Sentences with phrase «good authors often»

A query letter is a vital document for writers seeking traditional publishers or literary agents, and one even good authors often get wrong.

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But when you stop to think of other options — one of the authors» many tips is to imagine that your current options are vanishing — you'll often discover an answer that's better than what you had been pondering.

Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting people run with their own ideas.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

Ashish Jha, the senior author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper, points out in a blog post that there are reasons why women doctors might well deliver better care, citing research to suggest that they might adhere more closely to established clinical practice guidelines and that patients often report better personal experiences (something that ultimately might lead to better outcomes).

In a LinkedIn article about the best advice she ever received, motivational speaker, author, and CNBC host Suze Orman wrote that success has often made her a target of nasty criticism «entirely disconnected from facts.»

The authors often say they have found the side that makes the first offer tends not to do as well in the negotiation.

The best - selling author and host of The Tim Ferris Show tells Inc. that people too often believe romanticized tales of entrepreneurs who took a huge risk — and ultimately reaped great rewards — by launching their businesses.

«Tinder supposedly makes it easier to have sex on tap, but it's pretty well established that people with a steady partner tend to have sex more often,» says Jean Twenge, one of the study's researchers and the author of Generation Me.

Kent M. Keith, a renowned servant leadership scholar, author, and speaker whom I often quote for his profound wisdom, said it best:

Good, the author states, often is the enemy of great.

And let me preface that by saying that I've often observed that of all the professions who also are authors, I do think that doctors are the best, if you look through history — Chekov and on and on.

Microsoft chief envisioning officer and author Dave Coplin believes workers often have better technology at home than in the workplace; it used to be the other way around.

While those who are starting businesses in their 50s may have developed a wealth of expertise and contacts over the years, they often have the wrong mindset, says small business expert Melinda Emerson, the best - selling author of «Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months.»

It was Philip Fisher, author of the groundbreaking Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, who often exhorted his readers to be cautious about trading in the stock of a company they have known for many years and come to understand well for one with which they are not as familiar as it introduces different types of risk.

This is why it is often a good idea to present Calvinistic ideas in their own words, from Calvinistic authors and teachers.

The author knows how to make an impact, often using short pithy sentences to good effect: «Peace of soul is the tranquility of order; an ordered heart, an ordered life according to God's precepts» (p. 55).

Shirl Hoffman, author of «Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sport,» says Christianity teaches «peace, humility, putting others before yourself,» while athletes are often more willing to cheat, hurt their opponents or take credit for their accomplishments.

In short, in regard to formation as well as curricular content, the authors of these essays have good ideas but seem too often unconnected to the realities of most contemporary seminaries.

This fall, the best - selling author released Vanishing Grace, in which he argues that the American church has often failed at communicating grace and shows how we can get back on track.

If the question were expanded to include novelists — the most sociological of major art forms — a well - informed literary critic might offer a few names such as Ron Hansen or Alice McDermott, authors whose subject matter is often overtly Catholic.

While the Lutheran view is often (justly) accused of pessimism, it does have the virtue of acknowledging the inevitability of imperfection and unhappiness in an institution which is, as the authors admit, only a subordinate and temporal good.

The same God is the author of our natural intellect as well as revelation, as classical Catholic theology so often reminds us, so we should not be surprised if what the Church teaches makes wonderful sense also just from a purely natural point of view and people end up doing what the Church recommends, not because she recommends it, but just because it is the most sensible thing to do.

Too often we bring our own biases to the text / argument and what we read in is, «Well, I always knew that he thought that, and this proves it,» when really that's not what the author intended at all.

Often the best analogies for the meanings of words and the overtones which an author intended to convey are provided in the author's own writings.

Author Chris McChesney has often praised Towne Park for our dedication to the 4DX system: «I get asked all the time, «Who's good at the Franklin Covey execution methodology?

«The best toys for babies are often the simplest,» says author Kim.

Sharing that she and fellow author and friend Ann Patchett both had older husbands who absolutely adored them (Patchett's second husband is 16 years older than she), she said they often joked that if they couldn't make their marriages work, well, no marriage would work.

In her book The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, Author Stephanie Coontz attempts to separate the myths surrounding reminiscence of the good old days from the often harsh realities that women and children faced in the past.

