Sentences with phrase «books of some of my friends»

Kate had purchased books of some of my friends.

Not exact matches

If Target can predict a pregnant woman's due date based solely on her buying habits at its stores (and it can), then just imagine how intimately Google — with access to your e-mail, calendar, address book and list of friends and acquaintances — could know you already.

My friend Scott Stratten is a fantastic keynote speaker and author of many books, including QR Codes Kill Kittens.

When President Trump has his physical exam on Friday, there is little chance he will repeat the same story within a span of 10 minutes or fail to recognize old friends, as the explosive new book «Fire and Fury» by Michael Wolff asserts he has done in the past.

Keep it up by reading books like The Art of Communicating, by Thich Nhat Hanh and How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age, by Dale Carnegie and Associates.

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.

In his new book Leading the Life You Want, Wharton School professor Stew Friedman identifies four key spheres of life: family, work, friends and community and health (mental and spiritual).

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

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

Wolowitz, a childhood friend of Russell's, worked for a booking agency, and Reisman had been Russell's co-worker at Superfly.

Whether it's coaching a kids» sports team like the CEO of Insureon, playing a regular game of pickup soccer like celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, or extending a standing invitation to your friends for a Sunday evening supper like Huckabee, all the successful people profiled in the book plot out their weekends in advance (though not every minute; just a few «anchor events,» as Vanderkam dubs them) and make active use of the hours they have.

«Back to the Secret Garden» «Black Books: Series 1 - 3» «Christmas with the Kranks» «Get Rich or Die Tryin»» «Hard Candy» «Hugo» «Ravenous» «The Brothers» «The Legend of Hell House» «The Matrix» «The Matrix Reloaded» «The Matrix Revolutions» «The Newton Boys» «Thomas & Friends: A Very Thomas Christmas» «Thomas & Friends: Holiday Express» «Thomas & Friends: Merry Winter Wish» «Thomas & Friends: The Christmas Engines» «Thomas & Friends: Ultimate Christmas» «Twilight» «V for Vendetta»

A friend of mine who knows him told me my book was the only book that Buffett thought was accurate about him).

Some of my closest friends have come from book clubs, church groups, and standing family dinners.

«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.

While gadgets are often a source of «complexity, frustration and headaches» for the nation's 76 million baby boomers, said AARP chief JoAnn Jenkins in a statement, the RealPad aims to help them embrace «the benefits of technology such as connecting with family, friends, communities and enjoying books, games and learning.»

By booking her workout classes in advance, Dunnahoo - Kirsch is able to combine the commitment she makes with the social pressure from friends she works out with, into a powerful accountability hack for keeping her version of work - life balance in line.

So he was just being... And I thought I've got to find out about that so I called a friend of mine in Tokyo and I asked him if are there any books on this guy, Kuribayashi who was the defender of Iwo Jima?

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

Apparently, if any friends have shared their love of books on Facebook, you can cross them off your list of potential psychos.

Seeking an alternative method of generating publicity about the book, Kessler bootstrapped, and tapped friends and colleagues until he found a generous landlord who wanted to support the arts.

One of my friends recommended this book to me because she knows my interest in magazines and thrillers, and I'm happy she did.

After reading my new book, Real Leaders Don't Follow, an old friend and business associate who's had a long and successful career, Ziv Azmanov, sent me an email that, among other things, does a pretty effective job of explaining what distinguishes real entrepreneurs from the pack:

Perhaps it's no wonder, then, that two of the most revered leadership books of all time — Steven R. Covey's «The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People» and Dale Carnegie's «How to Win Friends and Influence People» — are bibles of empathic practice.

Allen makes an engaging storyteller, and the book's best passages capture the thrill of discovery he experienced at the fore of the burgeoning personal computer industry, or the behind - the - scenes tensions inevitable when two teenage friends grow into the twin heads of a multinational corporation.

His career - defining book «The 4 - Hour Workweek» turned 10, he turned 40, and a couple of his friends died.

When Steve Jobs passed away, friends and family attending his funeral received a small gift from the late tech genius: Autobiography of a Yogi, a book focused on the «ancient science of Yoga and its time - honored tradition of meditation.»

For our extroverted friends, the book should also serve as a helpful explainer for the quieter third of the office.

Ann Curry, another former «Today» cohost who left the show after just about one year «felt that the boys» club atmosphere behind the scenes at Today undermined her from the start, and she told friends that her final months were a form of professional torture,» according to Brian Stelter's 2014 book «Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV.»

A couple of months ago I shared with you a factoid from my friend Gianni Kovacevic's book «My Electrician Drives a Porsche?»

We committed to nursing our pride, reading books, drinking wine, cooking, reconnecting as friends and thinking about to do next outside the fishbowl of Silicon Valley.

Also reported to Peterson: reports of Cruz cutting himself, ingesting gasoline to commit suicide, had drawn a swastika on his book bag and told a friend he wanted to buy a gun for hunting, according to the complaint.

and my books are typically about aspects of my own life, my friends» lives, and the community in which we live.

On the subject of the right people, you describe «the five contact circles» in your book (intimates, friends, key contacts, acquaintances and community at large).

Today's social applications are successful because of the insights that emerge through their use — the suggestion of music or books that you might like based on mutual interests that you have with a friend, for example.

This is exactly why today on Better Business Coach podcast I have asked a close personal friend, Judy Robinett, to share some of the wisdom that made her book, «How to Be a Power Connector,» a best seller.

I read a lot more books, traveled 337k miles between 91 cities, spent more time in Texas, kept my health in a good balance with weight training, running, and a better diet including several months of 16/8 intermittent fasting, while still getting in some excellent meals with friends and loved ones (up to 58 % of top 50 list).

This book is such a friend, pulling together some of the best threads available to weave a blanket that can keep you warm.

His new book is called Friend Of A Friend.

So that's what «Buddhist Boot Camp» is — a collection of all my journal entires, emails and letters to friends compiled into a book.

The book then went through over 20 revisions with the help of my father and my best friend.

One last example, I promise: Last year I realized just how frazzled it made me to fit focused work in between meetings and phone calls every day of the week while still leaving enough space to be with my family, serve my community, visit friends, and read a book or two.

If you want to educate one of your friends who thinks that such disasters are impossible, this is the book for him.

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.

Celebrity scion Ronan Farrow said that Hillary Clinton tried to avoid speaking to him for his new book because he was in the middle of exposing her good friend Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator.

This time with my friend David Meerman Scott, best - selling author of numerous books including The New Rules of Marketing & PR, Real - Time Marketing & PR and a new book called Newsjacking (Wiley) created specifically for the Amazon Kindle.

«Two of my best friends aren't here anymore,» said freshman Sammy Cooper, who picked up the book bag he had dropped as he saw the accused gunman, 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, begin shooting.

Value investor Guy Spier, who won the lunch in 2008 bidding alongside his friend Mohnish Pabrai, recounted the experience in his book «Education Of A Value Investor.»

FreedomFest was founded in 2002 by my friend Mark Skousen, then - president of the Foundation for Economic Education and author of several books, including one of my favorites, The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.

Biden's first presidential run was derailed by a plagiarism scandal, and the former vice president will face much more scrutiny after the publication of Breitbart News Editor - at - Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer's blockbuster new book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.