Sentences with phrase «author is the best person»

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The study's authors say that getting people to think favourably of your accomplishments might be better achieved «by modest self - representation, or even self - denigration, than by outright bragging about one's positive qualities.»

«There is very little you can do to make yourself better - looking, but you can present yourself better,» says the author of Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful.

-- Michael Tyrrell, author, composer, and producer of Wholetones, a healing frequency music project aiming to help people improve their health, sleep, creativity, productivity at work, and well - being

«When we have to think about our failures - that puts us in a negative mood and research has shown that when people are in a negative mood state, they tend to indulge to make themselves feel better,» lead author Hristina Nikolova explained.

It's good to give employees these options because «one thing you don't want to do is require people to report only to their supervisors, because unfortunately that may be the person who they have a complaint about,» says Lisa Guerin, an attorney specializing in employment law and the author of The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations: How to Handle Employee Complaints & Problems.

«As an effective leader, choose to make the review process a positive learning experience and let your main objective be the growth and development of your people,» says Darlene Price, president of Well Said, Inc., and author of «Well Said!

Take it from William Wooditch, author of «Always Forward: Discover the 7 Secrets of Sales Success,» which is centered around the idea that people can not sustain forward movement without the unconditional resolve to give and do their best every day, without retreat or surrender.

The authors say that the better people are at recognizing others» emotions the more able they are to influence others effectively and get along with others, which eventually results in greater career success and higher income.

According to Ralph Heath, managing partner of Synergy Leadership Group and author of Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes, and Thinking Big, failure and defeat are our best teachers, but many people, especially those in conservative corporate cultures, avoid going there.

Professor Harry Kraemer at the Kellogg School of Management, author of Becoming the Best: Build a World - Class Organization Through Values - Based Leadership, tells me that being a social entrepreneur has very little to do with how much money you have or the number of people who report to you.

Best - selling financial author of «The Automatic Millionaire,» David Bach teaches people to be smarter with their money.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.&raqAre Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.&raqare really in dire straits.»

Where other companies supply their stores with headquarters - authored mission and values statements, Life Is Good provides loose - leaf binders labeled «Fuel» and stuffed with thank - yous from people who have taken solace or inspiration from its message.

Excluding celebrities and best - selling authors, «people usually aren't interested in generalists,» she says.

«This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves,» lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.

«Tinder supposedly makes it easier to have sex on tap, but it's pretty well established that people with a steady partner tend to have sex more often,» says Jean Twenge, one of the study's researchers and the author of Generation Me.

In my years in leadership at the American Society of Journalists and Authors, I've encountered many people who like pushing buttons and are good at it, writers not always being the most mild - mannered of people.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

Best - selling author Malcolm Gladwell suggests we should stop paying attention to what successful people are, and pay more attention to where they came from.

The study authors suggest that the prime takeaway is that cutting yourself some slack about, well, slacking off is good for you (at least if you're tightly wound), or, as BPS puts it, «the people who could most benefit from the restorative effects of lounge - based downtime... are the least likely to do so.»

«Our model and results imply that activating people's best - self concepts is beneficial both for humanistic and economic reasons,» write the authors.

Shawn Anchor, author of The Happiness Advantage, has found that the brain works much better when a person is feeling positive.

In FIVE STARS: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great (St. Martin's Press; June 5, 2018) bestselling author of Talk Like TED, Carmine Gallo argues that mastering Aristotle's «ancient art of persuasion» — combining words and ideas to move people to action — is the key to standing out and getting ahead in the age of AI

Youtility for Accountants Co-written with best - selling author Darren Root, Youtility for Accountants: Why Smart Accountants are Helping not Selling takes the core premise of Youtility — making your marketing so useful, people would pay for it — and gives it an accountants - only twist.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

He's personally helped hundreds of thousands of people become multi-millionaires, business leaders, best - selling authors, leading sales professionals, successful entrepreneurs, and world - class athletes while creating balanced, fulfilling and healthy lives.

