Sentences with phrase «hitting the books in»

When David DeFazio graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1992, he decided to hit the mountains of Jackson, Wyoming before hitting the books in law school.

There, Strange eventually puts aside his scientific scepticism, hits the books in the library and starts taking his own leaps into the cosmic.

Sometimes a parent decides to buy a place for their children while they hit the books in university or college.

We've been hitting the books in Bunaken this week as our first PADI IDC (Instructor Development Course) of the year is getting underway.

You now have the option of improving your prisoner's mental faculties by hitting the books in the library or just building up pure brawn by hitting the weights.

Not exact matches

But I've never written a book that has become such an enormous hit that I suddenly have $ 15 million in the bank.

After reading half a chapter of the book, the message hit me in the face like a ton of bricks.

As you can see, it did not hit those targets once in the three quarters since — even booking a slight decline in the first quarter of 2013.

Diamandis, whose new book, Bold, hits stores in February, encourages entrepreneurs to aim high.

He called his diagnosis «adrenal fatigue» — more pithily dubbed the «21st - century stress syndrome» in a subsequent book — and estimates it hits half the North American population at some point in their lives.

It's not Facebook, which hit 2 billion users recently, or Amazon, which booked more than $ 1 billion in revenue during its one - day Prime sale last month.

EI's value to leadership has been touted since Harvard psychology professor Daniel Goleman's book Emotional Intelligence hit the shelves in 1995.

Within a couple of days, 10,000 orders had been placed for the book — which was originally released in 2013 — and it hit N0.

Self - publishing is shedding its stigma in the book world thanks to smash hits like On the Island and Fifty Shades of Grey.

One of the most interesting things I found in researching my book Mapping Innovation is that the firms that invested in basic exploration eventually hit on something big, What's more, the massive return on investment it generated paid for all of the failed projects many times over.

In an interview with Fortune, Smith discussed the new book, Netflix's hit, House of Cards, and the future of entertainment.

When he hits the mark, Bezos, who started selling books from his garage 22 years ago, becomes the first man to bump Gates from his perch in seven years and is only the sixth man to hold the «richest person» title in the past 30 years, according to Forbes.

In his book, which recently hit No. 8 on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list, Britton presents a strong case that Millennials have the power to disrupt everything from business to culture to politics.

And it looks like New Yorkers can't get enough: The four - year - old company's two locations have booked a 2,792 percent rise in three - year sales, which hit $ 3.4 million in 2014.

He hopes the personal - transformation tales gathered in his updated book (called «Discover Your True North») will help young leaders «accelerate that learning curve, and become self - aware earlier in their lives, without hitting the wall,» he tells Inc..

He was considered the most successful music producer ever, cited in the Guinness Book of Records for having more than 50 number - one hit records over five decades in the United States and Britain alone...

Berkshire Hathaway's results were hit in 2011 from setbacks in its insurance and housing - related businesses, but growth in its book value handily outpaced the broader stock market.

It's been more than four years now since the giddily titled book Go Canada: The Coming Boom in the Toronto Stock Market and How to Profit From It hit store shelves, advising its hopeful readers that within a decade the Toronto Stock Exchange would more than double in value to 30,000 points.

When she's not hitting the books as a student at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, Princess Iman joins her mother on royal outings in their native Jordan and to places like the UK, France, Italy, China, and Japan.

That decrease in income may not show up on your books, but your staff will definitely notice the hit.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but after making the shift with acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.

Recently, a video featuring author of the hit book, Start With Why, Simon Sinek, shared a video (that has since gone viral) touching on Millennials in the workplace — and why they are the way they are.

United said this week its chief executive met with the Chinese consulate in Chicago over the possible impact to bookings from a customer being dragged off a plane but it was too early to tell if business in China had been hit by the event.

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

Marie Kondo released her book The Life - Changing Magic of Tidying Up back in 2014 and it really hit home.

Something that really hit home for me in the book is you said something like, «Personal finance writers believe that if people would just listen carefully to our advice, everything would be fine.»

With the success of «The Jungle Book,» Disney proved that it could pull off a hit in the normally quiet month of April.

If you want to host a book party at your startup or in your city, please hit reply and let me know.

(``... I thought, he would maybe hit one gonad but not both,» Musk said in Vance's book of the knife thrower he hired for a bash.)

Elsewhere, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which has been particularly hard hit, is trading at less than 12x earnings and barely 1.25 x book, a level last seen during the lows in early 2009.

His 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (also co-authored with Levinson), was published in April, 2016 by Morgan James, and hit two different category best - seller lists in its first two weeks.

The Content Marketing Coach: Everything You Need to Get in the Game... and WIN is the book that's missing from your desk right now — the book that will help you map out a laser - focused content marketing strategy and hit the playing field with confidence.

Shel's latest (10th) book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, immediately hit two category best - seller lists when it was released in April, 2016.

His tenth book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, was released in April and immediately hit two bestseller lists upon its release.

A Quill & Quire «Book of the Year», Slow Death by Rubber Duck has been featured by the Washington Post (which said it «is hard - hitting in a way that turns your stomach and yet also instills hope»), Dr. Oz, Fox News, and Oprah Magazine, and translated into six languages.

The collapse in total consumption was much larger in states that were hit hardest by the decline in house prices, something we show in our book.

In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball.

I can see myself bringing this up in conversation for at least a year or 18 months before I'd hit everyone in my address book with whom I could have this kind of exchange and compiling the most eclectic collection of stories one could imagine.

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It would take a few pages to lay it out, but the highlights are hit on in the book «Jesus Among Other Gods,» by Ravi Zacharius.

The following post hits on one of the themes I write about in this book.

There is so much heart, wonder, and most of all authentic soul in this book, you won't know what hit you.»

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The film took in $ 67 million, a surprise hit that was buoyed in part by a built - in audience familiar with the bestselling book the movie is based on.