Sentences with phrase «authors saying things»

By way of answer the author says things like, «A cause is not an excuse except insofar as the cause deprives the person of reason or forces a person to act.»

Often we see authors say things like: «I don't think that blogger is worth my time,» or «They don't have enough followers.»

I agree on the permission thing — I really couldn't believe how many trad pub authors said things like «my agent won't let me do that,» or «my publisher wants me to write something different.»

Not exact matches

The author of «Getting Things Done» says people focus on the wrong parts of his productivity system

«Other people have to be able to speak for your brand,» says Jonah Berger, author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and the James G. Campbell Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

But all contain triggers that get people talking, says Jonah Berger, marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

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.

And if you want to take things a step further you can add a related idea from author Laura Vanderkam that works for similar reasons — stop saying you don't have time for things.

«When it comes to establishing positive relationships with your coworkers, the most important thing is to get to know them first as individuals,» says Dorie Clark, author of Reinventing You.

«When people are surprised on Twitter, they are going to tweet about it and that's how things can spread very quickly,» says O'Neil's boss, Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likable Local, and author of Likeable Business (McGraw - Hill, 2012).

According to Goodman, your book should have three things upon launch: social proof, i.e., a number of Amazon reviews; an «intangible,» e.g., a quote from a renowned expert in the field, say a New York Times bestselling author; and lastly a good book (which may seem obvious, but...).

Instead of networking, the author said you should do these five things:

Business owners can partner with manufacturing plants that use IoT to connect to operations, logistics, and suppliers, says Maciej Kranz, an IoT pioneer and author of Building the Internet of Things.

«Like many things pertaining to eBay transactions, it's up to the seller's discretion,» says Greg Holden, author of How to Do Everything With Your eBay Business.

There can be no talent strategy without a compelling business strategy,» says Bill Taylor, an HBR writer, cofounder of Fast Company and the author, most recently, of Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways.

«The only thing that there's agreement on is that it's a lot more challenging than the old math,» says Dan Yergin, the vice chairman of information and analytics company IHS and the author of the essential oil - history tomes The Prize and The Quest.

«The thing companies need most is often what they get least: the truth,» says Mindy Mackenzie, author of The Courage Solution: The Power of Truth Telling with Your Boss, Peers, and Team.

First things first: Before you bring up the topic with anyone else, it's important to get in the habit of using positive language around money, says Leanne Jacobs, holistic wealth expert and author of «Beautiful Money.»

Steven Pressfield, author of the War of Art, says, «Resistance is the equal - and - opposite reaction of Nature to the New Thing that you and I are called to bring forth out of nothing.

He is the author of thirteen books, which is pretty amazing when you consider he's only really saying three things; buy index funds, keep costs low, and stay the course.

Tough Things First Author Ray Zinn says, «Your life is your business, but don't make your business your life.»

The author has a baseless story, and it really doesn't matter, because by her saying such thing is a persecution by it self.

The Author correctly says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years» but she forgot the most important thing - the bible is mostly a work of fiction.

You find God, just as the author says, in your family and in the things in that give you purpose and meaning.

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.»

I think all the author was saying was that it isn't «the great apostasy» or even mere self - indulgence (we want an in - church barista type thing) that is turning some people of faith — both young and old — away from corporate «traditional» gathering.

Other New Testament authors say similar things.

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.

I recently lost my dad and I went through all those things that the author said.

I strong suspect entirely different results could have been found, and the author would have said exactly the same thing — how it was confirmed the Bible, and God's existence, and so on.

But finally to say that the true author of scripture (God) didn't understand things as well as we do today, is a pretty arrogant stand.

If indeed God is truly violent, how could Jesus or other NT authors say any of these things and be considered honest?

2) such a reading fails to account for the multi-faceted ways in which that constant is presented (various authors, genres, times & contexts, all saying the same thing).

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.

In America many Christians who insist on a literal interpretation of anything in the Bible are often ready to say «but, in this case, Jesus didn't really mean...» when both Jesus and the author of this Gospel labor to convey «You aren't supposed to try to take the live of other things on Earth... that's the whole point, I want you to take on life that only I can offer!»

It is not an exaggeration to say there is no way the writer would say something like, «Such - and - such college has the dubious distinction of being the MOST religious campus etc. etc.» The author is fueling the notion that somehow being less religious is somehow a bad thing when each day and throughout history it has been shown time and again being more religious is more of a liability.

One thing, however, we can say with reasonable certainty is that the large body of sayings which he gives in common with Luke must have conic down to both, whether in writing or by word of mouth, from a period much earlier than the date at which the two authors wrote.2 It brings us that much nearer to the fountainhead.

One of my favorite authors, C. S. Lewis, says that the most important thing about Jesus is that He is God.

The author doesn't know the first thing about hermeneutics or exegesis, which is basically a fancy way of saying she doesn't know how to read and interpret things in context.

I will say the same thing I told the other guy if you can't figure out who the authors of the bible are not even I can help you.

«The history of American evangelicalism is critical in understanding how many things Clinton stands for that contradict the deeply held values of politically engaged evangelicals since the 1960s,» said Kristin Du Mez, a historian at Calvin College and the author of a forthcoming book about Hillary Clinton's faith.

Plenty of authors write things as intellectual exercise, so you can't always assume they believe what the book says.

The whole thing rests upon one author — Michael Prescott's — highly selective excerpting and chopping up of a private [i.e., thinking out loud without clarifications] journal written when Rand was barely out of her teens, fresh from the blood bath of 1920s Soviet Russia — and still made it very clear that her read on the personalities of the observers showed that they were not appalled by Hickman's crime — she said there had been far worse, without the same spectacle of glee — but by his flamboyant and mocking defiance of society.

This author keeps saying scientists thing the age of the universe is 14.5 billion years old.

«That's... one of the major things I decry in my book,» said Tom Krattenmaker, author of «Onward Christian Athletes,» who's based in Portland, Oregon.

I've read books about the Bible that were sort of attempts to explain it, but they can't say certain things because you realize the author might lose his or her job, so it ends up avoiding all the real questions everybody has.

The author quotes apologist Lee Strobel as saying, «It wasn't too many years ago that scholars were writing off apologetics because we live in a postmodern world where young people are not supposed to be interested in things like the historical Jesus... The biggest shock is that among people who communicated to me that they had found faith in Christ through apologetics, the single biggest group was 16 - to -24-year-olds.»

We have all heard the rhetoric from a whole host of financial advisors, best - selling authors and TV show hosts all saying the same things: Get out of debt, build a savings account, invest for the long run.

His elder sister also lamented and accused me as the author of such a misfortune, saying how it was that I, teacher of good things, could have caused her brother to act in such a manner.

We have all heard the rhetoric from a whole host of financial advisors, best - selling authors and TV show hosts all saying the same things: Get out of debt, build a...