Sentences with phrase «authors about their failures»

In my unique position, I get lots of opportunities to talk to other book authors about their failures and successes.

Not exact matches

«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.

J.K. Rowling, author of the best - selling children's book series «Harry Potter,» knows a lot about achieving success — and failure.

Whether in fact this was the effect of the author's proposal about Paul is a historical question; but at issue in this question is the success or failure of the proposal in early Christianity, as well as its truth or falsity, but not its interest for us.

In Hebrews 10:1 - 4, the author emphasizes the complete failure of the Mosaic law to do anything about sin.

She writes about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Atlantic, Vermont Public Radio, and the New York Times and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed.

A weakening of the heart muscle that prevents the organ's efficient operation, heart failure affects around 5.7 million adults in the U.S., and about 40 percent of those hospitalized for heart failure exacerbation are obese, the authors note.

Few issues are more important in federal litigation than determining whether a case will be dismissed for failure to state a claim or instead slog on into Ian Kerner, a sexuality counselor and New York Times best - selling author, blogs about sex on Thursdays on The Chart.

When Author and Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki said, «A good idea is about 10 % and implementation, hard work, and luck is 90 %», he wasn't exaggerating; and with eLearning implementation, it's definitely what defines the success (or failure) of your venture.

The authors describe the four stages of implementing the program: modifying teachers» beliefs about what causes success or failure; guiding teachers to provide effective feedback; structuring written dialogues between students and teachers; and fostering classroom discussions of social and academic successes or failures.

The Hamilton Project released a series of economic facts about K - 12 education in addition to three new discussion papers by outside authors — «Staying in School: A Proposal to Raise High School Graduation Rates,» «Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools,» and «Harnessing Technology to Improve K - 12 Education.»

Most authors think talking about past «failures» will make literary agents trust you less.

But you keep saying that we need to see how it goes, and what I'm saying is that the approach has inbuilt failure, and I don't believe Edelman knows enough about how self - pub authors work, or how readers of their product think, to make this a success.

[In the first post about my Weird Indie Publishing Project, I explained why it was weird and stated that I would share my journey here so other beginning indie authors could benefit from my success or failure and what I learned by doing it.

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Elizabeth Stevens» gets published authors to tell about their big failures and fakes me out in the interview!

I love my job and hope to see my author's succeed, so I'm not complaining about them, just a challenging situation — and a situation perhaps that is critical to the success and failure of indie published books that nobody else is talking about.

How can you (the author) make me (the reader) care about Protagonist's impending success or failure?

The main flaw though was probably the author's failure to make any of the characters (as kids or adults) particularly charismatic or compelling and so for a reader it was really difficult to care about their story.

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If two NYT best selling authors can feel threatened by two other writers, (in my opinion as a result of fragile egos) when can we feel good about our successes and even okay about our failures?

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Best - selling novelist Chuck Palahniuk writes about the successes and failures of the often exhausting, but always necessary author book tour.

We're not talking success versus failure, or how the author feels about his or her own book.

Self - published authors, those who think seriously about their writing, are highly motivated to find answers to their failures or successes, are willing to analyze and receive feedback.

(In fact, the entire section covering free - roaming cats is of such poor quality — claims directly contradicting CDC data and reports, for example, and its failure to acknowledge the potential for TNR to provide a rabies barrier between wildlife and humans [2]-- one wonders about the motivation of its authors.

This article isn't about PS Now being a failure, its about the authors opinion that Microsoft's backwards capability is better.

These passages make me think of other great memoirs cataloguing spousal indiscretion — in particular Norris Church Mailer's A Ticket to the Circus, about Norman Mailer's «grand experiment in monogamy» with the author, his sixth and last wife, which of course was a failure («I'm not going to talk about the numerous girlfriends, but you know who you are, and there are many more of you than you think,» she writes).

What's being complained about is A) failure to archive the results of the fieldwork once it's completed and the results published and B) the analysis of the field work by the authors or others which use incorrect statistical analysis.

We republish this article with permission of the author because it contains a number of excellent points about the ethical dimensions of climate change particularly in regard to who should be understood to be responsible for the failure of the United States to take adequate action on climate change.

... In a recently published book titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, the technically qualified authors (scientists all) point to four reasons: a conflict among scientists in different disciplines; fundamental scientific uncertainties concerning how the global climate responds to the human presence; failure of the UN's IPCC to provide objective guidance to the complex science; and bias among researchers.»

It is also possible that some of them might agree with the letter's unnamed author (s) that it's acceptable to dishonestly misrepresent the objective facts about climate science, but until that's been proven on an individual basis, I refuse to ascribe that level of ethical failure to anyone.

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