The great
thing about being the author is that you are in charge of the project, not the testers, and in the end its our choice what suggestions we follow.
I suppose that's one of the great (if scary)
things about being an author — putting yourself «out there» to interact with readers.
This is the great
thing about being an author - entrepreneur.
One of the hardest
things about being an author — and that's not discriminating against traditionally published, indie published, or self - published — is reaching an audience of readers with your work, and book fans have spent the last three days sharing the love for Readioactive.
Not exact matches
Daniel Pink,
author of «Drive: The Surprising Truth
About What Motivates Us,» has found that we
're motivated by three
things:
It
's good to give employees these options because «one
thing you don't want to do
is require people to report only to their supervisors, because unfortunately that may
be the person who they have a complaint
about,» says Lisa Guerin, an attorney specializing in employment law and the
author of The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations: How to Handle Employee Complaints & Problems.
«When people
are surprised on Twitter, they
are going to tweet
about it and that
's how
things can spread very quickly,» says O'Neil
's boss, Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likable Local, and
author of Likeable Business (McGraw - Hill, 2012).
The difficult choices at the poker table
are akin to
author Ben Horowitz's classic example of executive decision - making in «The Hard
Thing About Hard
Things.»
As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently
authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one
thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.
Steve Bass writes PC World's monthly «Hassle - Free PC» column and
is the
author of «PC Annoyances, 2nd Edition: How to Fix the Most Annoying
Things About Your Personal Computer,» available from O'Reilly.
«The
thing that
is the most noticeable
about Stormy, especially on Twitter,
is that the usual methods that the internet has of shaming and mocking have little to no effect on her,» Brian Watson,
author of «Annals of Pornographie, How Porn Became Bad,» tells Ad Age.
Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself
about the
author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen
are as truly enlightened
about life, death and the nature of
things as they self - satisfyingly claim to
be doctored in religion?
Another interesting
thing to consider
is, do you think the
authors believed in the God they
were writing
about?
However, I
was definitely confused and also uninformed
about the implications or logical conclusions of Calvinism, such as the fact that if Calvinism
is true, God
is the
author of sin, since He, according to Calvin, predetermined every single little
thing that has ever happened in history, including the sins of every man, including Adam!
The
thing that interests me
about this article as that the
author is expecting someone to fix the church for Millenials so they will return.
That
's one of the
things I
was pointing out to someone who read a book on necromancy (long island medium) and
was totally sold on everything the
author wrote and
was now at «peace» from reading
about the endless cycles of death — i.e. soul coming back as such... dying then coming back again as another.
All of these
things were going to happen no matter what, but God took the blame for all of them by inspiring the biblical
authors to write what they did
about Him.
If understanding, the thought
is that the bible
authors were encouraged to write these
things about God but that they
're not true.
Great stuff Jeremy - your book «Skeleton Church» changed my perspective on a lot of
things about the church - I
am an aspiring
author hoping to
be published someday
As
author Penny Lernoux has noted: «When the Alliance for Progress
was finally buried at the end of the 1960s,
about the only
thing that the Latin American countries had to show for it
was an enormous foreign debt: 19.3 billion dollars compared to 8.8 billion in 1961 when the program
was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 211).
Maybe the Holy Spirit
is at work around the world to bring multiple
authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas
about similar
things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it
is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us
were listening to what the Spirit has
been whispering to minds all over the world.
The
author is right
about one
thing that
is required besides faith and that
is humility.
Hey, This
is the second ridiculous
thing I've heard
about this
author, so I wanted to make something clear.
One other nice
thing about being a published
author,
is that it proves that you
are an expert in your field, which gets you invited to speak at conferences, which increases your visibility and platform in the fishing world, which then allows you to get more books published.
By the way, I
'm the
author of the book 300 Times 0 who studied for 16 years to
be an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi so I would hope I know a
thing or two
about Judaism.
A comparatively small number of these units of narrative can properly
be described as «tales»
about things that Jesus did, in which our
authors spread themselves in picturesque or dramatic detail.
Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation by Teresa L. Fry Brown (a couple others that I haven't read yet but have heard great
things about from this
author are: Can a Sistah Get a Little Help?
The
author closes with a chapter stating that while he does not judge or condemn those who see
things differently that he does, he hopes such people will not condemn him either, but will allow him (and others) to face the difficult questions
about church that need to
be asked.
One of my favorite
authors, C. S. Lewis, says that the most important
thing about Jesus
is that He
is God.
The
author doesn't know the first
thing about hermeneutics or exegesis, which
is basically a fancy way of saying she doesn't know how to read and interpret
things in context.
