Sentences with phrase «book about courage»

The engaging plot can certainly carry the tale, but Hale's likable, introspective heroine makes this also a book about courage and justice in the face of overwhelming odds.

Sirota gets the last word, calling Ford «an avatar of the most powerful people in this country,» adding: «In this economy, and you've written a book about courage... I don't really get it.»

Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.

Not exact matches

In his new book, The Courage to Act, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke argues policymakers» speeches «aren't just about policy; they are policy tools.»

In his recent book, The Courage to Act, Bernanke writes about what it was like at the center of the storm.

In order to demonstrate her courage, she opens the book with an account of losing her virginity to a boy she «dated» for about twelve hours.

The author of a new book, Magnificent Desolation, Aldrin argues, «More than just exploring a hostile new world, Apollo 11 was about bold vision and great risk, about the obstacles a great nation could overcome with dedication, courage and teamwork.

In his influential book The Courage to Be Catholic, George Weigel wrote about the «The Truce of 1968.»

It reminds me of some books I've read about teams on Mount Everest... the struggle, the necessity of clear communication, the risk, the danger, the rigor, the courage.

This problem, too, is very insightfully analyzed by George Weigel in The Courage To Be Catholic, undoubtedly the best book on what has gone wrong and what might be done about it.

On T.S. Eliot Fr Nichols displays greatintellectual and cultural courage by writing sensibly and approvingly about Eliot's After Strange Gods, a book now seen as controversial because of one sentence that some have interpreted as anti-Semitic.

As I further learned about how her attempts in getting a book published, which seemed to be shown the door more times than desired in as many years, I had to admire the courage to hear «No» and still believe in yourself.

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski had a few favorite books this year, each one about perseverance, hope and survival: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah; The Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution & Chance by Kayt Sukel; and Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island by Regina Calcaterra.

-- Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Financiers to innovators including Hotmail, Skype, and Overture.com «Tim Ferriss's book is about gaining the courage to streamline your life... But even more than that, it challenges the reader to seriously consider an essential — yet rarely asked — question: What do you really want from life?»

About this Book: Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age Dan Zak Blue Rider Press, 2016

That's when I realized (with a gulp) that I needed to write a book about fear and courage.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

This isn't to say the book is worth much of a shit, but to say that it at least has the courage to talk about a rape and a murder where the film only has the mustard to romanticize loss and suggest that 1973 was so long ago the freak next door didn't raise any flags.

From the artistry of Georgia O'Keefe to the courage of Jackie Robinson, from the strength of Helen Keller to the patriotism of George Washington, President Obama sees the traits of these heroes within his own children, and within all of America's children... This beautiful book is about the potential within each of us to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

The Christian Science Monitor has just named «Educational Courage» one of the Top 15 «Must - Read» Books about K - 12 Education in the US:

In my good friend, Cathy Lassiter's book, Everyday Courage for School Leaders (2017) she writes about courage and its value in the work of a priCourage for School Leaders (2017) she writes about courage and its value in the work of a pricourage and its value in the work of a principal.

Her book's title is The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (and BookPage interviewed her all about it).

Although relentless in its portrayal of systematic evil, «The Book of Aron» is nonetheless a story of such candor about the complexity of heroism that it challenges us to greater courage.

I expected to find out about books I might want to read — which I did — but was also absorbed by Will Schwalbe's tribute to his wonderful mother and her story of courage in the face of pain and illness.

Without them, I would not have had the courage to put my book out there, or the voice with which to continue to talk about it.

It takes courage to walk into a bookstore and talk about your book.

Your book about making a living with one's writing gave me courage and also helped me identify, which of the available methods to try first.

For every author in this business, there are three people out there who have a book in their heads but don't the courage do anything more than dream about it.

For Jacob's Courage, I interviewed Holocaust survivors, purchased some excellent non-fiction books and memoirs about the Holocaust and I devoted considerable research on the Internet.

Mr. Wooten talked about his book We Are All The Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love, published by Penguin Press.

Perhaps about the book that I'd finally mustered the courage to write just this year?

Focusing on Philip Guston's mature production in abstraction and his later figuration, this book argues for Guston as a consistent artist whose generic shift in the late 60s, from Monet - like abstract hatchings to the cartoonish forms of his final decade and a half, reminded artists everywhere that courage is what it's all about.

Close spoke candidly about the effect disability had on his life and work in the book Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artists written by Jean Kennedy Smith and George Plimpton and published by Random House.

She's co-authored a book about her curriculum, Intimacy from the Inside Out: Courage and Compassion in Couple Therapy along with her coauthors Donna M. Kerpelman and Martha Sweezy.