Sentences with phrase «authors do something»

Successful authors do something every day to promote their books.

Over the last two years since I jumped into the blogging game, I have seen at least half a dozen cases of well - known authors doing something equivalent to sticking their foot in it and pissing readers off either in small numbers or large.

But if the author did something right, or if I think they have potential, I mention that, too.

When an indie author does something splendid, it merits our applause.

Just because another author did something that worked well for them does not mean it will work well for you.

The author does something special at this point.

The authors did something that is still relatively novel when it comes to study of contract drafting — they engaged in empirical research.

Not exact matches

Grandinetti was cordial in his comments, but he does put much onus on publishers to change and evolve into something that's more useful for both authors and readers:

If so, you may be doing something wrong, according to Victor Green, author of How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying, and a serial entrepreneur who's launched several successful companies and spent the past 15 years consulting with other entrepreneurs.

I can't recall the author, but the basic paraphrase is this: You should do something so amazing that you forget to check your phone.

«It's exciting that exercise may help improve memory at this stage, as it's something most people can do and of course it has overall health benefits,» Ronald C. Petersen a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the lead author on the most recent guidelines, said in a statement.

«If you are always the last to know something, then that's a pretty big red flag that people don't feel as though they can trust you with information,» says Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and author of «The Humor Advantage.»

Eric Abrahamson, a professor of management at Columbia Business School and author of The Perfect Mess, adds that order comes with a cost: «If you stop to tidy up every time something becomes disordered you'll continually interrupt yourself and never get any work done,» he says.

If you don't mind the author's loud, self - aggrandising style you will definitely get something out of it.

As an example, I not only agented this book myself to a major NYC - area publisher, I brought in Jay and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey for the foreword, and even wrote my own back cover (something most authors never get to do when working with a major publisher).

While the authors conceded that it was difficult to sort cause and effect, they decided to do something that Lisa Keister evidently did not.

First, what you have done is called quote mining — taking a quote, or a partial quote and posting it out of context so that it seems the author said or means something they did not say or mean.

«taking a quote, or a partial quote and posting it out of context so that it seems the author said or means something they did not say or mean.»

For those who do not profess a religion it is true, since love is something we all experience (as the author says, if we do not experience it directly, we are aware that it is missing in our lives and we should have had it).

Surprisingly, Maine makes little of these scenes: Noe (the author uses the spellings employed in a pre-King James translation) is portrayed in the opening sentence as glancing «toward the heavens, something he does a lot these days,» but aside from the implication that he may be looking for further divine clarification and not just the promised rains, we don't see him musing much.

Indeed, it can even be read as a mockery of the whole literary enterprise, pairing dull and uncomprehending readers who ploddingly manage to miss the obvious, with clever authors (both the fictional Vereker and the actual James) who feel compelled to play the trickster, taunting their readers with the hint that there is something — indeed, the whole point of it all — that they don't get.

I can see how one can look at this idea and look at the following examples in Hebrews 11 as «Because they were sure they would get this reward, they did this thing» but as the author points out in verse 39 that they didn't get what they imagined they would, so if we understand faith as «being sure» it would turn out that it is «being sure» of something and being totally wrong — instead it makes more sense to understand Hebrews 11:1 as saying that «faith is a realization (or actualization)» of our hopes, a realization that the author points out is greater than we could expect and be sure in.

But the fact that bestselling author and popular blogger Ann Voskamp didn't make the list should tell you something.

The entire work would have come off better if the author had skipped the assertions of research and simply done it as an confessional essay entitled something on the order of «Afraid of Ourselves.»

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

The author said that it lulls us into thinking we have accomplished something good, when in fact, we have done pretty much nothing.

Not something the author prescribes and something very few churches here are willing to do, let alone in the Middle East.

I am quite conservative myself, but think of the inspiration of God as something closer to the whisperings of God, which He does not only upon biblical authors, but upon many others as well.

I'm happy for the author but something doesn't ring true about her story.

On page 277 the authors write, «Jesus didn't consider the way of the cross something he simply accomplished for the sake of others» salvation, but he insisted, «You can not be my disciples unless you too pick up your cross and follow me.»

maybe he uses this world's reality, or something like this world's reality... The author can create a past, a history... and then create a Now Time, a present time, and a future time... So maybe God did create the world 10,000 years ago... and gave it a past, billions of years old... if you are God you can create the Reality of the world...

But this is an odd sort of praise since it comes at the cost of dismissing the very thing which gives this «literature» its heart, something even Wellhausen did not fail to recognize: its serious portrayal of a God who stands over and goes before its «author.»

The author of the statement, Ben Armstrong, does not appear to recognize the innate contradiction in his statement: the essential distinction between giving people something they want and something that will change them.

Dear PATIAT, (In response) Exactly!!!! I can't give the author any points for «making an effort» to offer a carnal spin on something spiritual and i never said «It's not like that» God's word does that for her BUT she must read it with a spiritual mind and let go of her carnal one.

You THINK you've refuted something the author said, but you've really done nothing more than say, strongly, that she's just wrong.

Well, I feel like the authors could of done something better to try and make it more clear what each grain was.

There is something so lovely and wholesome about gingerbread, so it doesn't surprise me that famous children's book author Beatrix Potter was a big fan.

the author of this article just didn't see newcastle against manure last week...... Their back Line is something else so far this season... Especially with that new addition (Mbemba) and coloccini was just troublesome...... need i comment on their attack?

The author has cherry picked data to support his conclusions which is not something smart, and educated people do.

Blass is class and so are you if you heed the author's plea to do something about the terrible drought that has befallen baseball verse

And ideally would get less than $ 15M per — but I am predicting a future that is authored by the idiots in the front office — so I expect his deal with look something like $ 19M — $ 18M — $ 17M — my hope is that they don't throw in the fourth season at $ 20M and / or they don't match some nonsense max contract from Brooklyn (or whoever)... as I note, I see Lavine is a net negative player who could put up impressive numbers on a bad team — good for the tank.

There is no site like this in my country and I was very grateful to the author of this one because I learnt a lot and finally found someone who feels like me... When I first read all these comments I cried as if I found a good friend who understands me... I do something which has always been very natural and still is to mammals in this world and please, if you disagree, do not criticize us and do not jump to conclusions because it hurts...

When I asked her recently how it's going, she laughed (something she does often and genuinely) and said that she and her friend, author Ann Patchett, whose surgeon husband is 16 years older, always say that if they can't make their marriages — a second for both — work with these men who so clearly adore them, then no one can make marriage work.

The reasons are as yet unknown but the authors of the study point out that «It is possible that babies fed to a routine become relatively more passive participants in the world: feeding (arguably the most important event in their lives) is something which is done to them, rather than something which their own desires and actions play a part in bringing about.

You would be amazed at what service projects and groups are out there doing things that you never knew about — dolls and bears made up to be the the weight of your baby (Molly Bears), stuffed animals made out of your baby's clothing and blankets, peer support and parent advocates waiting to help the newly bereaved, personalized jewelry makers (like My Forever Child), stone painters, heart sewers, pillow - making people (Heaven Born for miscarriage), memory - box makers, authors (there are books for almost every subject on this topic waiting to be discovered), research and education groups, story - sharing sites, support groups, chat groups, blogs, Facebook groups, foot / hand print kits, music and funeral planning resources... Consider starting here before starting something new.

It all looks like something that was either meant as preliminary data and not for distribution to anyone other than the authors or a work where the authors weren't paying attention to what they were doing.

«We're all looking for ways to explain something that's impossible to explain — because we don't understand it,» says marriage and family therapist Susan Stiffelman, author of Parenting With Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids (An Eckhart Tolle Edition) and Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm and Connected.

If you need to rely on your partner for something important, James Lehman, child behavior expert and author of multiple parenting programs, wrote specific, effective phrases in his article, Do You Make This Parenting Mistake?

If you are wanting to do what you can to avoid birth - related trauma [to have an Empowered Birth] or you've ever felt a pang of sadness or regret when you think about something that happened while you were birthing your baby, then please listen to this interview with the authors of a book called «How to Heal a Bad Birth.»