Sentences with phrase «book talking as»

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All this being said, there is still obviously such a thing as too much awkwardness, and most of us will continue, despite Dahl's pep talks for the self - conscious, to strive to behave stupidly in public as little as possible She very much understands that impulse and offers many tips she dug up speaking to researchers for the book, including:

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

There has been plenty of important research on each of these management qualities, such as Mark Murphy's book Hundred Percenters on motivating employees to greatness; or ex-Googler Kim Scott's «radical candour» approach to providing feedback; or the work of Brené Brown, whose landmark 2010 TED talk is called «The Power of Vulnerability.»

Glenn Fogel, Bookings Holdings CEO, and CNBC's Seema Mody talk about the company's better - than - expected fourth quarter sales as the online travel company receives a boost from a rise in reservations and strong performance from its international business.

In July, Amazon tried to make peace with Hachette authors by offering them 100 % of digital book sales for as long as talks with Hachette dragged out — a proposal that Hachette had already turned down in negotiations.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

Some Republicans complain that Comey has been talking about the memos in his book promotion tour even as the Justice Department withheld them from lawmakers.

Carmine Gallo is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of such books as «Talk Like TED» and «The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs.»

You also said to me when we were talking, as I was reporting the book, that you believe that the bigger you are, the better you will fare in the public market.

It has become reassuringly common to dismiss Trump's hyperbole as the hardball negotiating tactics dished out in his book The Art of the Deal — bluster that will eventually give way to some measure of compromise and an updated NAFTA — but the dire news trickling out from the talks is forcing a harsh rethink, and there's growing reason to fear the worst.

Because as much as Gossip the book is about the popularization of back - fence talk and the search for a reason why one of the world's most compelling pastimes is so pleasurable, it's also about admitting that people just can't keep secrets; they don't want to, and we might as well embrace the fact that they'll keep fewer and fewer in the future unless we collectively settle on some new etiquette.

«In most of the Western world, salary just isn't something people feel comfortable talking about,» writes researcher David Burkus in his 2016 book «Under New Management: How Leading Organizations are Upending Business as Usual.»

I wanted to talk about this book as soon as I finished it, so I'd recommend organizing a book club for this one.

Not long after founding Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stopped talking about the company as a social site and started telling people he was building a digital phone book for the new millennium, and he never wavered from that grandiose vision.

Perhaps something as simple as a team trip to a gallery, a talk by a local artist, or even a company - sponsored book club could help your team think more creatively.

In his book Unleashing the Ideavirus, Seth Godin talked about the viral influencer as a «sneezer» (i.e. someone who spread ideas simply by embracing them).

This book is a collection of essays and talks presented by Greenleaf as he attempts to apply servant - leadership to the fields of education, business, foundations, churches and government.

Here's one of the more challenging parts of this to grasp: when we're talking about digital currency such as Bitcoin, there's no repository of coins — that line item in the record book is the money.

As soon as this year's tax season is over, book an appointment with your CPA to talk about changes you can make in the current yeaAs soon as this year's tax season is over, book an appointment with your CPA to talk about changes you can make in the current yeaas this year's tax season is over, book an appointment with your CPA to talk about changes you can make in the current year.

In this episode of the Tony Robbins Podcast, you will hear from Renée Mauborgne — professor at INSEAD and co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, and author of the best - selling book, Blue Ocean Strategy, which has sold over 3.5 million copies across 5 continents and was recently updated and expanded in 2015 — as she discusses how any business can break away from the competition, build a strong brand, and get the world of social media to start talking.

Was this recent move in the crypto - arena just the result of many early investors just talking - up - their - book beginning with a pre-strike in the media to get - the - ball (or assumptions) rolling, as they say?

As we talked about in email, I have actually gone the income producing route of creating a book.

The Tonight Show band leader Tariq Trotter carries Carmine Gallo's book «Talk like TED» with him as a research tool for public speaking.

In his book, Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communication, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations.

But the part of the book I found most difficult to understand was the talk about tilts and using percentages such as a x % tilt.

My hope is that this book will serve as a blueprint for many more success stories, just like the unconventional and unexpected entrepreneurs I talked to from all over the world.

