Sentences with phrase «once writing»

Keep in mind that I was once writing in a magazine about house plants.»

Once you write it down, no matter how traumatic it is or how much stress you receive from it, it becomes powerless on paper.

Warren Buffett once wrote this little gem of a statement in one of his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders years back: «It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

As John Donahoe, the chairman of PayPal, once wrote: «Without a constant barrage of work issues to respond to, I find that my mind calms down and my intuition begins to come alive.»

In fact, as Joe Biden once wrote, «You can beat it just like I did.

«We will not go into businesses where technology which is way over my head is crucial to the investment decision,» he once wrote.

Dostoevsky once wrote that a person could live in a square yard of space, as long as that person was free; but he couldn't possibly have meant at $ 589 a night???

If we've learned one thing about the TV business over the past year, it's that almost everything that was once written in stone is now up for grabs, including who is in control and what they see as their end goal.

But had Sony stuck to its guns and released the movie as planned, it would have made a strong statement about standing up for freedom instead of giving in to fear and threats as Ben Franklin once wrote, «Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.»

As Alan Cohen once wrote, «There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest.

It was, he once wrote, «the one movie that made me want to make movies.»

Andrei Tarkovsky once wrote that the meaning of cinema was «relating a person to the whole world.»

As the scholar Eric St. John once wrote, «There is, perhaps, no college decision that is more thought - provoking, gut wrenching and rest - of - your - life oriented — or disoriented — than the choice of a major.»

«I seriously doubt that I would have been as successful in my career (and happy in my personal life) if I hadn't always placed importance on my health and fitness,» Branson once wrote in a blog post.

Jim Rohn once wrote, «To really achieve your dreams, to really have your future plans pull you, your dreams must be vivid.»

Once you write everything down, start to prioritize what really matters, what you can delegate, what things you can't change and what to take action on right away.

'» His coach once wrote «K.I.S.S.» on O'Kelley's shoe as a reminder to «Keep it simple, stupid.»

But as George Orwell once wrote: «Whoever is winning at the moment will alway seem to be invincible.»

«Act with fortitude and honor,» Alexander Hamilton once wrote to a distraught friend in serious financial and legal trouble of the man's own making.

Unfortunately, overreliance on coffee can actually be a downside, as I once wrote in «7 Reasons Too Much Coffee Is Killing Your Career.»

President Thomas Jefferson once wrote, «Never spend your money before you have it.»

As the father of value investing, Benjamin Graham, once wrote, «The real money in investing will have to be made — as most of it has been in the past — not out of buying and selling, but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interest and dividends, and benefiting from their long - term increase in value.»

This point is so important that I once wrote an article on it called 7 Signs of a Shareholder - Friendly Management.

As Robert Frost once wrote, «nothing gold can stay,» and, with Amazon Prime, its growth is starting to slow.

As the liberal John Hobson (1858 - 1940) once wrote:

Zig Ziglar once wrote that if you can't close, you are just a brilliant conversationalist.

Bill Gates once wrote that being jealously protective of his time was an important lesson he'd learned from Buffett.

Yet, as the legendary Howard Marks once wrote: «Most great investments begin in discomfort... bargains are usually found among things that are controversial, that people are pessimistic about, and that have been performing badly of late.»

Gary Neilson once wrote in a Harvard Business Review paper that «a brilliant strategy, blockbuster product or breakthrough technology can put you on the competitive map, but only solid execution can keep you there.»

Still, as Warren Buffett once wrote, «It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.»

Gary Neilson once wrote in a Harvard Business Review paper that «a brilliant strategy, blockbuster product or breakthrough technology can -LSB-...]

I once wrote a letter to Mohnish Pabrai and told him I'd pay him to let me work for him (he once made a similar offer to Buffett, allegedly).

Once you write a great press release, post it up on your website and then push out your releases to one of the big newswires to get more coverage.

Once you write the article, target online versions of big newspaper and magazine publications for an extremely valuable inbound link.

Tony @ We Only Do This Once writes We Are All Experts — Many people have spent a ton of life energy in a quest to discover their passion.

The writer, Alan Alexander Milne, better known as AA Milne once wrote, «Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit.

John W. Campbell, the editor of Analog (formerly Astounding) Science Fiction, once wrote an editorial remarkable for the contrarian points he brought up (among other things, he came out against motherhood and for the man - eating shark).

Come on, John, you once wrote thoughtful pieces on fath.

A very wise man once wrote, «Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it» (Proverbs 22:6).

Richard Bach, another Bradbury devotee, who wrote Jonathon Livingston Sea Gull, once wrote me, «Once you follow Ray's comet, you follow it for life.»

«Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians,» he once wrote.

(«I have to add the last point explicitly,» he once wrote to his friend M. Solovine, «lest you think that, weakened by age, I have fallen into the hands of priests.»)

Philosopher Yves R. Simon once wrote: «Any regime, in order to work well or merely to survive, needs or may need the operation of principles distinct from, and opposed to, its own idea.»

It seems that Hoffman is the latest in a line of people who discovered that fame, fortune and success aren't all they're cracked up to be; that — as author Jack Higgins once wrote — «when you get to the top, there's nothing there».

Scalia, the most conservative of the activist Roberts court once wrote in Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith: «We have never held that an individual's religious beliefs excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State is free to regulate.»

In his trademark bizarre irony, Franz Kafka once wrote a letter to his betrothed imploring her to give up such obsessive correspondence with him, referring to a previous request in his last letter sent two hours earlier (Kafka 1987).

«It is not, somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.»

Because, as Walker Percy once wrote, «the noxious particles and the sadness of the old dying Western world, and him thinking: «Jesus, is this it?

J. R. R. Tolkien once wrote ruefully, «Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant.»

As a wise one once wrote, «Open your eyes that you may see».