Sentences with phrase «time book writing»

In fact, once you've got a scientific career up and running, you might consider switching to full - time book writing.

Not exact matches

If you read every time management book ever written or go to every time management seminar offered, you'll be able to boil all the technique «stuff» down to just a few things worth doing.

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

Probably because the process for writing a book takes too much time and is needlessly complicated.

It can bring more opportunity, speaking engagements with hefty fees, even the opportunity to write another book — this time with a larger advance.

I am not kidding here, I'm probably forced to turn off my laptop and read a book (or write a blog like this one) at least 50 percent of the time.

«This is a good time for Ron Chernow's fine biography of Ulysses S. Grant to appear,» wrote Bill Clinton in the New York Times Book Review.

At the time, she was writing five books, meditating daily and running a startup in aggressive growth mode.

She drives the final race of her career at the Indy 500 and then will focus full - time on her entrepreneurial goals, (having already written a health and fitness book, launched an apparel line and opened her own vineyard)

But while spending more time with the written word is pretty much always a good idea, there is another way to increase how much nourishment your brain gets from books.

Now, he writes books, records episodes of a popular podcast and spends time at motivational speaking events that often center on helping people communicate more effectively.

The takeaway here — as much as it pains someone who writes for the Web to say it — is that the best sort of reading is probably the most old - fashioned: just you, a book, and a quiet room for an extended period of time.

Ms. Huffington writes about her vision for a society and workplace culture where sleep is prioritized over pushing the limits and burning the candle at both ends in her new book The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.

New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell wrote extensively about Kenna in his 2005 book Blink, arguing Kenna's music - a cross between rap and the British new wave music of the 1980s - failed to gain widespread acclaim in the U.S. because it didn't fit into any familiar category.

These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed time.

«At the time, I was devastated,» he wrote in his book «Zero to One.»

Take time to read books for pleasure, not just for work, and while you're at it, do some writing, too.

Tim Ferriss has had the opportunity to interview some of the greatest business minds of this generation and has written a number of New York Times bestselling books encapsulating the lessons he has learned.

We talk about grit all the time here at Spartan Race but Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is the woman who literally wrote the book about it (or at least she will be when Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is published May 3 by Scribner).

There's a reason there are so many books written about time management: It is crucial to success.

In his book «My Decade in the Premier League,» he wrote: «The club like us not to go overboard on the eating and drinking in the close - season break, so if I go abroad I like to get into the hotel gym three times a week to work on the treadmill and do some weight work.

I found a peculiar euphoria in thinking about my theory, which I thought about all the time,» Wise, who wrote a book on the subject, explained.

In his book Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, Schultz wrote:

'' [They] come into the world as their parents» sole princess or prince,» wrote Jeffrey Kluger, author of the book «The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us» in an article for «Time.»

In total, they are worth more than $ 850 million, and collectively they have written more than 20 New York Times bestselling books.

Andy Grove is a legend, and the fact that he took the time to write this book for us all is a huge gift.»

As the comic strip grew to thousands of newspapers by the late 90s, Adams continued to expand his horizons, serving as co-owner of Stacey's Caf in Pleasanton, California, and having written a variety of books, including two number one New York Times bestsellers.

For instance, every time I sit down to write an article or a chapter in my next book the playgroup either erupts or all the ideas play hide and seek.

As a result, as Trump was writing the book, there was no way she could have predicted that, by the time it was published, she would have quit her job as CEO of Ivanka Trump to work in an official White House role.

«The process of writing proved to be very therapeutic and healing for me, and provided a way to look back over the time line of my grief and process how I was truly feeling,» says Ledeboer, who is now working on a book based on her blog posts.

In an interview after his book was finally released, Zusak said, «In three years, I must have failed over a thousand times, but each failure brought me closer to what I needed to write, and for that, I'm grateful.»

You may never write a book or call yourself a writer, but if the majority of your day is spent stringing words together to communicate, then it's worth your time to learn how to do it well.

It's a book that I revisit from time to time simply for its goldmine of wisdom on life, writing, and everything in between.

Given that Donald Trump «wrote» the best - selling «business» book of «all time,» it's surprising that Hillary Clinton in the last few weeks has proven to be the better dealmaker in at least one case: how they have dealt with their main political rivals.

A 56 - page journal written by Turing during his time at Bletchley Park is being auctioned off by Bonhams on April 13 in New York as part of its Fine Books and Manuscripts sale.

The teacher: Steven Heller writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review and is the editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

In his book Deep Work, he writes that time management basically doesn't matter, especially in environments in a state of flux.

So, you're 42 year - old and you've written seven of the greatest - selling books of all time.

The same happened a few other times when he wrote about some personal failures, his book and even went to a few speaking engagements, but he learned to push through the fear each time.

«In the last five years, I've managed to find the time to write, publish, and promote multiple books, including two award - winning bestsellers, develop a Web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences.

Kjellberg has the most subscribers of any creator on YouTube, he wrote a book that went to number 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and last year, he launched his own network, Revelmode, under the auspices of Maker Studios, the digital production company owned by Disney.

If you're aiming more for creativity than productivity and have a bit more time to devote to a morning writing practice, you might want to give the idea of Morning Pages, developed by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist's Way, a try.

Your customer - support team may never write a book or call themselves writers, but if the majority of their day is spent stringing words together to communicate, then it's worth their time to learn how...

Five - time bestselling author, Jeff Goins, says «The hardest part about writing a book isn't getting published.

Because of this, if you're an entrepreneur, the temptation for you to write a book is probably at an all - time high.

According to him, if the answer isn't «yes», you may want to reconsider whether or not you should spend your precious time and energy writing a book.

Not only did basically no one complain about receiving this email brush off, McGeown also reports that his routine made writing the book flow smoothly and allowed him to still carve out time for his family.

«There really is a best time to do just about anything and everything, and that's especially true when it comes to buying things,» writes Mark Di Vincenzo in his book, «Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon»

I think Buffett wrote a bunch of letters that were compiled by Lawrence Cunningham that get (ph) into topics, and that was laid out and I always assign that in my class which I just think is a great, great book and you mention my three books three times and so you have to read those too.