Sentences with phrase «listening to books rather»

Since I have started listening to books rather than just plain ole reading them, I'm able to «read» more each month.

The advantage to listening to books rather than reading (my second recommendation) is that it allows you to get into your favorite sleeping position and close your eyes.

I preferred listening to the book rather than reading it in ebook because Johnny and Sean tend to share a lot and go off on (super interesting) tangents when it comes to talking shop.

I'm glad I listened to the book rather than reading it because I would have been tempted to skip over some of the more technical sections that turned out to be integral to the story.

I actually listened to the book rather than read it — I was driving home after Thanksgiving (I highly recommend the audiobook from Hachette), and for once in my life I wanted I - 40 to stretch a little bit longer so I could keep listening from behind the wheel.

Historically, audiobooks (aka «recorded books» or «books on tape») have provided a format for those who prefer to listen to their books rather than read them.

Not exact matches

Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors — large and small — should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.»

Unfortuanately, many lunatic Christians in the US are blindly follow a book, rather than listen to their hearts and think with their brains.

And if your effective recruiting tactic is using fear then obviously you are only getting sheep who do not want to think for themselves but would rather listen to the word of a two thousand year old book that was written by man.

Some of us actually read the Book rather than listening to nutjobs like this guy.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

Serve a snack and plan a quiet activity, such as listening to soothing music, looking at books, or resting on a blanket on the sofa (rather than in bed, which has a strong sleep association).

Your little one will love listening to you read them a book or singing songs (don't worry if you're more than cat wailer rather than X Factor winner they «ll adore it anyway).

Whether you take a class, read an Adlerian parenting book, watch a webinar series or listen to a podcast... parents need to learn about new ways of dealing with their children if they are to raise children who are co-operative rather than obedient or domineering.

I am so glad I decided to listen to my baby rather than a bunch of sleep training books.

In the meantime, you can read or rather listen to the audio book of his previous best seller, The World is Flat, free.

He says that lots of scientists read good books, go to art galleries, write poetry and listen to concerts, whereas most art graduates don't understand cell biology, and are rather proud of it.

Sourcing brands is interesting, I do not attend a ton of trade shows, rather, I look for likeminded brands on Instagram - using hashtags like #ethicalfashion and referencing resources such as Safia Minney's book Slow Fashion, ethical fashion blogs, and listening to Kestrel Jenkins» podcast Conscious Chatter.

im a free minded person who views are open to the horizon of the world and the food for thought, im a non judgmental zone an open book if you will but rather listen to the sweet voice of some one else life im outgoing warm and very passionate fun and live to take care of me and do what is needed...

On the train, a rather perky lady has been listening in on her phone call and consequentially insists the self - help book she's reading is all Nancy needs to sort her life out.

I ask them to open their English books, but they'd rather turn off the classroom lights, close their eyes, and listen for far - off jingling noises.

An abelist perspective asserts that it is preferable for a child to read print rather than Braille, walk rather than use a wheelchair, spell independently rather than use a spell - checker, read written text rather than listen to a book on tape, and be friends with nondisabled kids rather than with other disabled kids.

I once asked book industry maven Mike Shatzkin about my rather eccentric views on all this, and he told me in an ensuing email: «You may very well be right about the differences between paper - reading and screen - reading, in trerms of brain chemistry, but just as nobody in the past heeded the calls that radiation and cancer might impact cellphone use, do you think makers of device readers will listen to you or even care if you are right?»

In other words, would you rather listen to your gut and your muse and write whatever you want without thinking of things like readership or market variables or whether anybody is going to read and like your book?

I'd rather give someone an extra code to try the earlier book first than to have them try to listen from the middle and not understand what's happening.

If there was ever a book that deserved to be listened to rather than read, The New Policeman is it.

I think memoirs are the best books to be listened to on audiobook because it feels (or rather, sounds) like a friend relating a story to you.

When you factor in how many people read news, watch video and play games we actually have a direct route to Groups 2 and Groups 3 if we just got beyond our disregard of mobiles and got serious about reaching potential readers on mobile platforms and convincing them to read (our books) rather than watch or play, or listen.

Rather than feeling like an integrated device targeted at reading books and viewing and listening to media, it feels like a garden - variety tablet with a number of useful reading apps on it.

As an avid Kindle reader, who wants an e-reader that is light in weight (and always uses a leather cover when reading), who doesn't feel the need to take notes, make annotations and play games on the Kindle, who prefers to read rather than listen to audio text and who searches and downloads books from the web, then the Kindle 4 sounds absolutely perfect for me.

These have been left out of Amazon's latest ereader — judged of little use in a single - function device — but some people will appreciate being able to listen to music and load books onto a microSD card rather than forever relying on the 2 GB internal memory.

Being one of the fine users of the Kindle device, there are instances when you wish to listen to all your favorite collection of books rather than just having the reading experience.

Same for joggers and walkers and others who would rather listen to their books when they need to pay special attention to their surroundings.

Or, in the case of indie books, I'd rather buy a book that sounds amazing and gets pretty good reviews than listen to review requests all day.

Some people prefer to get their information by sitting back and listening rather than reading a book.

Bring a selection of your book and music collections out to encourage you to read or listen rather than automatically reaching for the remote at the end of the day...

If Will is trying to make the point that Crichton's book, while fiction, is nonetheless worth listening to because it draws on real scientific knowledge, it is a rather weak point, since as we have discussed elsewhere, State of Fear is notable mostly for what it leaves out.

Our best tools were not super-sophisticated digital targeting — the supposed Jedi mind - bending superpowers that Carole thinks we have — but 1) learning from books thousands of years old about how to manage complex operations and 2) listening hard to the public rather than the pundits.

If you really want to get into real estate investing, rather than gambling and speculation I suggest you start listening to the BiggerPockets podcast and reading the BiggerPockets Publishing books.