Sentences with phrase «handed the book of»

And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah.

In: Gross, J., Ed., Hand book of Emotion Regulation, Guilford, New York, 249 268.

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Having a couple inspirational books on hand that can motivate ambition and reaffirm priorities is nice to have, even if they don't pick them up for the first month or so that they're out of school.

We have to almost pry the book out of their hands so that we can finish it, even though they don't really have anything left to change.

You'll get to enjoy the weight of real books in your hands, the smell of knowledge and all this while mother earth will enjoy a greener planet.

Imagine handing hundreds of people your book when they ask for a business card.

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

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.

«I read blogs, books, I went to seminars, I did online courses, I just consumed any piece of information I could get my hands on so that I could learn and get an edge,» he says.

On - demand platforms give instant, mobile booking and payment features directly in the hands of clients, so hiring someone to perform a three bedroom clean (for example) is as easy as ordering a movie or requesting an Uber.

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.

John Warrillow, who sold his own consulting and services business, and author of the book «Built to Sell,» is offering this intimate, hands - on workshop on building a sellable business.

Frankly, we're intrigued and can't wait to get our hands on one, but that sentiment is tempered by venerable consumer product review house Consumer Reports, which already is taking a pass on recommending the new Surface Book because of problems with the original version.

«One could describe it as if Ikea grabs you by the hand and consciously guides you through the store in order to make you buy as much as possible,» Johan Stenebo, a 20 - year veteran of Ikea, wrote in his 2009 book, The Truth About Ikea.

In his book, Making the Corps, Tom Ricks described putting his life in the hands of a 22 - year - old Marine on a patrol in Somalia.

Out of all the books I have read around entrepreneurship, business, and leadership success, this has hands down had the most impact on the growth of myself, our business, and the development my own leadership skills as our team has grown from a startup to a global company with offices in London, Singapore, and New York.»

While thought provoking, the real value of the book comes from the practical, templated framework the authors provide for designing your own category that includes a clear articulation of the problem at hand, creating a memorable name for a category, and developing a unique point of view about the current and future of the category.

«It's all in one guy's hands, that's what makes it so interesting,» said David Kirkpatrick, author of «The Facebook Effect,» a book chronicling Zuckerberg's story that was written with the cooperation of the man and his company.

In his new book, «David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants,» Malcolm Gladwell says most people get this famous Biblical yarn all wrong because they misunderstand who really has the upper hand.

On the other hand, some of the most popular Android categories are personalization, entertainment and books and reference, based on a survey by AppBrain.

I've always had a soft spot for memoirs, and «Book of Joan» showed me it can be even more interesting to read a second - hand memoir.

We're not actually driving donation loads of books and handing them out to people who need them.

Robert Sutton, a professor of management at Stanford University and author of «The No Asshole Rule,» has seen this first hand in his research for the upcoming book «The Asshole Survival Guide.»

In an era of low interest rates, yield traps play into the hands of financial cheats who can cook the books by inventing revenue, altering expenses and creating assets.

With a healthy dose of humor, her new book, Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, offers a helping hand to young women seeking an equal playing — and paying — field.

As I argue in my forthcoming book, «The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America,» big corporations (in this case, Facebook) and political interests (in this case, right - wing parties and campaigns) but also ordinary Americans (social media users, and thus likely you and me) all had a hand in it.

In their latest book, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet, Jay Conrad Levinson, originator of guerrilla marketing, and award - winning marketing author and lifelong environmental activist Shel Horowitz stress that CSR, sustainability and profitability can go hand in hand.

I know my earlier book Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First has changed lives, and this book not only expands and amplifies those powerful concepts under a specifically eco-friendly lens, its also going to reach a lot more people because it has the support and power not only of my personal network, but also the resources of both a big NYC publisher (John Wiley & Sons) and my superstar co-author, Mr. Guerrilla Marketing himself, Jay Conrad Levinson — the man who brought us not only all the Guerrilla Marketing books but also Uniteds Friendly Skies, Allstates Good Hands, and even the Marlboro Man.

Terri Morrison is the co-author of nine books, including Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: The Bestselling Guide to Doing Business in More Than Sixty Countries (A Library Journal Best Business Books Winner and an Amazon.com Bestselling Business Etiquette Book) and Dun & Bradstreet's Guide to Doing Business Around the Wbooks, including Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: The Bestselling Guide to Doing Business in More Than Sixty Countries (A Library Journal Best Business Books Winner and an Amazon.com Bestselling Business Etiquette Book) and Dun & Bradstreet's Guide to Doing Business Around the WBooks Winner and an Amazon.com Bestselling Business Etiquette Book) and Dun & Bradstreet's Guide to Doing Business Around the World.

In her book, Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, Anne - Marie Slaughter advises: «Don't drop out, defer... if you keep your hand in the workforce while you are devoting more of your time to care, it will be easier to ramp up than to get back in.»

There Nolan Bushnell, later president of Atari, signed that book and played the Odyssey Ping - Pong game hands - on.

Executives at Ovitz's companies would routinely hand out copies of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, using the book and others like it to teach lessons.

We need your help so that we can work with a brilliant printer to create and distribute the first 3000 copies of this glorious book and place it in the hands of people all around the world.

That means it's good when money flows off the books of major companies and into the hands of wealthy investors.

Starbucks is ushering in the season with its first - ever coloring book inspired holiday cup, which features a hand - drawn design with lively holiday scenes and splashes of red and green.

Seeing that I wasn't quite following, and still reeling from the casual death threat, my dad handed me a dog - eared copy of Ed Thorp's book Beat the Dealer, and said that that was how he had learned.

Students have to pay for or buy a number of things ranging from text books, hand...

Those of you looking to learn from top global macro hedge fund managers will benefit from reading Steven Drobny's new book, The Invisible Hands.

«If the New Democrats are serious about their policy book, I don't think they're going to hand them over to Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, just»cause,» says former party official Ian Capstick, who identifies himself with what exists of a right flank of the NDP.

Maxwell Health is there with you every step of the way, with hands - on support to help retain and grow your book of business, win new clients, and streamline your operations for peak performance and efficiency.

This book busts a lot of myths and empowers investors to take their portfolio into their own hands.

Christianity is based on a book comprised of 2nd hand accounts and beyond as well as being translated across multiple languages (some of which being extinct) to illustrate parables on morality.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

all you religous crazies that are quoting things from the bible are nuts... its a book written by man who said that it was thru the hand of god... lol, this makes me laugh..

The National Council of Training and Leadership (NCTL), a body which deals with professional misconduct by teachers, heard how Wrigley treated Pupil A as a «teacher's pet», allowing the girl to collect spelling sheets and hand out books.

I happen to care that what I believe can be substantiated with verifiable evidence, you on the other hand accept things based off of a 2000 + year old book that can be and has been debunked numerous times over.

I think the only time these people invoke the «washing of the hands» is when the book is picked up.

«Muslims believe the Quran is the word of God, so holy that people should wash their hands before even touching the sacred book» is really saying something, considering they don't even do that after using the bathroom!

And certainly, the book appeals to the hand and eye of a reader looking for an easily digestible meal of ecclesiastical history.

Holding hands with a special someone, getting a hug, giving a hug, taking a nap, reading a good book, working out, knitting something, taking a good picture, baking something for someone, sitting and talking with people I love — all of these things bring me joy and leave me feeling content.