh are the authors of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life (Simon & Schuster, 2016)

According to Christopher Ruhm, the author of the first European study, paid leave of about 40 weeks saved the most lives.

John Mauldin: The author of Thoughts from The Frontline who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to keeping people informed about risk, John has written at length about the fragmentation of society and the changing nature of employment.

In this session, Author Kim Zetter will talk about Stuxnet and the security issues around the digital systems that control our critical infrastructure — trains, planes, water treatment plants and the power grid — as well as the products of our daily lives, including cars and medical equipment.

This week, #HipNJ is featuring Matt Sweetwood — author, entrepreneur, single - father and life coach — whose most recent project, a self - help book entitled Leader of the Pack, was recently celebrated at Till & Sprocket NYC with a stimulating discussion about marriage, divorce, parenthood, and leadership.

3) The discussion about scaling vs. keeping it small is a very interesting one: I liked that the author presented real - life cases for either scenarios for food for thought instead of advocating one or the other (e.g. presenting a single «formula» as the golden rule that all shall follow)-- I can see how this particular decision can be case sensitive and there really is no «right» answer as long as it works for the entrepreneur!

The authors put the case this way: «Think about the deepest joy you experience in life — it doesn't typically come from thinking about how great you are.

So little is written about end of life moments, the bulk of what I come across seems to be fervently focused on what's important in the here and now to the author without seeing the forest for the trees.

Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself about the author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature of things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

The authors write, «Christians have too often been silent about biblical teaching on sex, marriage, and family life.»

We recently spoke with author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy; Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery) about his new book Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical world.

Lew Ayotte is the author of the blog The Life of Lew Ayotte, a collection of stories about philosophy, religion, technology, and everyday lLife of Lew Ayotte, a collection of stories about philosophy, religion, technology, and everyday lifelife.

The EV authors were putting on paper what I had been thinking about for at least the previous 10 years, and I wanted to connect with them personally because I was (pretty desperately) looking for a group of Protestant Christians with whom I could seek God, hoping to find anything like what they were advocating and describing near where I live in the Coastal Range of northern California — the pickin's were and are really slim.

I am pretty thankful the photographer used Photoshop for my author picture because I look about 20 pounds lighter in that picture than I am in real life.

CNN: My take: «Atheist» isn't a dirty word, congresswoman Chris Stedman, author of «Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious,» writes that when Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's campaign said «the terms non-theist, atheist or non-believer are not befitting of her life's work or personal character» it implied that there is something unfavorable about nonbelievers.

She is the author of Down We Go: Living Into the Wild Ways of Jesus, which will totally transform the way you think about «church,» I guarantee it.

I re-read a book recently, and the author wrote about how she was supposed to speak at an event, and when she asked which topic they would like to here her expound upon, they said, well, just tell us what is saving your life right now.

The author is concerned about the unborn child, yet voted for Obama who would not even defend the right to life of a baby who survives an abortion!!

I think that drawing conclusions about an author's life from his works usually reveals more about the critic than the author.

But however one takes Moby - Dick, the book sufficiently demonstrates that its author was capable of huge, cosmic ideas about life and death, freedom and necessity, wisdom and insanity.

CNN: My Take: The Christmas message of the real St. Nicholas Adam C. English, associate professor of religion at Campbell University and author of «The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus: The True Life and Trials of St. Nicholas of Myra,» discusses his quest to learn the truth about St. Nicholas and how it led him to Italy's Adriatic coast.

This alone merits attention — as there is much talk about the relative dearth of Catholic authors today — but Trower's life and work offer something more, as they speak to questions that are currently circulating within the Church.

When you read in the Bible about proclaiming Jesus as Lord, following Jesus, taking up your cross, eternal reward, inheriting the Kingdom, life in the Spirit, faithful living, and on and on and on, the author who wrote that text was primarily thinking of how we should live as followers of Jesus so that we can experience the life God meant for us to live.

Or, as the author of What the Bible Says About Healthy Living (1996) puts it, «Don't let any food or drink become your God.»

Ironically, as I was reading this book about how to live as Christians in a post-Christian era, I ran across an exchange between atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of the best - selling book God is Not Great) and Suchin Pak (correspondent for MTV news).

It seems that ever since Rick Warren published The Purpose Driven Life, every pastor out there is preaching sermons and every Christian author is writing books about discovering who God made you to be and how to live accordingly.

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

From a Christian point of view the author deserves praise for his repeated emphasis that economics is about living, breathing, people, not the disembodied rational ego of classical economics, and therefore that it must have a spiritual dimension.

Kate Bowler is an assistant professor in the school of divinity at Duke University, the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, and host of Everything Happens, a podcast featuring honest conversations about life's toughest challenges.

The author talks about practices that address fundamental human needs: honoring the body, hospitality, household economics, saying yes and saying no, keeping Sabbath, testimony, discernment, shaping communities, forgiveness, healing, dying well and singing our lives.

And as I reflect on whether or not it's worth all of this work, I realize there are a few things about the writing life that they didn't tell me at the Young Author's Conference:

Most often, when the authors of Scripture want to write about eternal life, they use the words «eternal life» (or «everlasting life» in some translations).