Sentences with phrase «than reading a book about»

Lynch's academic habit of writing often leaves non-specialists, for whom the book is clearly intended, feeling that we would do better to live in our world and ponder it, rather than read a book about how we know.

Many probably feel that they «did» Shakespeare to death during their school years and can think of few things less appealing than reading a book about him on their own time - let alone paying good money to buy it!

Free Books for Hobbies / Interests: There's nothing better than reading a book about a hobby that you already love!

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How about we agree that you just take my word for it (or read my book), rather than try to learn these prison leadership lessons in their natural setting?

I frequently speak about this when I lecture on college campuses, but even if you are not a full - time employee at a major company, internships will get you so much farther than any book you read or class you take.

My time with the Red Sox organization taught me more about sales challenges than any book I ever read on the topic.

This book taught me more about resilience than anything else I've read or any class I ever took.

Why It's Worth Reading: More than the other books in this collection, Influence is about sales negotiations.

Being able to talk about economic concepts with a bit more knowledge than we have, requires reading this book.

And you know, look, I had read a ton of books at that point but they were so... you read «Market Wizards» by Schwager, and then you read Peter Lynch, and then you read Jack Bogle, you've got three completely different... So I read Nick Murray, was the book that made... probably changed more about my investment philosophy than anything else.

If you read this one book you'll know enough to invest sensibly for retirement without getting ripped off by financial product salespeople, and you'll understand more about investing than 85 % of the general population.

Our reading of the results to date, coupled with the absence of any large liabilities to be booked in the end - of - year accounting period, would imply a deficit for 2010 - 11 of about $ 38.5 billion, about $ 7 billion lower than the deficit of $ 45.4 billion forecast in the October 2010 Update.

For a novel, it taught me more about the world than most nonfiction books I've read.

Neither light reading nor cheap (it's hard to find online for less than about $ 75), this book is the most thoughtful and objective analysis of the long - term returns on stocks, bonds, cash and inflation available anywhere, purged of the pom - pom waving and statistical biases that contaminate other books on the subject.

A simple read through a 3rd grade Biology text book educates one about evolution than the trash you just spewed.

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

You know better than to read blog posts about your book.

Those moments of corded pain and joy and helplessness and power revealed more to me about the Incarnation than any book I could have read.

Bootyfunk — The last book I read about Biblical error cited more examples than there are words in the Bible.

Sorry about the tangents, but it's always a great point in a post to quote the great Thoreau, I think he captures the heart of what I desire in all humanity: «A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.

If we read this as more than a book about spiders and pigs, we can detect here a vision that might be called Aristotelian.

Also, I'm not against reading books written by biblical scholars, I just started down this path because Jeremy stated that this is the best book about Jesus, rather than applying that attribute to the bible itself.

But one way to determine the value of a book is by how it helps us understand Jesus and inspires us to live like Jesus, and if this book did this for you better than reading Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, then by all means, stick to your guns and say this is the best book you have read about Jesus!

Having attended McCourt's reading, I can only conclude that the critical reception of Angela's Ashes says more about the expectations of «serious» Irish writing than about the book itself.

I don't know what your viewpoint is on someone being gay and a Christian, but let me suggest that you read his book before you talk about the «choice» Wesley Hill made to be gay (he didn't), or how his father was abusive or absent (he wasn't), or how Wesley should just «man up» and fall in love with a woman (he's tried), or get «cured» by reading the Bible and praying more (he probably reads the Bible and prays more than you or I).

erience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

It's my experience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

She is a bit vague here, but she puts forth some interesting ideas about how the Emergent Church might come to operate using the basic principles of network theory and crowd sourcing... which is interesting, but more detailed than I can handle in a single post — so read the book!

The writer of a devotional book I read more than forty years ago — a book whose author and title I have forgotten — made an interesting point about the Holy Spirit.

Andy — What about those of us, like myself, who have read her books (as I have, a couple of times) and still find them lacking, or less than admirable?

Itâ $ ™ s hot out, and I can think of nothing better to do than sitting on my porch with some friends, overlooking the beautiful Kennebacasis River, smoking my pipe filled with the new Executive Blend tobacco my brother sent me, drinking a fine red wine (preferably Syrah), and talking about the latest books weâ $ ™ ve read, movies weâ $ ™ ve seen, jokes weâ $ ™ ve heard, or thoughts weâ $ ™ ve had.

More than that, if a reader wants to know about the stories of Genesis, again he should turn to Walter Schenck and read his book First voices, which also received outstanding praises.

He wrote, «From the most essential and most fundamental about oneself to every single thing or affair in the world, even the meaning of one word or half a word, everything should be investigated to the utmost, and none of it is unworthy of attention... There is no other way to investigate principle to the utmost than to pay attention to everything in our daily reading of books and handling of affairs....

life is about right and worg thats wart i know about the bible you have to have fath in this turth or you will never understeand how the bible has the guid line for how thay can be peace in the world if you will really spead a lot of time reading the bible than look up on google or in some other books to many for me to name im taking about none chritin books at that and comeper them you will find that there is a lot of stuff that proves the bible as being right i wise i kone how to say it better to but i cant sorry but wan you pray just ast if there is a god make your self real to me other wise i have to hard a time beliveing somepen i cant see or hear and he will make his safe real and than you just sheek him to show you ware to go from there

I'll bet you just believe what your preacher tells you rather than reading books and recorded studies about evolutionary biology.

But each time I read books, blogs or articles about the topic (granted that I am more inclined to read stuff written by people who are really serious about their relationship with God rather than people complaining merely because they can — and thereâ $ ™ s plenty of them), I come to one conclusion: The complaints are mostly about what the church has become (or how people perceive the church to be) than against the church itself.

It's not about «I'm better than you, so you should die» — it's about «I'm different and unique and so are you and I embrace that» — isn't that was Jesus» message really was??? Believe me, I have read myriad books on religion, and not just Christianity.

But a body of newer work on the apostle — including, perhaps, as Hurtado notes, Wright's own new books (which I haven't had the chance to finish reading yet)-- reveals that Paul may, after all, look less like a liberal Westerner than the New Perspective has taught us to think and more like a Christ - haunted figure whose radical social practices arose directly from his pioneering, innovative thinking about the identity and achievement of Jesus Christ.

Hippy, yeah I get what you're saying about not learning anything new in school, and not much from the teachers you had, I also read constantly and learned more through my books and travel than in classrooms.

But the thing about staycations is, they allow you to really live, and put responsibility aside when other things come up — things like invitations for patio drinks at 2pm / 4pm / 8 pm on a beautiful summer day, a sporadic trip to the park to sit and read a good book, sleeping in way later than necessary, random backyard / living room yoga, or quick little road trips to visit friends that you just don't see often enough.

Since then, I've used Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone as reference and reassurance, and bandied it about as proof to my younger colleagues that, when it comes to information, books are way better than the goddamned internet... Read the rest of Bon Appétit food director Carla Lalli Music's ode to this vegetarian «treasure trove.»

Just read an article about how most cookbooks are recipe books rather than guides to home economics.

I just read a great book about supplements and how bad they can actually be for you, particularly antioxidants, as they behave differently in a petri dish than in our bodies.

I myself know little about the right bait, and I am reluctant to write more than I know by experience; but I have been told on good authority, and have read in trustworthy books, that the minnow and the red worm are good baits for carp throughout the year.

I do not have the figures in front of me, but I expect that golfers buy more instruction books, chuckle at more golf whimsy, read more fiction about their sport and sympathize more fully with accounts of the agonies of their brethren of the links than any other athletes.

It seemed as though the books I was reading and the people I spoke to focused on that too, rather than talking much about what came afterwards.

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a child virtually devour good literature and know that you have taught her to read and helped her to discover the pleasure of reading books... or to hear another child begging you to listen to her trying to read on her own... or another tell you about his observations and discoveries out in the garden... to see your children enjoying drawing, writing poems and doing spontaneous narrations about what they have learnt.

I really had no knowledge about breastfeeding, other than what I had previously read online or in books.

For those commenters who were asking about books to read on early (er) potty learning (i.e., not potty learning from birth, usually called Elimination Communication, but earlier than is usually done today in North America and Britain) I recommend Jill M. Lekovic's «Diaper - Free Before 3»: http://www.diaperfreebefore3.com/excerpt.html She can be a little intimidating (if I remember correctly her chapter on «later» potty learning covers starting after 6 - 9 months, which could freak many people out, I know), but her methods are gentle, respectful (of child and parent) and quite Montessori in many respects (going back to Hedra's comments above).

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.