Sentences with phrase «authors they read as»

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«People read each other's intent as soon as they see each other,» says Nick Morgan, speech coach and author of new book «Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact.»

In one, scholars were asked to read and rate research papers; unbeknown to them, the names had been changed to change the gender of the authors, and the scholars rated the papers «written» by men as better than the ones that appeared to be authored by women.

I view reading a book as a conversation with the author.

The best - selling author of «Outliers» and «David and Goliath» spends his Sundays drinking tea, reading the newspaper, going for a stroll, going out to brunch, or watching HBO and sports and, as he told HuffPost Black Voices, «I give thanks for all that I've been given.»

As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Dumb,» and the author went on to cite research to make her point that when women do ask for more money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily in terms of career progression and opportunities.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

I would read great books and read profound articles and just think to myself — «How I wish I was as creative as the author who wrote that great book.»

This inside look at the house the Forbes family built — the famous headquarters at 60 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, in fact — certainly reads as though its author spent the years since sharpening his knife.

This inside look at the house the Forbes family built reads as though its author spent years sharpening his knife.

(By the way, as you read the conclusions keep in mind the authors are not talking just about high - tech entrepreneurs.

As you read these pieces you get the sense that the authors are shaming you for not being invested exclusively in only the best performing assets.

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Here's what Jean Yarbrough of Bowdoin, the distinguished author of pathbreaking books on President TJ and President TR, wrote: I read this post with great interest, as....

You say God is an immoral killer and the author as well as everyone who read or was read the scroll would ask you what world are you living in!

I read and believe Genesis in a true literal way, as the author intended it.

Lastly, the authors of the greek myths and the accounts of seeing craetures we know don't exist were as real to them as god is to you and to everyone else who read the stories.

The story of Rasputin may almost be read as another Russian novel, written not by any single author but by the culture as a whole.

@chuckles «Lastly, the authors of the greek myths and the accounts of seeing craetures we know don't exist were as real to them as god is to you and to everyone else who read the stories.

Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself about the author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature of things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?

But for me the finest and most moving essay was the last one, devoted to one Matthew Shanahan, a man otherwise unknown to the world, who was going blind and whom the author met while he was reading aloud books at a Jewish home for the blind: «Matthew Shanahan was as Irish as Joseph Epstein is Jewish....

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

He is the author of determinedly «Southern» works such as Why Flannery O» Connor Stayed at Home and Possum and other Receits for the Recovery of «Southern» Being, all of which are recommended reading.

Unfortunately if you read their own authors works, you see they are angry because their tactics haven't work as well in the «Muslim world» as it had in other countries & religious groups.

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.

Authors often use an avatar in their fiction stories — it is not Jack that climbs the beanstalk, it is the author... and many times, it is the reader that years later «lives» the story as they read it.

Please I would URGE all who are concerned with «Fairness» to read through that blog and point out ANYTHING that they find which the author can provide as evidence.

As I read the passages of scripture in the lectionary for today, I found myself identifying most with the author of this psalm.

I'm much happier to read primary sources as evidence (even though the choice of excerpts lies with the author), as I find this more convincing and usually more entertaining.

That's one of the things I was pointing out to someone who read a book on necromancy (long island medium) and was totally sold on everything the author wrote and was now at «peace» from reading about the endless cycles of death — i.e. soul coming back as such... dying then coming back again as another.

Authors Ed Dobson and Ed Hindson, professors at Liberty Baptist College in Virginia, base their reasonably balanced effort to define and locate fundamentalism on a wide reading of secondary sources and present a convenient summary as well as a campaign document.

Anyway, if you download one of these books and enjoy reading it, most of these authors also have other books you can read as well.

As happens with many good books, I stumbled upon More Than Serving Tea by accident, after I read an interview with one of its authors, Nikki Toyama - Szeto, at Intervarsity's «The Well» blog.

Hays also seems narrow when he encourages readers to read the OT principally as narrative and not as a «source of oracles, prooftexts, or halakhic regulations,» apparently disqualifying many early Christian authors who cited Scripture in this way.

In order to best experience this «Star Wars» in its original, Shakespeare - penned form, I have decided to forgo seeing any of the cinematic adaptions until I read the play aloud, as intended by its author.

I entreat all of you to read A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes novel — fiction, of course, but interesting that a very reputable and fact - driven author would choose to delve into the life of the antagonist as being helplessly tied up in an early Mormonist agenda...

How is the author to avoid moralizing, biased judgments or, perhaps worse, a simple reading of history as moral progress or moral decline?

To read the bible «literally» is to read the bible as the authors of a given book or letter intended it when it was written.

1:41 it takes «compassion», as incorrect reading of KJV for «indignation».54 Here, due to use of the secondary sources, the translator is hesitant to reflect the real intent of the author.

In an interview with The Politico, University of Virginia theologian Charles Marsh, author of Wayward Christian Soldiers and the son of a Southern Baptist minister, stated: [68] «As someone who grew up in Mississippi and Alabama during the civil rights movement,... my reading is that the conservative Christian movement never was able to distinguish itself from the segregationist movement, and that is one of the reasons I find so much of the rhetoric familiar — and unsettling.

When you read in the Bible about proclaiming Jesus as Lord, following Jesus, taking up your cross, eternal reward, inheriting the Kingdom, life in the Spirit, faithful living, and on and on and on, the author who wrote that text was primarily thinking of how we should live as followers of Jesus so that we can experience the life God meant for us to live.

Reading the bible literally does not mean taking every single word and applying it to every single situation; rather, it means to read each book as the author originally intended.

It was only obvious to me because I have read most of the books by Author B and was shocked to see so many of his ideas and insights being written about as if they belonged to Author A.

I challenge all readers to read the chapters preceding Isaiah 53 (chapters 41 thru 52) and you will see for yourself that the author of Isaiah is referring to the nation of Israel as the «suffering servant», not to the future messiah, and therefore, not to Jesus.

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.

In the current state of debate about these matters, I perhaps ought to expect myself to feel «excluded» as a man from reading Jane Austen's Emma until all female references to the protagonist are edited out, the title changed to M., and the author's name reduced to the discreet neutrality of J. Austen.

Ironically, as I was reading this book about how to live as Christians in a post-Christian era, I ran across an exchange between atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of the best - selling book God is Not Great) and Suchin Pak (correspondent for MTV news).

From the Summa Theologjae we read «The author of Sacred Scripture is God, in whose power it is to signify his meaning, not by words only (as man also can do), but also by things in themselves» 1,1,10.

Doty and other epistolary theorists agree that the letters were written by an author who was conscious of his responsibility as an apostle in the congregation and thus fully intended such letters to be read aloud to the gathered community.

Not the other as a psychic life that is to be re-experienced and reconstituted, but the other as a vision or a truth conveyed by the speech performance of an author in terms of a potentiality structured in the text that can only be actualized through the process of reading.

My first thought after reading your review is that his view of the Bible as dialog would seem to deny the Holy Spirit as being the author of Scripture, and would attack the idea that the Word — a.k.a. Jesus — became flesh and pitched his tent among us.