Sentences with phrase «thought about being a writer»

The truth is I never thought about being a writer.

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At Canadian Business, we like to think our crew of merry writers and editors hovers closer to that 80 % cohort — but we're about to find out if that's really the case.

«This is one of those books that I've continuously thought about and quoted to people ever since I read it,» relates actor, writer, producer, and activist Naomi McDougall Jones.

Ferriss told us that he used to read passages about compassion by Buddhist writers and think, «OK, if you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving / kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.»

«The moment you think you know everything about your business is the moment you lose your competitive edge,» says Pat Flynn, a San Diego - based writer who focuses on online entrepreneurship.

< br / > This is especially important in news, where distribution is a huge challenge.Machine Learning: Snip uses machine learning to find the best content online, then < br / > offers it to writers and subsequently personalizes the content to users with < br / > additional machine learning technology.The Rise of the Millennial Generation: As opposed to previous generations, millennials never got used < br / > to reading print newspapers and expect an online - first news outlet — ideally, one < br / > which is smart, interactive and to the point.When asked about his greatest hope and vision for Snip over the < br / > next 12 to 18 months, Reichman laid out his thinking.

Based solely on the massive amount of ink and HTML being spilled about Vampire Weekend, you would think that most music writers feel like most people start playing music because...

Regardless of opinions on where Judas ended up... I think it's refreshing to see a writer talk about his faith (even subtly) on a platform like the top story of CNN.

This weekend (May 29), on what would be the 1412h birthday of one of the faith's greatest writers, we look at 15 of his quotes that can help you reshape how you think about Christianity.

Ideas, thoughts, as well as deeper emotional or «affective» states, are included in this category where the classical writers would place meditation, contemplation, and the various stages of «union with God» about which the mystics have given us reports.

It's simple: You don't get to say what marriage is or is not based upon the bible or the so - called word of god (whatever that is... think about that for a minute... unless you speak 1st century aramaic you have no idea what the original writers of the ficto - mythic texts you now presume as the word of god even means!)

The Gospel writers think they're talking about things that actually happened, like the resurrection If these things didn't happen, N.T. Wright claims, he's got other things to do with his life.

The Gospel writers think they're talking about things that actually happened.

the writers gained NO money and power from writing it... sorry... your argument is weak and baseless... and the 4 Gospels were written from about 15 to 30 years after Jesus... pretty ignorant to think it was 40 to 80..

What is incredibly annoying about this statement is that the writer seems to think he needs to point out being one of the «least religious» colleges is somehow «dubious».

«People tend to think that Stephen King is anti-religious because he is a horror writer, but that's completely mistaken,» says Zahl, a retired Episcopal priest who has written about King's religious sensibility for Christianity Today magazine.

The editor of the WQ, Steven Lagerfeld, seems a bit nervous about publishing it, concluding his introductory note with this: «It's a provocative argument, from a writer whose thinking never fails to command our interest.»

Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to think about communism, although Reagan often said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»

It all started a few years back when, as the senior editor of a Jerusalem - based journal of public thought, I ran into trouble on a 10,000 - word, brilliantly researched essay about Israeli social policy composed by the sweetest man on earth who, unfortunately wasn't a stellar writer.

While King David and Paul and just about every biblical writer speaks extensively about the profound effects of sin on our lives, there's not as much Scriptural support as you might think for the notion of «total depravity» as is often explained by Christians.

This was said, in, I think, genuine bewilderment, to to writer of this feature, during a discussion about same - sex marriage.

But in thinking about our use of «Christianese» — both as a writer and as a member of the Church — I think Christianese becomes unhelpful the moment we use it to protect ourselves from being honest with one another, the moment we use it to escape vulnerability.

The writer of this article is not aware of what God thinks about gay and lesbians.

Of the great but difficult Catholic philosopher G E M Anscombe, Haldane writes: «I think there was something of the existentialist or spiritual writer about her in the sense that she thought that the significance of a fact would only be evident to someone who was looking to find or to escape from it.»

(a) For the writers of the Hebrew Scriptures, the determining factors in thinking about nature, as about every other subject, are the all - controlling rights and power of God.

Even the Bible writer asks the believers to think and reason about the resurrection and what it would mean if Jesus had never been raised from the grave — useless faith.

As it turns out, the trick to building confidence as a writer is a lot simpler than I originally thought: It's all about practice.

But add in the aspect of being a blogger and writer who writes about All The Thoughts and Feeeeeeeeeeeelings publicly, and it gets a bit more complicated.

An easy target but it may amuse some of you: a writer in The Daily Telegraph pretends to be Dan Brown thinking about his critics as his book Inferno appeared.

In light of my previous post on Luther, and my opening post for this blog about being called a heretic, I thought I might comment on some recent articles and books which condemn me (and other speakers and writers) as someone who teaches a crossless gospel.

It isn't even about God... what this writer who «sobered up» without God doesn't get is that in AA (which incidentally she, by virtue of writing her article is in direct conflict with one of the Twelve Traditions of AA) it clearly says «as we understood Him» — your Higher Power can be your dog, as long as you realize you aren't running the show... lest we forget that our best «thinking» got us there...

