Sentences with phrase «book written my friend»

I've been reading a great new book written my friend Jessica Turner called The Fringe Hours, Making Time for You.

Not exact matches

There are many classic books about writing effective copy, and «How to win friends and influence people» should be required reading for anyone who wants to improve their marketing chops.

It's written by Gates» late friend, Swedish statistician and global health expert Hans Rosling, and Rosling's son and daughter - in - law, who helped finish the book after he died in 2017.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

The best measure I had of my writing quality before starting was my friends» review of a draft of a book.

«The last lawyer working on it does now know what the first one worked out», the author, and friend of Ingvar Kamprad, Bertil Torekull wrote in his book «Historien om IKEA», first published in 1998.

«A person's name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language,» writes Dale Carnegie in his classic book «How to Win Friends and Influence People ``, and those words couldn't be truer.

My friends who read my first attempts at writing my book, years ago, struggled to tell me how unreadable it was, so I wasn't born with engaging writing.

She planned to write a book, but her notes became instead a business plan for a beauty and cosmetics company that relied on women to sell merchandise to their friends and acquaintances through direct sales (otherwise known as multilevel marketing).

My friend and mentor, Marc Ecko, wrote an amazing book called Unlabeled: The Art of Selling Without Selling Out.

In 2010, she wrote the national bestselling business book Power Friending (Portfolio: New York).

Ernest Hemingway never codified his insights on writing into a book, but he did share his thinking on the topic in commissioned articles; letters to his agents, publishers, and friends; and through his novels.

«It hit me last year: after I finished writing Originals, a friend asked me how I was planning to celebrate my second book.

Before I ever wrote my first book I was a story - teller; I created the fairy - tale story and would gather friends together and tell my story to them.

This book gives great advice for investing and is written in a very easy to read style (it was like a close friend was giving me their honest advice).

Our good friends Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk, proprietors of Themis Trading and experts on market structure, have at last written a book about markets.

My friend Jason Brady wrote an entire book on this subject, called Income Investing, which is a great book for equity people who might not know a lot about bonds.

I think of my dear friend Robert Millet, with whom Richard Mouw has led this Evangelical - Mormon dialogue (and in which I have happily participated) and with whom I wrote a book.

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?!)

Finally: I'd like to issue a big thank - you to our friend, Matthew Vines, who not only wrote a great book for discussion, but who has jumped into the comment section several times to respond to your questions and ideas.

We go to church, we participate in leadership meetings to shape the conversations of our communities, we pray for our friends, we make meals, I write posts and articles and books about God, we wash our minivans, we set up the sprinkler for the neighbourhood kids and hand out freezies to hopeful hands, we go to work, we talk about the people we know.

This was a full year for our family: Haiti, book writing, book deals, finishing seminary, working, three small tinies, church, family, friends, life, change, home making, blogging, working, all of it.

But one of the first book reviews I read, written by a dear friend and mentor, started out by saying «Introverts in the Church.

I can picture Christmas supper and birthdays, friends around the real wood fireplace, new books written here, tinies on trampolines, a garden at long last for my patient husband, late nights and early mornings and creating comfort as ministry.

Show us evidence that your imaginary friend exists, otherwise that horror story book you quote is no different than quoting Harry Potter... just one more story written by man and in this case used to promote hate, bigotry and oppression... used to fool the gullible!

When I was writing More Than Serving Tea I confided in a few friends who helped my husband juggle the preschool and elementary school schedules so that I could get away to write, edit, and promote the book.

One of his friends wrote in a book once, after reflecting on the necessary good that frequent defeats built into a man's character, he personally could not trust anyone who did not play sports.

In the last years of his life his influence was further underscored in that others began to write books about him — a trend that was to intensify after his death so that now we see a steady stream of theses, monographs and studies coming out each year, though we still await the authorized biography to be done by his old friend John Howard Griffin.

We're talking about discipline (or the lack of it), church today, new friend debriefings, the book I'm writing, the school he's trying to finish (still) and how frustrating it is to work and work and still feel like you're just barely making ends meet because I do a lot of things really well but unfortunately, none of them make us much money.

Sending a copy of one of his books to a friend, he noted that it «was written by Jack Donne and not by Dr Donne.»

When that is all finished and your mega church is in place, write your spiritual «memoirs», have your church board order tens of thousands of copies to sell to the church folks and their families and friends, which should put your book on the best - seller list.

Six entries made our final cut: three sermons and speeches, King's most radical book, an astonishing letter he wrote as a college student, and a «eulogy» he delivered for a friend that revealed a side of him the public rarely saw.

When Rollo May writes in his book Paulus (p. 113) about his friend and teacher Paul Tillich, he speaks about Tillich's relationships with others by saying, «His love for us was relentless in his... insistence on our best.

Dr Blamires, who counted CS Lewis among his friends and wrote «The Christian Mind» in 1963, wrote 30 books in his lifetime.

Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that actually makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and money, that fame - seekers exist within the church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that authors can indeed write good books but run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....

This books consists of several letters written by CS Lewis to his friend and fellow author, Malcolm Muggeridge, on the topic of prayer.

I have a friend who wrote a book proposal for a memoir.

First, with my friends at HarperOne, I am writing a book of daily devotionals based on the meditations I send Obama each morning.

This little book is written as a reply to my many friends who have asked me, in the midst of conversations going in various directions.

I actually started off writing a different book and wrote most of that book and toward the end of it I called a friend who is a great writing coach and he set me down and said, «OK, I think you're writing the wrong book, I think you've found that there's a symptom here and you're not dealing with the problem.»

Meanwhile, yesterday I received from my thoughtful friends in the First Things office a third copy of a book entitled Write These Laws on Your Children, by Robert Kunzman.

Nadler relates in detail the gruesome punishment inflicted by the Amsterdam city council upon one of Spinoza's friends, the freethinking Adriaan Koerbagh, who had written a book intended to criticize, even mock, nearly all organized religion, including the Dutch Reformed variety.

As I write in the book, «I grew obstinate and incorrigible, ready to debate family and friends whose easy confidence baffled and frustrated me and gave me an excuse to be angry at someone besides God.

At the dinner, my friend said he admired a book I didn't like, so I sent him a copy of a review of the book I'd written.

That society, in turn, is mirrored in another book, written a couple of centuries before How to Win Friends or The Power of Positive Thinking.

My friend Jonathan Hollingsworth and his mother Amy Hollingsworth wrote a book together about his experiences with harmful Christian ministries and their destructive leaders.

Now a gay journalist, Stephen Jimenez, has written The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, based on investigative interviews with over 100 people, including the convicted killers and friends of both the killers and the victim.

And he had to write in similar vein to his friend Christoph Scheurl, once the Dean Of Law at Wittenberg and now a leading humanist at Nuremberg, to whom Staupitz had shown the book.

In a letter to a friend at Zwickau, Luther wrote about Eck's text in desperate apocalyptic mood: «The book... is nothing less than the malice and envy of a maniac... Rejoice, Brother, rejoice, and be not terrified by these whirling leaves... The more they rage the more cause I give them...»

My friend Wesley Hill has written a wonderful book about being a celibate gay Christian called Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality.