Sentences with phrase «at book learning»

He was good at book learning but poor in practice.

Instead of being universally good at book learning, Bryant observed that most if not all were fiercely curious about the world around them.

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There's a lot of moving parts in the book, but at its core, it's about finding your voice and learning to make yourself heard, even if it's uncomfortable.

At least one person, and probably many more, want to learn what your book can teach them.

To learn more about how Kepler's Books survived its near - death experience, read Bo Burlingham's three - part series at www.inc.com/keyword/may09.

After her mom's book published, Modi went to work creating and selling passwords using the technique at various book - promotion events, during which she seems to have learned one very valuable business lesson:

In his book, At Ease: Stories I Tell My Friends, he advises, «Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.»

When I did my MBA at Rotman in 2000, I sat over an accounting textbook learning generally accepted accounting principles, closed the book, wrote the exam, and now I can barely file a tax return.

I've learned tons of travel hacks, and use them while booking flights, flying and once I land at my destination.

To learn more about open - book management and how you might use it in your business, check out Inc.com's guide to open - book management at www.inc.com/keyword/openbook.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Still, most literature has focused on each country in isolation — there have been reports on UK equity crowdfunding, articles on Canadian equity crowdfunding, and books on US equity crowdfunding — but very little on equity crowdfunding in totality, and nothing at all on what campaigns from different parts of the world can learn from each other.

I am also the author of the books: Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned at School & The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing.

Tom is also a two - time author, including How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services (2018) and Bread and Butter, a critically - acclaimed book that describes his work at Great Harvest and how he and his team created a nationally recognized corporate learning community and culture of best practices using collaborative networks.

Sheryl Sandberg and co-author, Adam Grant, have a new book called Option B, which partially explores failing and learning at work.

You can learn more at the Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World page at GoingBeyondSustainability.com (I think it's by far the best of my 10 books, several of which have won awards or been translated and republished in other countries).

Based on everything I've seen, learned and experienced myself — as a salesman at all levels, from knocking on doors to sell books to overseeing our booming sales operation at Pipedrive — I know this: When you master activity - based sales, you'll put yourself on the best possible track to success.

I learnt this eventually, in the course of general reading, from a book, «Influence», aimed at a popular audience, by a distinguished psychology professor, Robert Cialdini... I immediately sent copies of Cialdini's book to all my children.

You can learn more about Beth at http://yournerdybestfriend.com and get her book «The Big Book of Apps» on Amazon and other retailers tobook «The Big Book of Apps» on Amazon and other retailers toBook of Apps» on Amazon and other retailers today!

When starting a small business, there are all sorts of things to learn, and most first - time business owners have probably gone through at least three or four different books on -LSB-...]

After school shootings like the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, administrators reached out to former Columbine High principal Frank DeAngelis for advice, since there is no book to teach what he learned after gunmen killed 12 of his students and...

Years back, I was amazed at the claim made by Joel Greenblatt's book The Little Book That Still Beats the Market [Emphasis Mine] Can you spare three hours to learn how to beat the marbook The Little Book That Still Beats the Market [Emphasis Mine] Can you spare three hours to learn how to beat the marBook That Still Beats the Market [Emphasis Mine] Can you spare three hours to learn how to beat the market?

Follow Jeff at @jeffersonbethke, learn more about his resources at http://jeffandalyssa.com and check out his new book «Love That Lasts: How We Discovered God's Better Way for Love, Dating, Marriage, and Sex» wherever books are sold.

We help you cut through the clutter and learn what you really need — from books, meetings, and guest speakers like Aaron Levie (CEO of Box) and Keith Rabois (Partner at Khosla Ventures).

When will you believers learn that quoting scriptures at atheists has absolutely no effect — we have discounted your «books of silliness» and relegated them to the trash bin.

Still, at the end of the day, when the atrocities in Bosnia and elsewhere make one despair of human perfectibility, of moderation, of a universal moral law based on reason, reading so fine, learned, and humane a book is, if not a consolation, at least a relief.

He had entered university at the age of twelve but quickly discovered that he would learn more from private reading, later telling a friend that «there is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.»

But in theory at least, any field, any book, any course of study, presented in the right way, can provide an entry point for the awakening of a desire for liberal learning.

I learned a lot at meetings, read a lot of books, etc. and learned that most of my family, all through my families, and extended family's history had had problems with all kinds of addictive / compulsive behaviors, as I also always have had.

So that afternoon I sat by the fireside in the senior guest room at St. John's and read the book from start to finish — not because I wanted to learn from Newman, but because I wanted to hate him.

You can learn more about the book at EveryoneLovesSex.org.

Virtues and values Carter learned at home are mentioned throughout the book, but are never offered as solutions in the situations he describes.

Unlike many such self - help volumes, this book is free of the narcissistic taint of the «me generation»; and unlike many other violence - prevention projects, the book makes it a requirement that, at an early stage of the program, each participant learns to meditate — to sit in silence for a disciplined period each day, enduring his own inner «noise» and his inner obsessions, fantasies and feelings.

Around 1915 a local artist, Thomas O'Shaughnessy, who had studied Celtic decorative arts in Dublin and learned the art of stained glass at the Art Institute of Chicago, transformed the windows and stenciled the walls with images from the Book of Kells.

In publishing this book we recognize the importance of learning from Pentecostals, but at the same time we take into the account the contributions the historic churches can make to Pentecostal churches.

And yes I did go through once for me to take out my endowments after that it has been a learning experience because, like reading a book over and over or seeing a movie more than once, you learn different things depending on what's happening in your life at the time.

It matters because Christian leaders get book contracts, jobs and more because they have learned how to trick people into believing they have, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of Facebook fans that actually have zero interest in them at all.»

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

Fahrenheit 451 remains in the public consciousness for its searing critique of censorship (451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns — in Bradbury's dystopian view of the future, that temperature is used to burn books) and control over learning and intellectual pursuit.

Most scholars will be startled to learn that the «scrolls contain definite references to the New Testament and, more importantly, to Jesus of Nazareth»; that fragments of New Testament books were found in the Dead Sea caves; that one scroll mentions the crucifixion of Jesus; and that some Jews at Qumran accepted Jesus as the Messiah.

He was schooled in Germany and then the United States, and after a vocational struggle, he decided: «It is now no longer my fond hope to be a learned theologian and write big books,» he wrote at the time.

The letter tells what she has learned by typing Stern's book at a salary of $ 150 a week.

It's when the Kentucky character in Re-Membering is at his spiritually lowest, wandering around the streets of San Fransisco at dawn, that he muses about how it would be great to live there (away from his wife and roots) and learn Japanese and all about Zen Buddhism, something Gary Snyder really did, after he had already written a book all about Northwest Native American mythology.

Learn more about the book at: http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=9781620241431 There are 12 chapters in this book: 1.

At last we could actually learn and no one would have unfounded faith in fairytales and a really old (2000 years + now) unwise book.

As I read these books, when I read something fascinating, I look at the footnotes to see where they learned their information, and if possible, I obtain those books.

You can learn more about the book at TheJesusManifesto.com.

Similarly, in a presentation delivered at the Haskell Oriental Museum, Goodspeed expressed the hope that «there will go forth from these halls [of the University of Chicago] enlightenment, inspiration, and guidance in that learning which has come from the East and West, culminating in the Book of Books and in the teachings of the Son of Man, [which] will ever abide as our most precious possession.

A detailed look at Tractarian use of the term ethos has been long overdue, and in this very learned book Fr Pereiro contributes a great deal to its elucidation.

At first I wasn't sure why, but soon I learned that these books taught things about the world that disagreed with the Bible.