By far the best article I have ever read on this site, there was no bias or empty statements, just cold hard facts, the writer even respected wengers budget but still pointed to where he should've improved, there are no excuses, what you read is literrally all u get with arsene, if you gave him a budget of 9m or 1 billion, he will ALWAYS take the risk cause he doesn't give a fk about the consequences as if he was a teenager raging through puberty, his stubborn is absolutely pathetic, can you believe he turned down signing a keeper when almunia was shocking, can you believe he didn't sign a CB when squillaci was awful, can you believe that he REFUSED to sign a CDM for almost 8 years, CAN you believe on one of the most important transfer windows of arsenals history, arsene decided to go host charity matches in rome, that's right instead of trying hard for the fans that have respected him and pay him one of the highest managerial wages in the world, he decided to do what he pleased as usual, cause he doesn't answer to anyone, nor does he giving a flying fk, gazidis a man i thought was also a crook went and did arsene's job for him and at least got us a striker (which cost us the title in january last season) and arsene foolishly proclaims that «if i was here we wouldn't of signed danny» meaning we wouldn't of had ANY recognised cf till giroud recovered, arsene wenger is a joke of the highest order, lack of respect, lack of shame and lack order, i despise him

At first i thought the writer intended to write about Emmanuel Petit as he is a pundit for SuperSport but when i discovered it Adebayo his real name (Source from Nigeria and not Adebayor) it becomes even clear the more reason i should care less about whatsoever he's got to say about Arsenal but trying to compare his stats is the height of ridicule i can imagine not forgetting his goal ratio to chances on goal at the service of Cesc etal.

I would say that is disappointing to hear that someone would express that, or a writer would express that because it is so far from what my beliefs are about my teammates and I think I am very empathetic about other people's experiences.

Sometimes i wonder what peeps think before writing articles like» WHY ARSENAL DO NOT NEED A NEW STRIKER»,» WHY ARSENAL SHOULD NOT SELL FLAMINI», WHY ARSENAL DO NOT NEED A NEW DM» and many other pointless articles.The writers are just go and gather info and because they like the players they write about they try to make us see it in their way contrary to what we see on the pitch.What is this be honest with yourself for once in a lifetime.Flamini is not good enough.Absolutely pointless.

Back in 2015, when fans and writers alike were asking Roger Federer to retire in order to preserve his legacy, Brian Phillips wrote about why it is silly to think that the future could diminish what Federer had achieved:

In part 1, Tim Cato, SB Nation NBA staff writer and Mavs Moneyball editor, joins us to examine five teams that are off to rough starts and may need to think about playing for next year.

i don, t know about you but when i see that i am offended the writers can, t be thinking much of us (the readers).

But it's hard to know whether the writers considered the fact that some women pump 12 times a day, sometimes when they are not in their homes, sometimes in the middle of the night, and thought about possible safe alternatives to washing immediately after every use.

Society isn't happy with single moms; according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study, nearly seven out of 10 said the trend toward single mothers was bad for society (although writer Tracy Mayor in Brain, Child magazine calls out the actual question asked by Pew researchers — how people felt about «more single women deciding to have children without a male partner to help raise them,» not whether they think single mothers per se are bad for society.

And one thing that..., that a writer called Kathy Detweiler who writes a lot about breastfeeding says is that, we are so used to that image of the enlarged post-surgery breast as being sexy, that we don't even think about it for a moment.

The more I think about it, the more I think the writer either was just super lazy and had her talking points in her head before she even started or had an agenda.

«I heard people talking about it but, honestly, I thought it was a joke,» said Ilina Ewen, a writer for the Deep South Moms and her own blog Dirt and Noise.

I'm torn between answering, flagging to migrate to History.SE, and flagging to close as offtopic (as this is about thought process of a private individuals at a newspaper) and flagging to close as offtopic since we can't read the mind of the editor / writer of the article.

Mike Atherton seems have developed into a proper columnist and sports writer, and while his column may the type of wise after the event piece you have in mind and are warning about, I think it was well judged and that the centre - left doesn't need to go into «jumpers for goalposts» nostalgia to strongly agree with this.

Running alongside the posters will be a «rush hour» social media campaign featuring a wider range of thoughts from humanist writers, as well as quizzes encouraging people to think about life.

The methods introduced in this paper, Levitin says, «can be used to study all sorts of things: how athletes organize their thoughts about body movements; how writers organize their thoughts about characters; how painters think about color, form and space.»

«I think you're making the very common mistake of imagining that a science - fiction writer knows something about the future.»

Thankfully, science writer Emily Willingham has parsed through the study in Forbes to show us what it really finds, which is not much that's new and certainly nothing that will change our thinking about the progress of autism or make us believe in the McCarthy miracle cure.

Appell's commentary summarizes Gavin Schmidt's RealClimate responses to both writers, condemns Crichton's and Will's errors, and ends by promising that why «the world is willing to pay attention to what novelists and political pundits think about the complex science behind global climate change is a subject for another day.»