Sentences with phrase «person writing friends»

My circle of live - and - in - person writing friends is just big enough to span... a card table.

Not exact matches

There are many classic books about writing effective copy, and «How to win friends and influence people» should be required reading for anyone who wants to improve their marketing chops.

«People whose friends write to them semi-publicly on Facebook experience decreases in loneliness,» Burke says.

«It is difficult to ask people to move away from family and friends to get a job, but it has been a reality of life for generations,» wrote one CEO.

Milano wrote that a friend suggested writing «me too» on social media «to give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem» of sexual harassment and assault.

These emails, bad websites, or links, could be sent from fake accounts that are able to mimic the writing style of people's friends so they look real.

«A person's name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language,» writes Dale Carnegie in his classic book «How to Win Friends and Influence People ``, and those words couldn't be truer.

The Women's March is an example of this, where a grandmother with an internet connection wrote a post that led her friends to start a Facebook event that eventually turned into millions of people marching in cities around the world.

«To our friends at Alphabet: we are partners, you are an important investor in Uber, and we share a deep belief in the power of technology to change people's lives for the better,» wrote Khosrowshahi.

«I always had great contempt for people who bitched and moaned about how «hard» writing was and how «blockage» was a constant and looming threat,» Wallace wrote to his friend Jonathan Franzen.

«TheFaceBook enables students to search for people at their school... look up friends of friends, network, and visualize their social network via photos,» Colleran wrote, stressing the opportunity for brands to target «18 - 24 verified college students.»

Wrote one reviewer: «Everyone at Bain is the type of person you'd want to be friends with and go hang out with on a Saturday night.»

It turned out the person wasn't, but she was a friend of Harding's and because the woman was familiar with Rogers» writing credits she connected him with Harding.

Tony wrote the first edition of Notes From a Friend in 1991, handing it out to thousands of people who needed to overcome their greatest challenges.

«To our friends at Alphabet: we are partners, you are an important investor in Uber, and we share a deep belief in the power of technology to change people's lives for the better,» wrote Khosrowshahi in a letter announcing the settlement.

All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends,» he wrote in the memo, which BuzzFeed published on its website.

The best accidental side effect of running a website and writing articles for Seeking Alpha is that it occasionally allows me to stumble into friends I haven't to in a while — the kind of people that you enjoyed being around, but then life happens, and for whatever reasons, things happen and you fall out of touch.

This is precisely why I wrote my paper for people in their 20s which I distribute to my college friends and others who hear about it in some way.

My friend Jason Brady wrote an entire book on this subject, called Income Investing, which is a great book for equity people who might not know a lot about bonds.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

«In total, we believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people — mostly in the U.S. — may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica by apps that they or their friends used,» Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer wrote in a blog post Wednesday.

In a 2014 news release announcing new restrictions to its developer policies, a Facebook executive wrote, «We've heard from people that they are often surprised when a friend shares their information with an app.»

Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people.

We had people write songs for the first time [and perform them for their lady - friends].

♦ A friend wrote, taking issue with my characterization of Rush Limbaugh as someone who has «made his career by denouncing people.»

• Traditional liberals, writes our friend Robert P. George, have promoted their views as a way that people holding conflicting comprehensive doctrines» «an integrated set of beliefs about the human good, human dignity, and human destiny»» can live together.

We go to church, we participate in leadership meetings to shape the conversations of our communities, we pray for our friends, we make meals, I write posts and articles and books about God, we wash our minivans, we set up the sprinkler for the neighbourhood kids and hand out freezies to hopeful hands, we go to work, we talk about the people we know.

But members of the FLDS Church are not as sheltered and out - of - the - loop as many people think, said Ken Driggs, a Georgia attorney has written extensively about the FLDS church and who counts many of its members as friends

Based on the bigotry that oozes out of every sentence you wrote, I think it is very safe to say that no gay person would ever want you as a friend.

I am not an expert at this, but am learning from people who are, such as my wife, and my friend Sam, who has written a great series of posts on this very subject.

They also write touchingly of friends with whom they have shared various adventures, and especially of young people with whom at different times they have shared their home and their lives.

I asked a friend, who is Catholic, why people make such a big deal out of the bible since it was written by men and not by a god.

I was speaking with a friend who has spent some time in the Contemporary Christian Music industry (they wouldn't want me to use their name here, but if you've spent any time listening to CCM, you'd be familiar with it) who let me in on a little secret: A lot of Christian songs aren't written by people who would claim to be Christian.

Now, Frogist... I «know» that you know me well enough by now, from the multi-tude of postings over the last year and a half with you, and... from looking up at what I wrote above, in terms of my cultural melting - pot group of friends, and by taking each person individually, no matter what their religion, etc...

«We wrote a ton and we played it for the label and friends of ours, people we respect,» Compton recalls.

He had been on the point of writing for some Christian friends of his a discourse on their common salvation when word reached him that such persons had appeared among them.

Here is what one couple wrote for their moments of recommitment; each of them said to the other: «With expectation and joy, I commit myself to you — to the person you are and are becoming; I commit myself to responsibility for my own growth as a person; I commit myself to us — to our growing together as «forever friends.»

I'll talk a big game about sharing life with fellow Christians, but then I'll avoid inviting friends over for dinner until the house is clean, or I'll write down other people's prayer requests without volunteering any of my own.

Now a gay journalist, Stephen Jimenez, has written The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, based on investigative interviews with over 100 people, including the convicted killers and friends of both the killers and the victim.

«After all,» I wrote to a friend, «we've been married almost four years now, under circumstances that most people would think pretty lousy and we have received wonderful gifts of companionship and love and comfort.

«The most eloquent defenders of the value of every human life are people like my friends Ryan Bomberger and Rebecca Kiessling, both of whom were conceived in rape,» Charmaine Yoest, president of the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, wrote in a post for National Review Online this week.

Adams has a dense, elliptical style that demands close attention (his friends no doubt caught his allusions more readily than we do, one hundred years later), and he writes of himself in the third person, which is a little distracting.

As you know, I've written about this topic and perhaps need to write more, since leaving «church» often results in a real struggle — a struggle to explain our actions to former «church» friends and perhaps to family, people who are determined that following Jesus means parking one's butt in a pew in a building that has a sign out front that says «church».

Traveling, finding inspiration in the world, staying active and healthy and having fun doing it, reading, sleeping enough, meeting new people, spending time with friends that bring me joy, writing, cooking new dishes, finally moving to a new apartment, turning stress into something productive, being intentional, standing up for my feelings.

Out of it, or out of those years I should say, I've developed a fairly different relationship with myself, one where the person before writing this blog post is like a long - ago friend I no longer know well.

Another person like my friend Shanna, whose gentle and wise voice is the reason why I return over and over to her blog, Food Loves Writing, from which I almost always leave feeling inspired, refreshed or determined to better myself as a person, and be a kinder soul to others.

Katy / Mercedes — I don't doubt that this has been written about many other places (see also: the dozens of comments here from people who said they learned the technique from a friend or grandmother), but I didn't look to see where because as I mentioned in an earlier comment (# 255), I figured it out on my own (and through the suggestion of a friend from college).

It's written in an engaging and straightforward way that's suitable for people new to plant based cooking (I'll happily gift this book to friends and family) but it's great for people who are familiar with this style of eating, too.

One of the best things about blogging is the people you meet who become lifelong friends; and when those friends are talented bakers, they write beautiful cookbooks and send a copy to you.

And yet... As my friend Tim wrote recently, the election can bring out the worst in people.