Sentences with phrase «people value books»

Yet this is exactly how most people value books.

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Generally speaking, people actively share books if: it makes them look smart, successful, or high status; they took a lot of value from the book; in some way they associate the book with an identity they desire and want to broadcast to the world.

I shared in my book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work, five ways that people could show others they're valued — through words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time, tangible gifts and physical touch.

Employing 43,000 people around the world, including 20,000 in Britain, Carillion has been fighting for survival since July, when it revealed it was losing cash on projects and had written down the value of its contract book by 845 million pounds.

I'm doing it because I want to give value to people first, so that if I ever need something in the future, I want to guilt all of you into buying my book.

«In 1934 a company's book value and its market value were highly related, because that's how people thought about valuation,» he says.

I was instantly taken away to the slums of India when I first opened the book and read about a volunteer who felt powerless to do anything to help the people he was serving and how he managed to create something of lasting value for people who need medical care.

Beyond knowing the value they place on books written by other people, one of the biggest upsides for us is that many of the Investment Masters have also put those same ideas into one of more of their own books.

So, here are those five meaningful thoughts that Guy writes about in his book, which I believe serve a great learning for most people aspiring to find a greater meaning in life and become better as value investors.

i challenge any christian to show that Humanism, a modern, atheistic ethical system, doesn't hold better values than the bible, a book written when people thought the earth was flat.

While the more educated may smirk about such articles, there is a lot of value in helping people analyze and understand the book upon which they place their beliefs, especially when it becomes legislation and policy that affects people outside the religious bubble.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

159:4.4 «Many of these books were not written by the persons whose names they bear, but that in no way detracts from the value of the truths which they contain.

In his book The Neoconservatives (1979), Peter Steinfels described those on our side of the barricades as «counterintellectuals,» people who move in the intellectual world but who do not share that world's dominant sense of alienation and estrangement from the ideas, values, and institutions of the middle - American majority.

People would buy Bibles and spirit - enhancing trips to Yosemite instead of Monica's Story and trips to Disney World, but we would still value high - speed presses for the books and airplanes for the trips.

I guess Mr King doesn't value the very people who helped made him rich by buying his books.

Colson and Eckerd devote the bulk of their book, the fourth part, to suggesting ways in which the values by which people choose to live can be transformed.

Once this hurdle is over, the reader will find this an excellent book which explores, with great sensitivity and understanding, the question of what it means to be human, why each human person has great value and importance, and why the frail and gravely ill matter just as much as the rest of us.

Understanding and appreciation of the shared beliefs and values of those whom Muslims call the People of the Book is increasingly important in the post — September 11 world.

In other books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, «no value is so uniformly interpreted and emphasized as the value of the land in its relation to [the people

In this interview, Kwasniewski explains the vision behind the book, which recovers key sources of the Church's anti-liberal tradition, at a time when more people are questioning the foundations and value of liberalism.

They see the success of The Technique in converting people to its value system, and so they adopt these techniques — especially television, radio, and books — to convert people to their own religious views.

The New York Times best - selling book Freakonomics was a hit because it was written by «a rogue economist exploring the hidden side of everything» and Peter Thiel, in his best - selling book Zero to One, says «successful people find value in unexpected places.»

It is a thoughtful book in which Smith reflects on the problems raised by the study of the religious thought and practices of the people of Asia, problems of historical method, of literary criticism, of language, of social organization, and of the values and standards by which men guide their lives.

They see The Technique's success in converting people to its value system, so they apprehend the techniques — especially television, radio and books — and use them to convert people to their own religious views.

No book, person or group of people are perfect, but that does not mean they have no value.

Our flocks wander off as we shepherds stand by bewildered by the books people are choosing to read, the films they are lauding and the values they are embracing in the name of Christ.

What is wrong with trying to follow a book that in the end is trying to have people live by values and love one another?

The postmodern ecological worldview of this book finds intrinsic value in all those entities it calls individual entities, from protons to people.

Now, your excellent book will assist all who wonder about its value to share your wisdom and the positive experiences of many people.

That is the value of putting it on the statute book, that people know for sure that, unless the next prime minister repeals it, it will take place.»

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In my late 20s I made a conscious choice to seek out people who supported what I value, like being in the outdoors, taking fun group - exercise classes, eating healthy food, traveling, being silly, having meaningful conversations about relationships, growing old, reading good books, parenting, and all the other things that fill me up.

Ronnie is a public speaker and teacher, a published author of multiple books, hosts of two popular podcasts, a transformation and peak performance coach, and above all else a man who deeply values life and has devoted his life to uplifting and inspiring the lives of as many people as he can reach through his mission, his work, and his message.

The lovely ladies at Jurlique Perth have a special offer of a free 100 ml Moisture Replenishing Mask valued at $ 80 for the first 20 people booking a 60 or 90 minute facial.

Because I'm clear on this money value, I have no problem spending money on personal development books, classes and conferences to improve myself as a person and learn the necessary skills to make a difference in my life and the lives of the people I work with.

When my first book did SO well straight away, getting picked up in Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, Barnes and Noble, and over 400 stores worldwide, it just made me realize that though the success was amazing and so exciting, it was a moment in time to savor, rather than something that defines me as a person and my value.

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However, we would like to reassure people that we would not hold a speed dating event without a good number of both men and women booked in, otherwise it would not be a good event or value for money.

His own work has shown that over time, the initial traits that people find attractive in others — like looks, charisma, and success — lose a lot of their value while the things that make people unique — like their favorite book or movies — become more important.

The value is in the amount of different people they have on their books and the tools they offer in order for you to make easy contact.

Books help to mould a persons character, form his moral values.

The article focuses on the fact that Card's views seem in many ways to be the polar opposite of what the book is about and stresses the parallels between Ender's experience and the experience of young gay people everywhere of having to reconcile the way they are with the values and beliefs of their loved ones.

We tend to love classic movies, books, and songs — unless they seem hopelessly outmoded, the irredeemable products of an earlier era not yet caught up with our imagined progressive values (which is related to why people snicker when they go to old movies).

The Classics in Schools initiative is a fantastic opportunity to continue with what has always been our mission - to get remarkable, good - value books into the hands of as many people as possible.

The study by online bookseller Book People surveyed 1,100 parents with children under the age of 12, asking them how highly they place educational value when choosing gifts for their children, as well as which items they believe aid child development in a number of areas.

Visit the Historic England online bookshop for books that help people to understand, value, care for and enjoy the historic environment.

Citing a book written by Bob Peterson, president of the Milwaukee teachers union, Lewis said, «People always talk about how that there's no politics and values in math.

Wagner's argument in his book «Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World» is that our K - 12 and college tracks are not consistently «adding the value and teaching the skills that matter most in the marketplace.»

As this book clearly shows, disrupting the pipeline from end to end will require a complete reorientation of our values, systems, and practices, so as to construct new educational rights and opportunities for young people.