One of the
things I found most fascinating
about this book,
is the connection it made with the
author's blog.
I have no idea how the
author of Fables feels
about abortion, and that
's a good
thing.
And as I reflect on whether or not it
's worth all of this work, I realize there
are a few
things about the writing life that they didn't tell me at the Young
Author's Conference:
«The history of American evangelicalism
is critical in understanding how many
things Clinton stands for that contradict the deeply held values of politically engaged evangelicals since the 1960s,» said Kristin Du Mez, a historian at Calvin College and the
author of a forthcoming book
about Hillary Clinton's faith.
The
author's understanding
is no less a proposal (the creative aspect)
about something than the interpreter's; but both, one no less than the other, also presume precisely to
be proposals
about some objective
thing (the receptive aspect).
St. Augustine's enduring conception of the two cities here receives contemporary development and application as outstanding
authors, most of whom
are also First
Things contributors, address economics, the academy, natural law, politics, and marriage: Robert Jenson on the Church's responsibility, Robert Louis Wilken on what Augustine really meant, Carl Braaten on natural law, George Weigel on not despairing
about the ambiguity of politics, Robert Benne on Christian engagement in economic enterprise, and Gilbert Meilaender on the virtue of marriage.
Part of the hermeneutical problem
is what to do
about the inevitable differences between the
author's and the interpreter's proposals
about the same
thing (see, e.g., SCHTE, especially 40f.).
I've read books
about the Bible that
were sort of attempts to explain it, but they can't say certain
things because you realize the
author might lose his or her job, so it ends up avoiding all the real questions everybody has.
The first
thing to notice
about the context of Hebrews 9:22
is that the
author is clearly contrasting the sacrificial system of the Mosaic Law with what Jesus accomplished in His death on the cross.
Some views say that the Bible
is full of errors and exaggerations so that the
things it describes didn't really happen, while other views hold that the violent events might have happened as described but God did not command them to do it nor did He inspire the biblical
authors to write
about these events as they did.
They
are knowingly attempting to inject their religious world view on everyone and anyone because they believe they know how best to live and don't give a rat
's ass
about anyone elses freedoms or rights, but if you want to call that «doing their best» then you can take your message back to it
's authors, the vile disgusting
things, the wh.o.re of Babylon, the putrid decaying evil of Joseph Smith and shove it down his dead and crumbling corpse.
The sacred
authors wrote the four Gospels, selecting some
things from the many which had
been handed on by word of mouth or in writing, reducing some ofthem to a synthesis, explaining some
things in view of the situation of their churches and preserving the form of proclamation but always in such fashion that they told us the honest truth
about Jesus.
However, other
authors have voiced concerns
about consumption of artificial sweeteners, because they may promote an appetite for sweet
things, they harm bone and dental health, and their long term safety profile
is not precisely clear.55 However, the European Food Safety Agency recently concluded that aspartame, the most common artificial sweetener,
is safe at present consumption levels.56 The shift to milk consumption as sugar sweetened drink consumption falls might
be expected.
This
is what the
author and chef, Rick Tramonto, says
about his recipe: «This sandwich originated in New Orleans, along with so many other good
things to eat.
One of the
things the
author talks
about are migraine triggers (he has a much broader definition of migraine than I
'm used to).
I think it
was Jack Canfield (
author of all the Chicken Soup for the Soul books who got turned down 100
's of times before getting a small publisher and then going on to sell over 112 million books) who said it
's not what people say
about you but what you say to yourself when they say
things about you.
Before I get into my own thoughts
about why the video and Evan
are wrong — and they
are — economics professor Marina Adshade,
author of Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love, had a few
things to say on her Psychology Today blog:
The only surprising
thing about the study
is that the
authors are cheerfully ignorant
about the meaning of what they found.
In Mommy Guilt,
authors Julie Bort, Aviva Pflock, and Devra Renner report that yelling
is one of the
things moms feel most guilty
about.
You would
be amazed at what service projects and groups
are out there doing
things that you never knew
about — dolls and bears made up to
be the the weight of your baby (Molly Bears), stuffed animals made out of your baby's clothing and blankets, peer support and parent advocates waiting to help the newly bereaved, personalized jewelry makers (like My Forever Child), stone painters, heart sewers, pillow - making people (Heaven Born for miscarriage), memory - box makers,
authors (there
are books for almost every subject on this topic waiting to
be discovered), research and education groups, story - sharing sites, support groups, chat groups, blogs, Facebook groups, foot / hand print kits, music and funeral planning resources... Consider starting here before starting something new.