The authors note that a just social system is impossible without people being just, but they do not see the problem of where in this society the training of people to be good and just might happen.

The authors all have mentioned real places, and real people, considering thats about as much as the bible has, I think its safe to say that they're equally valid as well.

Much better to do exactly as the author has said, and let the person get off their chest whatever needs to be dealt with in those final moments.

But I believe as the author says that in the end... people know what is right and what is wrong and may also realize, unfortunately, that people do the best they can do with what they have, even though it may be flawed to the max.

Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of the best - selling book «When Bad Things Happen to Good People,» said Mourdock's remarks were off - base: «He's invoking the will of God where it is not appropriate.»

Because there are others who believe the same way I do, and we have the best Bible scholars, and the best seminaries, and the biggest churches, and the most authors, and our missionaries are very active overseas, and we agree with most of the teachings of the church throughout history... at least since the Reformation anyway... and I believe that with time, and a little education of how to really study the Bible, people will eventually see that what I believe is the right way to believe.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

Negative attitudes toward the idea of women as senior pastors are well documented in Edward C. Lehman, Jr.'s, sociological study Women Clergy: Breaking Through Gender Barriers (Transaction, 1985) The author analyzed detailed responses from 1,720 Presbyterian lay - people and 1,143 Presbyterian clergy concerning a wide range of attitudes toward women in ministry.

Author John Charles Cooper, dean of academic affairs at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, sums up the situation: «People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious books.

In Bulfinch's Legends of Charlemagne, published in 1867, the author blandly and uncontentiously numbers these works «among the most cherished creations of human genius,» some knowledge of which «is expected of every well - educated young person.»

So a Christian who was a fan of this book (and the author) commented that this was the stupidest review they had ever read... Another Christian weighed in and said that the commenter was stupid as well for just using cut - and - paste attacks upon people who write critical reviews.

The author is in fact appealing, over the heads of the agents of persecution, to intelligent and well - disposed persons in Graeco - Roman society, in the belief that accurate information about the origins, aims and principles of the Christian Church would do much to disarm the hostility under which it suffered.

Well, this argument states that while the Bible accurately records the thoughts, actions, and ideas of the various Biblical authors and the people to whom the various books were written, these thoughts, actions, and ideas may not actually be the thoughts, actions, and ideas that God endorses, nor the thoughts, ideas, and actions that we are to copy.

to not understand the cultural context of the text as you so well display along with trying to tie the statement of truth to the holocaust and blame the author (God ultimately) and not the person responsible for twisting scripture is absurd.

Speaking to popular culture blog Assignment X, the author said this as he again described the difference between his work and Tolkien's: «I think ultimately the battle between good and evil is weighed within the individual human heart, not necessarily between an army of people dressed in white and an army of people dressed in black.

In a way, the author is trying to answer the question, «Why do bad things happen to good people?»

Lest we think that it is the fault of the editors (who choose these article titles and really should know better) the author breathlessly informs us of the sinister fact: «What most people don't know is that Steubenville is home to North America's largest evangelical teen gathering.»

He was a well - known author, and people traveled from all over the world to meet him and learn from him at L'Abri in Switzerland.

From his language and sentence construction, it is obvious that the author is a well educated, thoughtful person.

Religion is sort of like this as well but I think that the author of the article described it well that religion is like learning a new language and a religious person is putting out the message of whose language is more right.

After meeting with Muslim scholars the author has a better understanding that in times of uncertainty it may be easier for people to trust a learned religious leader than a democratically elected elite put in place by dubiously motivated political constituencies.

Broadwell is the author of Petraeus» biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, and was embedded with him in Afghanistan where rumors of something romantic between the two were common but dismissed by people who knew them well.

The same God is the author of our natural intellect as well as revelation, as classical Catholic theology so often reminds us, so we should not be surprised if what the Church teaches makes wonderful sense also just from a purely natural point of view and people end up doing what the Church recommends, not because she recommends it, but just because it is the most sensible thing to do.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.