Like psychologist and author Madeline Levine, whose recent book Teach Your Children Well instructs otherwise well - intended parents to value character ahead of achievement, Tough finds evidence that children of the well - off are often denied the hard life experiences that would allow them to develop the qualities that breed succWell instructs otherwise well - intended parents to value character ahead of achievement, Tough finds evidence that children of the well - off are often denied the hard life experiences that would allow them to develop the qualities that breed succwell - intended parents to value character ahead of achievement, Tough finds evidence that children of the well - off are often denied the hard life experiences that would allow them to develop the qualities that breed succwell - off are often denied the hard life experiences that would allow them to develop the qualities that breed success.

Also mounting good campaigns are talented candidates with good ideas like Brian Kavanagh, former chief - of - staff for Council Member Gale Brewer, and aide to former Mayors Ed Koch & David Dinkins; Chris Papajohn who served on the American Civil Liberties Union's committee on disability law when they discovered that U.S. Post Offices are often not accessible to people with disabilities; Gur Tsabar, an aide to Speaker Gifford Miller, is articulate and well - informed on many issues, and authored an editorial in the April 14 Town & Village newspaper about unjust redlining of disabled New Yorkers due to budget concerns; Darren Bloch, a former Con Ed spokesperson who is a member of Community Board 6, is well - versed on housing and homelessness issues.

«It's often thought that kids don't do well because they're dumb, and there's nothing we can do about it,» says lead study author Clancy Blair, associate professor of human development and family studies at Pennsylvania State University.

«Resurfacing a joint with donated bone and cartilage tissue is often a better option for young patients with active lifestyles,» said Brett Crist, M.D., an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

This is often where courts have erred, the PSPI authors note, allowing witnesses to make confidence statements «at pretrial hearings or at trial, well after the witness might have undergone serious confidence inflation from repeated identifications, coaching, confirmatory feedback, and so on.»

The study authors point out that the continuity and stability of care is often better in institutions, as are opportunities for child - centric activities and education.

«While the presence of lymphocytes in tumors is often associated with better clinical outcomes, this research adds clarity on the diversity of T cells within the tumor environment and their influence on ovarian cancer outcomes,» says first author Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD, FRCOG, FACOG, Deputy Director, M. Steven Piver Professor and Chair of Gynecologic Oncology, and Executive Director of the Center for Immunotherapy at Roswell Park.

The authors also continued to say that hospitals should create a welcoming and comfortable birthing environment, as well as address unnecessary obstetric interventions, both of which are often a primary motivation for planned homebirth.

Unlike authors of best - selling novels, when Mother Nature writes a mystery, she often keeps us from finding the whole answer.

Author of the study Aldrich commented, «Far too often, well - meaning, animal - loving people fail to recognize the suffering of wild primates in captivity.

«Alcoholic liver disease is a spectrum of conditions that range from hepatic steatosis, which is fat deposition in the liver and it is reversible with sobriety, to alcoholic hepatitis which is a more severe condition characterized by extensive and severe inflammation in the liver and often requires hospitalization,» explained Valentina Medici, associate professor of internal medicine at UC Davis Health System as well as corresponding author for the study.

Quite simply, the author's belief is that «very good» is often better than «best.»

The calculation model the authors used includes economic benefits for producers and consumers as well as the benefits of reduced malnutrition among subsistence farm - households often not explicitly considered in previous studies.

Amanda Bayer, lead author of the research study, explained that most often horticultural best management practices (BMPs) are used to conserve water, but that BMPs do not account for water requirements of plants.

Jonathan Schertzer, assistant professor of biochemistry and biomedical sciences and senior author of a paper published by Cell Metabolism, explains it this way: «We know that gut bacteria, often called the microbiome, send inflammation signals that change how well insulin works to lower blood glucose.

Better understanding of the beta - cell proliferation process eventually may lead toward therapies for diabetes patients, whose supplies of these cells often shrink over time, says Rohit Kulkarni, M.D., Ph.D., a Joslin Senior Investigator and senior author on a paper about the work published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

«We had a good idea of what the prevalence of vulvodynia was but this data gives us a better understanding of how often new cases develop and the potential risk factors that may be involved,» says lead author Barbara D. Reed, M.D., M.S.P.H., professor of family medicine at the U-M Medical School.

Judith Orloff, MD, a Los Angeles — based psychiatrist and author of Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear, agrees, and she often folds anonymous good deeds into her day.

I'm originally from Hawaii, but now I live in beautiful Victoria, B.C. I'm a health and fitness writer and published author — you'll often see my advice in Lifehacker, Men's Journal, Alive, Eating Well, Best Health, Paste, Mind Body Green and more.

When working with teens, be it in the classroom, studio or athletic field, I often refer to Chapter 9 where the authors discuss Compassion and Assertion, which can work well together, a surprising concept to many teens.

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