Sentences with phrase «who wrote any of the books»

We can't consult with those who wrote any of the books of the Bible.

Not exact matches

«With our daughters, I never raised them how I was raised [with the assumption they'd join the family business,]» says Oddo, who has written a book on the principles of parenting.

The man who planned and commanded the raid, Admiral William McRaven, is a veteran leader who served at every level of the SEALs and who literally wrote the book on special operations.

«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.»

We thought the class of 2001 would be eager to hear from those who have been there, grown that, and written the book on it.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

While much of the credit for counterinsurgency goes to Petraeus (and Gen. James Mattis), who literally wrote the book on the subject, it was Mansoor who edited the work.

Or as Rabidoux, who's writing a book about our housing obsession, puts it, «the majority of new homeowners are still renters; they've just gone from renting space to renting money.»

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

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.

It's just one of the methods that I've used to get on calls with Jack Canfield (who invited me to write a chapter for his latest book), Marianne Williamson (who hired me to produce her upcoming podcast), and UFC Hall - of - Famer Bas Rutten (who after our work gave me a glowing testimonial).

Alas, as is often the problem with print — particularly for those of who write blogs and books — it's that there's rarely enough space to tell the story how you really want.

As that article made its way around the web, it attracted the attention of a literary agent who encouraged me to write a book.

Two of his colleagues who wrote a book on the myth of the paperless office found, for example, that for non-recreational reading, people usually need three documents simultaneously: one for reference, one for note - taking, and one containing whatever they're reading.

Derek Levine, who wrote a book on China's aviation ambitions, warns that «unless China learns how to make the most sophisticated elements of a plane, they'll always be a step behind».

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).

Armed with a kinesiology and biomechanics degree from McGill, the former university football player had learned how to mix supplements from Eric Serrano, a sports performance nutritionist, and bodybuilding guru Mauro Di Pasquale, a biochemist who consults for nutritional supplement companies and wrote a book extolling the benefits of amino acids for athletes.

When Thiel decided to write the current book — a pared - down, more elegant treatment of the same material, with some additions — he turned for help to Masters, who is now listed as the book's co-author.

Davidow, Theodore Levitt, Regis McKenna — none of these innovators who literally wrote the book on marketing had MBAs.

One of the nation's best gifting experts is John Ruhlin, who literally wrote the book («Giftology») on the subject.

One of the reasons I wrote this book is, I spent 21 years coaching one of the most brilliant guys in the world who never loses money.

«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.

He was part of a New York City dinner circuit that includes people who believe the US should go back to the gold standard, rich people who don't think they should have to give back to society in the form of taxes, and anyone interested in either of those ideas who wanted to write a book about them.

«You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man,» Zuckerberg wrote, referring to an artificially intelligent butler who appears in the Marvel comic books and movies.

Chris Anderson, who literally wrote the book on «free,» faces off with the tech gurus who say «free» is the great sham of the digital age.

And, you know, there's another amazing thinker, Steven Pinker, from Harvard, who wrote a book called «The Better Angels of Our Nature.»

According to one of Murdoch's chief lieutenants of his China project, Bruce Dover, who wrote a hilarious book, Rupert Murdoch's China Adventures: How the World's Most Powerful Media Mogul Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife, Murdoch spared no effort to win the goodwill of senior Chinese officials.

Moved by the story of her life, Bieber took a second to write in the guest book (or maybe he thought it was her autograph book, who knows): «Truly inspiring to be able to come here.

Steven Pressfield, in his bestselling book The War of Art, quotes Somerset Maugham who said «I write only when inspiration strikes.

It's not too much of an exaggeration to say the 2012 budget was inspired by, and might as well have been written by, Ethical Oil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealth.

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, Start a Successful Business, by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges.

Canadian demographer David Foot, who made a name for himself following the entrails of the baby boom and wrote the book Boom, Bust and Echo, has been warning for years that an aging workforce inevitably leads to slower economic growth.

And as I was writing that book, I had a trusted team of advisors who shared their feedback with me at every step of the editorial process.

Honestly, much better than many of us who only write books for a living.

It was the Cali cartel that three years ago ordered the death of a New York journalist, Manuel DeDios, who had written about the drug traffickers in Spanish - language publications and books.

This group of 10 money experts includes women who write for big publications (like Forbes, Inc, Business Insider, Fast Company, and Huffington Post), make over $ 100k a month, have created their own companies, have published books, and are successfully running their own podcast.

«When you're maxed out it stresses all the systems,» says Mark Gerchick, an aviation consultant and former chief counsel of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, who has written a new book about the industry called Full Upright and Locked Position.

In his book Cold Calling for Chickens (Cyan Communications London), sales trainer Bob Etherington writes, «Fact: In any market 85 % of the available new business goes to the 5 % of sales people who know the secret of successful cold calling.»

It was an honor to be quoted alongside Vivek Wadhwa, author of The Immigrant Exodus who also wrote the foreword of my book.

«Business books are often written by show - offs who want you to know all about their knowledge of the Greek tragedies and dark - coloured birds.

I read a cdn arts book written by a socialist kind of like Frasier Crane who actually turned me off arts funding a bit.

His father, Louis Lowenstein, was an attorney and Columbia University law professor who wrote books and articles critical of the American financial industry.

Buffett learned that lesson after reading up on the most noteworthy figure in value investing — Benjamin Graham, who along with David Dodd in 1935 wrote «Security Analysis,» which is perhaps the most widely read book in the modern era of investing.

Prince Edward Island was of course the home of Lucy Maud Montgomery, who wrote the beloved Anne of Green Gables series of books.

Hedge fund manager Seth Klarman, the value investing giant who often draws comparisons to Warren Buffett, wrote in his classic «Margin of Safety» book an illuminating parable warning against speculation:

And in his book, Children of the Great Depression, Glen Elder wrote that adolescents who experienced hardship in the 1930s became especially adaptable, family - oriented adults; perhaps, as a result of this recession, today's adolescents will be pampered less and counted on for more, and will grow into adults who feel less entitled than recent generations.

Many others are well - selling authors who make a lavish living from passive income from advances, royalties, seminars, and product sales — which all started and then snowballed — from the sale of their book (which of course started with writing a book proposal).

Loden, who has written three books, said much has changed from when she worked for one supervisor who used to tell her to smile more and another who invited John Molloy, the author of «Dress for Success,» to assess women supervisors» attire and tell some why they were never going to make it.

This would be like the Fed hiring Ron Paul, who wrote a book entitled «End the Fed,» to become one of its official champions and spokespersons.

Trust me, odds are that the folks who write books on this type of stuff are getting rich off of their book sales, not their investing prowess.