Sentences with phrase «things than an author»

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To John Warrillow, the founder of the Sellability Score and author of the book Built to Sell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a company.

«The only thing that there's agreement on is that it's a lot more challenging than the old math,» says Dan Yergin, the vice chairman of information and analytics company IHS and the author of the essential oil - history tomes The Prize and The Quest.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»

I can see how one can look at this idea and look at the following examples in Hebrews 11 as «Because they were sure they would get this reward, they did this thing» but as the author points out in verse 39 that they didn't get what they imagined they would, so if we understand faith as «being sure» it would turn out that it is «being sure» of something and being totally wrong — instead it makes more sense to understand Hebrews 11:1 as saying that «faith is a realization (or actualization)» of our hopes, a realization that the author points out is greater than we could expect and be sure in.

One thing, however, we can say with reasonable certainty is that the large body of sayings which he gives in common with Luke must have conic down to both, whether in writing or by word of mouth, from a period much earlier than the date at which the two authors wrote.2 It brings us that much nearer to the fountainhead.

I trust that the authors of this pledge and the editors of First Things can do much better than this.

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.

The authors of the chapters in this book come from all sorts of church backgrounds and traditions, but rather than focus on the things that separate them from each other or from people who practice other forms of church, this book focuses on the things that unify us and bring us together in Christ.

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.

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).

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.»

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.)

You can see the real danger perhaps most clearly when the Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, universally admired author of The God of Small Things, writes in the Manchester Guardian that Osama bin Laden «is nothing more than the American President's dark doppelgänger.

Other than that, the only other thing I can suggest would be to check out the post by the original author of the recipe: http://cookiesandcups.com/my-favorite-vanilla-cupcakes/.

One of the things the author talks about are migraine triggers (he has a much broader definition of migraine than I'm used to).

The author seems to be implying that the hospital is doing some sort of bad thing to the multips that is causing them to bleed and retain at higher rates than they would have if they had stayed home.

«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.

«When we anticipate that something is going to happen, and then it actually happens, we immediately start to find ways of twisting our perceptions to make ourselves feel better about it, more so than we were doing when we merely anticipated this new thing,» says study author Kristin Laurin of The University of British Columbia.

BRAN FERREN: The triumph of the Internet was that the authors were smart enough to work only on the lowest level protocols rather than anticipate things higher up the food chain, which permitted interoperability to an extent that no one ever expected.

«As the authors point out, parasitoid venoms act in a much subtler, more fine - tuned manner than the better known predatory or defensive venoms of things like snakes, spiders or cone shells.»

«They're ancient; we are watching things that happened more than 1,000 years ago,» the authors wrote.

«We suggest that the use of tools drove the evolution of language, and it seems likely that «words» for things other than current emotional states would have been very useful for learning to knap,» lead author Thomas Morgan told Discovery News.

According to the op - ed author's calculations, more trees lead to more particles and more ozone, and the combination ** generally ** makes things warmer because warming from the heat - trapping ozone is bigger than the slight (and very uncertain) cooling from the particles.

«The cool thing about our results is that we found that when you squeeze water into the nanotube, protons move through that water even faster than through normal (bulk) water,» said Aleksandr Noy, an LLNL biophysicist and a lead author of the paper.

Susan Albers, author of Eating Mindfully, suggests that in our fast - paced world, attentiveness to the things you «have to do takes on a greater priority than what is going on internally.»

And the movie does have its flaws: for such a supposedly important author, Eiffel's work sounds like it has more in common with Oprah's Book Club than Saul Bellow, those two boobs from the Sonic Drive - Thru commercials are inexplicably cast as co-workers (perhaps to contribute to the entire atmosphere of unreality), and the whole thing plays like Charlie Kaufman Lite... blurring the lines of reality and unreality, but without the messy cynicism.

Granted, «Saving Mr. Banks» seems to be more about «Mary Poppins» author P.L. Travers than the animation pioneer, but this might be the closest thing we ever get to a proper Walt Disney biopic.

The good thing is that it will be much cheaper to buy or subscribe to licenses for authoring software than it will be to commission a specialist provider to develop your courses for you.

One thing that's very different about the Articulate 360 subscription over the Captivate subscription is that you get more than just the core e-learning authoring tool.

So we asked more than 1,000 professional publicists the most important thing they think every indie author should do when publishing a book.

The single best thing you can do for yourself on Goodreads — other than joining the site and claiming your author profile — is to host book giveaways.

Things have changed quite a bit since then and, while inspiring stories of success still abound, the hard, ugly truth is that there are now more independent authors, and more books getting published on a daily basis than ever before, which further reduces the odds of any one book making it big.

> Map out your writing empire, including all the things you love to do > Start setting up and implementing the systems and structures you need to support your empire (including an author website, if you don't already have one) > Overhaul your writing life so you're aligned with and set up for the success you want to create > Get your nonfiction eBook written and published (at least one, but possibly more than one, if you're up for it) > Grow your following > Sell more books

Being a Self - published author is an admirable thing, and is respected, perhaps more than those who are under a well known publisher.

Also, some things I'd rather decide for myself what they look like, rather than the author telling me.

Based on a pick - and - choose menu of services that includes more than just editing — which right away is a departure from the standard, as too many «author services» companies require all or none expensive packages — the platform is delving into things like review services that will send out copies of an author's book to their channels, along with talks of translation (an ungodly expense for indie authors that can easily cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars per language) and audiobook services.

And lord knows the only thing better than selling your book to 10 people at the same time is getting your author five minutes with Matt Lauer.

In a brief interview the author comments on the book's structure: «There are little bits of connection between the five sections; but it's really going to be a bit like listening to a symphony in five movements or, if you like, an LP, an album, a CD in which the tracks are separate, but the whole thing adds up to more than the sum of its parts.»

As a reader, they have turned me off to more authors than any one other thing.

Indeed, our current size (8 Million Readers) has enabled us to do all these things better than we used to Books Butterfly is about connecting authors with readers.

Indie and Small - Press Authors are inundated with less - than honest offers of marketing services, but AMC delivers the real thing.

Interesting proposition that to the list of things we «have» to do as authors, we get to add seducing the reader to read more than the first 10 % of the book.

It's both inspirational and depressing to watch someone else sell more books than you are (I'm often in that position, with the crazy successful indie authors I hang out with)-- but that the most important thing is to keep writing, keep improving, keep putting out your best work, and keep finding ways for your audience to find you.

One thing I love about being an indie author is getting ten checks a month from my various platforms, every single month, rather than the four per book advance spread over 2 years.

Other than Hugh Howey / Bella Andre / Colleen Hoover retaining e-book rights, that is... A time - limited option makes sense to me — publishers, use these rights within 3 years or the author gets them back, kind of thing.

Unfortunately, I've also been in contact with a number of authors who had less than stellar things to say about the company, and at a certain point I realized that they weren't going to hold up with a good review.

When authors work with paid editors, one of the smartest things they do is pre-clean their manuscripts every way possible, so that the editor they pay is working at a higher level than easily fixed typos and misspellings.

Best thing I can tell you is to have fun looking at what everyone else is doing... especially YA fiction authors... and you'll start getting ideas... to do it YOUR way... but building social media numbers by simply following other people... can be easier for a fiction author than spending too much time writing blog articles just to try and build a following.