Sentences with phrase «how little they read»

In chapter after chapter, the author, a professor of English at Emory University, rails at how little they know, how little they read, and how their fascination with screens (television and computer) fails to produce learning.

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It's sort of interesting how much time everyone spends reading and writing about the habits of really successful people when I can tell you the one thing that sets them apart in one little phrase: They're not slackers.

How many presentations have you seen with a PowerPoint all lit up and the speaker a little hunched up person at a podium reading the same words you have already read on each slide?

Subscriptions will always require a little input from customers — at least, until we learn how to read their minds.

I've been reading Galbraith's The Predator State — see a review here — and it got me to thinking just how little our federal government — and governments elsewhere ---LSB-...]

''... read Bogle's new Little Book of Common Sense Investingand you'll see how easy it is to beat the Alpha Hunters at their own game!»

Yes, I know you have very little time, but reading about what other entrepreneurs have done in their businesses can give you great ideas about how to improve your own business.

What struck me when reading the book was how little Volcker and the other major participants in making the policy knew.

It is unfortunate reading through these posts to find how little science and the scientific process is understood by the masses.

They work in soup kitchens, care for abandoned babies, teach adults how to read, treat the sick, and do countless other good works, for which they receive almost no recognition and very little pay.

read a little about how the world in which you lived actually developed and quit sticking your head in the sand of historical ignorance.

And actually I was just reading an article about how the NRA is asking those a little too enthusiastic with guns to settle down b / c it is making them look bad....

I loved filling out the little progress sheets the librarian handed out each May and taped to the walls each August, and I loved how she always raised her eyebrows with feigned surprise when I showed her how much I read every week.

You can read a little bit more about how I've changed in Acts 2 and 3.

After reading «Good Night Moon» and «Guess How Much I Love You» tonight, I held onto her just a little longer and I sang into her hair because my heart was aching.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

Though 1 Corinthians 13 is often read at weddings, it has very little to do with the love between a man and a wife, and everything to do with how a church can function as the Body of Christ.

I think I know a little bit about how to read Scripture «in context.»

Let me give you a little hint right now about how to read this letter.

And Brandon, I've just purchased «How to Die» as well as it looked great too from the little bit I read on Amazon.com!

Also try Awareness by Anthony DiMello (a little bit of religion in it, but a wonderful look at how to view life)... and maybe Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsh (lots of «god» in it, but if you can see past it, a mind - blowing read).

This great little book is a quick read, and is full of humor (great for us guys), and is chock - full of ideas of how to date your daughters, what to avoid, topics to discuss, and even has a list to get us started of the «Top 15 Daddy Dates.»

This is, like most of what Nietzsche wrote, unfair: Eliot was neither a «little bluestocking» nor a «moral fanatic,» and moreover drew almost all of her ideas about how to sustain Christian morality without Christian belief from reading Germans like Strauss and Feuerbach.

Millions of women are mutilated when they reach puberty, many little girls have lost their faces and eyes on their way to school just because they are trying to learn how to read and write, the minimal education, yet they are still punished.

What we realize in reading «Ash Wednesday,» however, is how little that matters.

I read this book recently but it's influenced how I see the world, almost every day, little altars everywhere.

When reading Roe and Doe, it is surprising to see how little they have to say about protecting women and how much they have to do with protecting doctors.

This is the little piece of paper hanging on your wall, or stuffed in your bookshelf at home that tells you how rich you really are, and most of us have never even bothered to read it.

@ Doris: «If you read Carl Sagan's last book, The Pale Blue Dot, or read Steven Pinker's book, How the Mind Works, what scientists will tell you is this... in fact, I'll give you a little quote from Steven Pinker out of How the Mind Works.

You may ask me how I came to this new insight, for truly I had never opened a book of religion nor even read a single page of the Bible, and the dogma of original sin is either entirely denied or forgotten by the Hebrews of to - day, so that I had thought so little about it that I doubt whether I ever knew its name.

In the training of clergymen, how little attention is devoted to the adequate presentation of the spirit of the Bible in the reading!

I read two articles yesterday about how little the Left and Right listen to each other.

But The Christian Century, one of the foremost Protestant magazines, said: «We wonder a little how recently he (the President) has read those three austere and humbling chapters from the Gospel according to Matthew.»

As we read the Reformers today it is astonishing how little this question occurs in their writings.

If people are so interested in knowing what Jesus would support or not, maybe we ought to read the bible a little more (well, a lot more) to know the how, what and why on Jesus» teaching, beliefs and results.

• You love the attention garnered from your knowledge of the Bible, but give little thought to how you have applied what you have read.

Reading your blog made me realize how very little I remember about that day, I basically had only remembered one lady wailing her head off.

I was really struggling about what to do for my little one's first birthday yesterday and I'm so happy I stumbled upon this.I definitely had a laugh reading how Camille has bested you (mine has lunged for ice cream and other baked goodies numerous times) and it's nice to hear someone share similar concerns.

I was reading it aloud to Toby and she wrote a little note about how great military spouses are (which was very sweet) and also congratulating us on our upcoming anniversary.

What a wonderful, inspiring read, Heidi, and a lovely little window into how you approach the site.

I have discovered the delicious simplicity of banana - ice cream (I know I am hopelessly late here) but OMG — I knew bananas were lovely and that they can be and do almost everything, but I was actually a little shocked how amazing the banana ice cream (read: ice cream made entirely our of frozen bananas) really is!

> If you are wondering how to read that last sentence, please refer to the little girl front left below.

It's fun to read a little more about the soup and how to make it more flavorful.

Do you know how annoying that little hot tub is that keeps getting in the way of me being able to read your post?

I had to have a read through the rest of your recipes on Breakfast, for me it is a typically light meal with boiled eggs (fresh from the chickens or ducks) with a little toast but it is amazing to see how much effort some go to cook breakfast.

In the previous paragraphs you read how versatile these little treats can be.

I've recently read a little more about how they started their winery, I found it quite fascinating that Ernest and Julio were out traveling the country selling grapes from the family vineyards, they always wanted to start a winery so they borrowed money from family, rented books on how to make wine and wala, their dream was born.

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Ultimately, in reading the article from Food & Beverage, I think it's great that culinary educators are perhaps going a little too far in how much they want to teach the next generation of chefs.

I added the teaspoon of vanilla from the comments I read and they turned out amazing... my wife however thinks they are too thick... how much more milk should I add to make them a little less thick but not runny???