Sentences with phrase «thing an author thinks»

Adjusting a book price is often the last thing an author thinks of, but it's a great tool to keep in your book marketing tool box if your book sales seem to be lagging.

When it comes to getting the word out there about their book, the first thing authors think of is writing a press release.

Not exact matches

The author reminds us to keep thinking big, never be afraid to ask for things, and to not be intimidated when things don't go as planned.

Scott is a thought leader, futurist, speaker and author on the Internet of Things.

He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook «Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication» and «Thinking Things Over,» a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

The author of The Happiness Advantage and CEO of Good Think Inc., a research and consulting firm, points out that the common understanding that happiness as the last thing to happen after success achieved by working hard has the order all wrong.

Events are moving fast, but let's stop and think a moment, prompted by this major new TWS essay from Reuel Marc Gercht, former CIA guy in Turkey and prodigious commentator on things Middle - Eastern, and author of (2011) The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East.

Another interesting thing to consider is, do you think the authors believed in the God they were writing about?

I think all the author was saying was that it isn't «the great apostasy» or even mere self - indulgence (we want an in - church barista type thing) that is turning some people of faith — both young and old — away from corporate «traditional» gathering.

The author explained that he wanted to pick the most horrific thing he could think of, the killing of an innocent, so that we would understand what a huge thing God forgave and what God was enabling Mack to deal with and forgive.

I think of the book of Hebrews, where the author is intent to show that Jesus Christ is far superior to anything which was offered under the Mosaic Law, and after we have Jesus, to go back to such things is sheer folly.

I think the author points out some interesting things that open - minded people might consider when they think about their own beliefs and why they should care about what other people do in their own homes.

It well could be that the authors thought they were passing along the word of God but I don't think they actually were passing any such thing.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

If understanding, the thought is that the bible authors were encouraged to write these things about God but that they're not true.

The author picks out exactly the things that tempt us today — thinking too well of ourselves, showing partiality, kowtowing to wealth, talking too much — and warns against them.

or does our lives have more meaning than that?this author is seriously delusional if he thinks being spiritual is a cop out if anything its the closest thing to realty that we have.

Judging by a few things I read in this article, I don't think the author is very familiar with the subject first - hand, and comes across ill - informed.

You or I, if conservative, might think that such a thing undermines marriage, but, author Catherine Hakim insists not, that adultery should be retitled something like a «playfair» or an....

The authors of the book think things are going swimmingly for the «progressive» cause.

The whole thing rests upon one author — Michael Prescott's — highly selective excerpting and chopping up of a private [i.e., thinking out loud without clarifications] journal written when Rand was barely out of her teens, fresh from the blood bath of 1920s Soviet Russia — and still made it very clear that her read on the personalities of the observers showed that they were not appalled by Hickman's crime — she said there had been far worse, without the same spectacle of glee — but by his flamboyant and mocking defiance of society.

Despite the limping conclusion (he is writing for Commonweal, after all), Steinfels has nailed the mindlessness of a progressive insouciance that thinks it a good thing that, in the words of one author, younger Catholics «place a higher priority on being good Christians than they do on being good Catholics,» when «good Christian» is indistinguishable from the cultural liberalism promoted by, for instance, the National Catholic Reporter.

I read a little on it and a couple of authors seemed to think that it was referring to the things that Christians should do, particlulaly being gracious and forgiving to one another.

I've been in correspondence with the author --(we're fellow Arrested Development junkies, so we like to exchange favorite quotes over Twitter)-- and the first thing I told him after diving into the book was, «Don't take this the wrong way, man, but this book is WAY more interesting than I thought it would be.»

The contemplations of the author can be a bit rambling at times and sometimes seem to focus on random things like what Mary thought of Joseph's home and workshop, and what the house was like, did the workshop look out onto a busy road, was Joseph well known for his carpentry skills etc..

I read a book recently where the author argued the very thing you are saying and it made me think the same thing.

I don't think the author was cutting down on Jesus, but making us realize that Jesus lived a live just like us, he struggled with all the same human things we struggle with, and to some, this is a message that helps to lift the spirit.

I think the author is displaying the best of being Jewish — critical thinking, questioning why she does things rather than just accepting everything with no questioning (which is very anti-Jewish in my opinion and seems to be what you suggest.)

As an author for children I think I approach all the things I can't prove in much the same way.

You're only comeback to that was that you know Abe Lincoln was written as fiction because the author says so but refuse to understand that if we had the authors of the bible alive and could talk with us you'd probably find the same thing (obviously also as.sumption, but hey, if you think the authors wrote the bible as purely historical text, prove it).

These things are not by - products, epiphenomena, or projections, as no small number of capitalist as well as socialist authors today think.

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:

«Kids» fears tend to grow along with their imaginations and because older children can think of bad things happening to their parents or themselves, this sometimes leads to new or increased clinginess,» explains Dr. Eileen Kennedy - Moore, a psychologist and the author of «Smart Parenting for Smart Kids.»

10 Things Every Birthmother Wants Adoptive Parents To Know — what a birthmother thinks about, wishes for, and hopes for when placing their child for adoption by author and birth mom, Patricia Dischler.

For one thing, the author thinks she got off to a «late start» in training her children to be French - style eaters, because her girls were aged two and five at the time.

«I think one of the main things that we can take away from this is children are a really critical audience for environmental programs,» said lead author Hilary Boudet of Oregon State University's School of Public Policy.

«This might explain why people sometimes say things before they think,» said Avgusta Shestyuk, a senior researcher in UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and lead author of a paper reporting the results in the current issue of Nature Human Behavior.

«When most people think about cancer genetics, they think about single key mutations that foster tumor formation — very specific things like the BRCA genes,» said Joe R. Delaney, PhD, a fellow in the Clinical Translation program at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and lead author of the paper published February 15 in Nature Communications.

It depends how you think about what it's like to be a thing, says author Ian Bogost

«Our understanding of protein structure, the virus and the virus life cycle is allowing us to do things that we didn't think was possible even a few years ago,» says Gary Nabel, chief scientific officer at drugmaker Sanofi and an author on the Nature Medicine paper.

«It means there are more ways to manipulate through magnetic currents than we thought, and that's a good thing,» says Flatté, senior author and team leader on the paper published June 9 in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Professor Solan, co-lead author, said: «We are bombarded with negative images of the future, yet there are a lot of grass roots initiatives that are changing the way we think, what we do, and the way we do things.

This article is actually called the «Evolution of Minerals» and one of the things, as your rightly point out, that the article does is the author Robert Hazen suggests that, you know, we had thought of minerals for their timeless quality but actually they've been quite varied and diversified over time, just as life itself has, and that life has been the actor in this.

Lead author Matt Lamanna of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History added, «We jokingly call this thing the «chicken from hell,» and I think that's pretty appropriate.»

The authors say the most important takeaway from their study is that people should be aware of how physical forces can change the way we think about things.

«I think the most important thing is for all women to have a healthy diet,» says Mathews, lead author of the 2008 study.

This may involve distinguishing between the things we can change and those we can't, and choosing not to waste energy on things that are beyond our control,» says clinical psychologist and author of Change Your Thinking, Dr Sarah Edelman.

«I'm more likely to think my relationship is doomed the more I believe my partner needs that thing,» explains Matthew Lapierre, assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of Arizona, who authored the study with his former undergraduate student Meleah Lewis.

One of the things I really admire about David Gabe (cookbook author and cooking class instructor) is that he tests every single one of his recipes in a $ 30 blender just to make sure the recipes work (and even though I think he has a Vitamix).