Sentences with phrase «thing about being the author»

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.