Sentences with phrase «spend a year reading»

I've spent years reading and learning about personal finance.

Though the book contains 365 daily readings, I didn't spend a year reading it.

Jennie Yabroff reported in Newsweek that «After A. J. Jacobs spent a year reading the Entire Encyclopedia Britannica for his book «The Know - It - All,» he figured he had the yearlong experiment thing down.

It was not until after I had spent years reading C.S. Lewis and Andrew Murray, giants of the intellectual and spiritual life, that I found Dallas Willard.

Im going to have to experiment on my own and spend a year reading nutrition papers and textbooks.

In a heart - breaking letter to her 8th grade students, Ruth Ann Dandrea wrote, «Here we spent the year reading books and emulating great writers, constructing leads that would make everyone want to read our work, developing a voice that would engage our readers, using our imaginations to make our work unique and important, and, most of all, being honest.

Both teachers and nonclassified personnel can apply for the superintendent's leadership seminar, a program in which teachers spend the year reading and analyzing leadership texts with Mr. Lin and a variety of senior staffers.

-LSB-...] I can see that I spent my year reading BL at JManga, test driving the DMG, both thanking and criticizing Apple computers, falling unexpectedly in love with Eikichi Onizuka, finally reading Loveless, -LSB-...]

I have spent years reading the the FI and FIRE forums.

I have spent years reading papers I have been pointed to that are supposed to support a point that doesn't.

When Sam came to us, and he presented us with this concept of a sustainable business model, I then spent a year reading up, and I went to hear great speakers like Amory Lovins, Paul Hawkins, Ray Anderson etc..

They haven't spent a year reading cases and digesting the substantive content of law,» says McCormack.

I've spent years reading end user license agreements, EULAs, looking for little gotchas or just trying to figure out what the agreement allows and doesn't allow.

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Before Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the country meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from union groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 employee surveys.

So how did these folks who spent their college years reading Chaucer or Plato end up becoming exceptional programmers?

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

I analyzed a year's worth of Hsieh's schedule (which he shares publicly with anyone who cares to read it) to learn where he spends his time.

I've spent several years listening to entrepreneurs pitch their deals and I've read more than my share of business plans.

A better - than - expected reading on GDP was accompanied by the weakest performance in consumer spending in nearly five years.

Before starting $ 19 - million Oil Changers, a California chain of 37 oil - and - filter - change centers, Larry Read spent more than a year on the road, talking to owners of independent «quick - change» shops from Salt Lake City to Daytona Beach, Fla..

«I got my first job out of college just over a year ago, and I've spent a lot of time reading finance materials.

Now Pfizer CEO Ian Read has to eat crow and prove to the market that his company can be great on its own, after pretty much spending the past two years saying it was a big deal or bust.

This inside look at the house the Forbes family built — the famous headquarters at 60 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, in fact — certainly reads as though its author spent the years since sharpening his knife.

This inside look at the house the Forbes family built reads as though its author spent years sharpening his knife.

While the holiday season can be a great time to spend with friends and family, it's also the time of year when identity theft is at it's... Read more

Also read: Chinese Attack on Bitcoin Core Doubtful Due to Asia's growing number of online shoppers, reports indicate that this year alone, the entire continent will spend a record $ 1 trillion,

I personally spent about a year reading everything I could on investing before I bought my first stock.

He / she has now spent about a year assembling an outstanding executive team and either confirming or changing the... Continue reading →

Educated at Princeton University with a law degree from Georgetown, Powell, known as Jay, spent many years in investment management — at Dillon Read and then at the Carlyle Group.

I can't tell you how many thousands of hours I have spent, over the years, thinking about, reading about, and talking about how to be a consistently successful investor; but I can tell you this: I'm still working at it.

Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd, or Petronas, reported a fourth - quarter net loss on Monday and announced spending cuts for the next few years, as the state oil company braces for a Continue Reading

200 + Podcasts, 100 + Articles, 20 + Books... In 11 Bullet Points — Life Learning 200 + Podcasts, 100 + Articles, 20 + Books... In 11 Bullet Points For the past 8 months, I have spent my time doing what I've wanted to do for years: listening to podcasts, reading books, and reading articles.

Businesses spent more on structures, up by an annualized 12.3 percent and the best reading in one year, with relatively solid growth for both equipment (up 4.7 percent) and intellectual property products (up 3.6 percent).

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg turns 30 years old today, and let's assume he's going to spend his birthday with the closest of his 500 million friends, spending some of his 31 billion dollars (to which he's probably added a few million since you started reading this sentence).

He's a cradle Catholic that lapsed for 20 + years, hooked up with some friends that hooked him on reading the KJV without practicing other than his own blend of christianity, but has spent the last 3 years back as a practicing Catholic (getting catechised by moi.

He's a cradle Catholic that lapsed for 20 + years, hooked up with some friends that hooked him on reading the KJV without practicing other than his own blend of christianity, but has spent the last 3 years back as a practicing Catholic (getting catechised by moi).

As part of my work over the last four years, I've spent a significant amount of time reading books in the Christian «marriage advice» genre: Real Marriage, His Needs, Her Needs, Love & Respect.

If you spent 40 years being a believer, I have to say I can't imagine what you did with the time if you didn't read any of these brilliant people and somehow managed to serve in any ministry yet never experience Christ in your midst.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

I've spent more than 10 years of my life now processing through my faith, thinking critically, reading widely and experiencing church life more broadly.

I have often thought how nice it would be to spend a year in Hawaii, sitting on the beaches and reading.

Since I had spent a good deal of the year reading Yoder I decided that I would write on him.

I've read the entire Bible and spent many years active in a church.

I myself have read the bible cover to cover several times in my life and attempted to cross reference nearly every line in the 30 years I spent as a Christian with a decade as a pastor.

(Proverbs 18:2) Let's do less airing of our opinions this year and spend that time reading, asking questions and having conversations.

I have read the Bible numerous times, in fact I spent the last 10 years study it, so part of the Bible does contain some historical entries, but sadly the majority contains what we refer as «lest probable events».

Nothing quite like spending an evening reading thorugh a year's worth of blogging life to make one realise two things:

The problem is that people who have spent years talking about grace, reading books on grace, and going to conferences on grace are suddenly faced with situations in which they need to be gracious and, instead, become... nasty.

Silverton Friends Church, for instance, (where my co-author John Pattison is a member) gathered a diverse group of its members and spent most of the past school year reading about the LGBT community and discussing how they would respond together to tensions about sexuality in their congregation and their denomination.

Since then I have spend well - nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval.