Sentences with phrase «book about failure»

I've even been working on a book about failure, which I hope to complete this year.

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As we scale, I think about things with a 10X mindset, laid out by Grant Cardone in his book The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure.

J.K. Rowling, author of the best - selling children's book series «Harry Potter,» knows a lot about achieving success — and failure.

Believe me I know about this - I wrote a book about my interminable failures in my career and telling people off was one of my biggest faults.

The same happened a few other times when he wrote about some personal failures, his book and even went to a few speaking engagements, but he learned to push through the fear each time.

Earlier this year I read her book, Invent It, Sell It, Bank It, and was intrigued to read about her failures and successes throughout her journey.

At a time when the political and financial elite gathered at Davos frets about the failures of capitalism and the need for its reform, Professors Yvan Allaire and Mihaela Firsirotu, in a new book titled «A Capitalism of Owners ``, propose an action plan to change fundamentally the way capitalism has come to work.

The book's weakness lies in its failure to say enough about how to help the strivers in the ghetto, like Tina.

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.

Her honesty about the uncomfortable realities of life and faith — the unresolved, the disappointments, the mysterious, the gray, the hopeful, the routine, the failures, the valiant efforts — give this book a more conversational and intimate feel than any of her others.

Men who write books about their heroes make much of their good points, and gloss over or excuse their sins and failures.

Men who write books about their enemies make much of their sins and failures, and gloss over their good qualities.

He admits that «any indication in my book that truly Christian conservatives are not just as concerned about justice as liberals are may be a failure on my part.»

Instead, her honesty about the uncomfortable realities of life and faith — the unresolved, the disappointments, the mysterious, the gray, the hopeful, the routine, the failures, the valiant efforts — give this book a more conversational and intimate feel than any of her others.

But if the purpose was to provide a panorama of opinions about the pastoral letter, these parochialisms may have contributed to the book's failure to present any substantive debate.

I love the idea that YOU write a book about learning to cook, what suggestions you found helpful and your successes and failures.

total failure... Can you believe Wenger spent 32 millions on 2 average players (Chambers and Welbeck) and is penny pinching when is sbout real class players?What is in his mind?Pay a fortune in salary for mediocre players live Walcott, Ramsey and Wilshere and have hesitations about increasing Sanchez wages... keeping on books failures like Sanogo... The truth is - I say it for years and years - until the «British core» disapears, we are not going to be succesful.The low quality of British players is dragging the team back.Last time Arsenal was a powerhouse NONE of the first 11 was British.Wanna see how the British quality looks like in a football team - look no further than national sides of England, Scotland, N Ireland, Wales, even Ireland (not British but same style)- all mediocre teams «able» to be defeated by any team coming to mind.And you are asking about Chambers?He is in the same mold like Wilshere,Walcott,Ox,Ramsey,Gibs,Jenkinson - mediocre overpriced and overpaid players.The world is full with hungry, ambitious and skilled players living in poverty and dreaming of moving to the top at any cost or sacrifice (did you see the poor house - if you can call that house, looking more like an old tent - in which Alexis Sanchez grew up?Or Suarez?)

Despite attending La Leche League meetings while pregnant and reading books about breastfeeding I didn't know that lactation consultants did weighed feeds or that if my child was diagnosed with failure to thrive it was time to see one.

She writes about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Atlantic, Vermont Public Radio, and the New York Times and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed.

That is Jessica Lahey's message in «The Gift of Failure,» one of the most talked - about parenting books of the year.

She is also working on a book about school turnaround driven by her personal experiences through her brother, Maurice, who was functionally illiterate as a result of failures in the public school system and died at a young age.

An excellent resource is Coach Scott Abel who has written books about these very topics and has helped treat people after they've dieted into metabolic failure.

In short, this book is about «the failures of test - based accountability.»

The Brave Unicorn is an illustrated children's bedtime book that attracts children to read with pop culture artwork (including Gangnam Style, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, Slurpee and Star Wars), while teaching kids grit including life lessons about how to overcome disappointment and failure.

Public speaking has given me a forum to talk about my writing, publishing, and my books, but it's also opened doors to other topics I'm keenly interested in, such as overcoming the fear of failure, and women's issues.

Ms. Tierce's publishing success turned out to be a giant failure, even though she got the fabulous book contract and the rave reviews we all fantasize about.

When you do publish, you wonder why your book isn't selling, why it isn't getting reviews, why you haven't been invited to do interviews, why no one is blogging about your book, why you feel like a failure.

I love my job and hope to see my author's succeed, so I'm not complaining about them, just a challenging situation — and a situation perhaps that is critical to the success and failure of indie published books that nobody else is talking about.

This being my blog, you'll be subject to reading about my failures and successes as I learn how to turn a manuscript into a real, honest to goodness book.

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Some guesses make more sense than others (many stated in previous comments), but nothing in this book gave me a clue - I see this as a failure to underdeveloped this thread - the title of the book; some story about wolves - just enough so the reader has some connection to the main character - would have helped.

Best - selling novelist Chuck Palahniuk writes about the successes and failures of the often exhausting, but always necessary author book tour.

We're not talking success versus failure, or how the author feels about his or her own book.

In my unique position, I get lots of opportunities to talk to other book authors about their failures and successes.

Working mainly across printed posters and books, Guccini creates work that looks stately and pared back yet injects humour to it all: he describes his superb Dutch Design summer school Open Set posters as «about: my failure in Rotterdam.»

... In a recently published book titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, the technically qualified authors (scientists all) point to four reasons: a conflict among scientists in different disciplines; fundamental scientific uncertainties concerning how the global climate responds to the human presence; failure of the UN's IPCC to provide objective guidance to the complex science; and bias among researchers.»

From this week's Nature — a book review about the difficulty of earthquake prediction (p755): «As examples of scientific integrity, some spectacular prediction failures win accolades of praise.

I'm writing a book called «The Case for Global Warming,» and Dr. O'Dell's discoveries about the peer - review system failure in the case of Lindzen and Choi 2009 would be relevant.

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Another strength of this book is that it focuses on areas that have been given short shrift in previous works on Canadian copyright: users» rights (an area of increasing importance, since most public discourse about copyright focuses on what we can't do rather than what we can); aboriginal approaches to intellectual property rights (which emphasize the protection of the honour of clans, cultures, and nations over the rights of individual creators); digital rights management (and its spectacular failure to actually protect content); and public licensing systems (such as the Creative Commons licenses).

Kath: I'm not going to apologize for the fact that a lot of what is going on in assessment centres and in my book is about psychology and so fears of humiliation, failure, being the only one standing up there, sort of fear of loneliness, rejection — these are primal fears, you know.

This project may not have been a win, but your * post * about it had me in stitches, and anyone who can be so hilariously relatable and self - deprecating over their own failure is okay in my book.