Hal is here talking about the second case, that of what is called «free banking», and is right to point to George Selgin as a leading scholar in this field (here's a podcast I recorded with George a few years ago)-- his books are a must - read if you are serious about money.

As the driving force behind the development and delivery of more than 123 million books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul ® franchise (and over 500 million copies in print worldwide), Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to talk about success.

Bieber rumors aside, the whole things is an interesting watch as Lentz talks about his new book Own the Moment, the damage done by pornography addiction, the Bible, Harvey Weinstein and more:

I find it hard to believe that there is any such things as miracles or a fourth dimension, but I don't mind if someone wants to talk to me about the bible or any other book for that matter.

i can referrence any «bible» when talking about any holy book and still use it properly but not change the topic of discussion... this is the times when i wish i was still in talking terms with my old professor, such mistakes would not have happened and a grand conversation may have ensued... whatever... as i said

However, as I also said in the review, His Eminence states that he was provoked into writing the book because theologians who talked about divine attributes tended to treat mercy as a marginal attribute of God, because traditionally it was thought that mercy did not pertain to God's essence.

Their creepy doctrinesa are another story as is their desire to be out from under the cloud of «cult» status that has existed since Joseph Smith started talking to angels and reading through special goggles to get his Book of Mormon.

But a spiritual epiphany, which she openly talks about in her 2013 book Following the Breadcrumbs (Authentic) led her to use music as a medium to communicate with young people suffering from low self - esteem and body image issues.

In your book you also talk about how, if you're in ministry, your kids need to have that sense of owning the dream as well.

I'm doing what I always wanted to do — making a living as a writer, traveling the country talking about my books, working on projects that I care about.

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

In a new edition of the New International Version of the Bible, «Game Plan for Life Bible, NIV: Notes by Joe Gibbs,» and a book of biblical devotions, «Game Plan for Life: Chalk Talks,» Gibbs writes frankly about many of his failures, about how just as his coaching career was soaring he was facing private calamities including a bad real estate deal that had him losing $ 35,000 a month and spiraling into bankruptcy.

We talked a bit about how I became a writer, discouragement, finding your voice, blogging, the difference between blogging and book writing, why I decided to write Jesus Feminist, my process as a writer, and the best (and worst) parts of writing among other things.

Presented in a conversational format, in which Shane and Tony essentially talk through what it means to be «red letter Christians,» touching on everything from violence, to community, to Islam, to sexuality, to liturgy, to saints, the book is highly practical and, as always, incredibly challenging.

In my book, Dying to Religion and Empire, I talk about how some Christians view baptism as a magical incantation in which the right words need to be said in order for the magic spell to actually work.

In my day job as the editor of The Englewood Review of Books, I've staked my life and work on the hope that reading carefully and well will undoubtedly transform us, reforming the ways that we think, talk about and live within this wondrous web of life that is God's creation.

In talking about these books with some friends, I was reminded that books that challenge us at one stage of life or faith may not seem so challenging as we continue to mature.

But as an English major at a small Christian liberal arts college, I can't think of a more fitting analogy to convey how I often feel when I talk to my friends about books.

As many authors can attest, however, after a few months of talking about your book topic, day after day after day, you get the writer's equivalent of the late - night giggles.

An ancient book by unknown authors, which makes wild extraordinary claims such as snakes talking, a man living in a giant fish for days, the dead rising, and so on.

At the same time he has his own very serious reservations and questions, some of which are frankly stated in these particular books, as they are elsewhere in Adventures of Ideas and in some of the «table - talk» recorded by Lucien Price in the dialogues.

He visited the church earlier this year, preaching to a warm and receptive crowd as part of a tour for his latest book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God (Collins).

(ENTIRE BOOK) A collection of Professor Rahner's speeches and radio talks, dealing with the relationship between grace and freedom as understood in the Catholic Church.

As I talk to expectant mothers and sexually frustrated couples, and as I wake up each morning worrying about book sales and reviews, one theme seems to be recurring: Waiting suckAs I talk to expectant mothers and sexually frustrated couples, and as I wake up each morning worrying about book sales and reviews, one theme seems to be recurring: Waiting suckas I wake up each morning worrying about book sales and reviews, one theme seems to be recurring: Waiting sucks.