Sentences with phrase «writing habits of»

Do you want to know some of the writing habits of some of your favorite best selling authors?

One of my favorite sentences from A Year of Writing Dangerously is from # 152, The Eleven Day Marathon, a 2 - paragraph reflection on the writing habits of Georges Simenon, author of the Inspector Maigret mystery series (a mystery series which kept me busily reading for over a decade.

(All of this is more information than you cared to know about, I'm sure, but I find the writing habits of other writers fascinating... so every once in a while, I indulge myslf.)

Not exact matches

«They share a habit of mind that is best described as «applied curiosity,»» he writes.

The billionaire credits much of his success to the simple habit of jotting down ideas: «Some of Virgin's most successful companies have been born from random moments — if we hadn't opened our notebooks, they would never have happened,» he writes on LinkedIn.

It's sort of interesting how much time everyone spends reading and writing about the habits of really successful people when I can tell you the one thing that sets them apart in one little phrase: They're not slackers.

Make it a daily habit to write in a journal, get on a writing schedule to simply just write what comes to mind or wherever your imagination takes you or use any other methods that may work best for you in the pursuit of developing your creative potential.

In the finals, as Jackson writes in his new memoir, Eleven Rings, «Michael was reverting to his old habit of trying to win games by himself.»

Speaking at schools and community centers across America, I was inspired to write this book when I saw an underserved need for a guide that would show aspiring and current entrepreneurs how to leverage their personal habits and goals to make themselves into the type of person a successful entrepreneur is.»

Get in the habit of writing down who was present (names and business relationship) and what business was discussed.

I succeeded in making writing a habit a few months later when I started with a goal of producing just 50 - words a day.

Here's how it worked: Employees clicked on a coworker's name in a particular section of the company's intranet, then wrote suggestions regarding specific habits that person should stop, start, or continue.

And even though I started off strong, I soon started missing days until I was back to my old bad habit of writing inconsistently.

That said, there's a staggering amount of content written every day about the behavior, habits, characteristics, and who knows what else of supposedly successful, wealthy and happy people.

Charles Duhigg writes in The Power of Habit, «Unless you deliberately fight a habit — unless you find new routines — the pattern will unfold automatically.&rHabit, «Unless you deliberately fight a habit — unless you find new routines — the pattern will unfold automatically.&rhabit — unless you find new routines — the pattern will unfold automatically.»

The sum of these stored behaviors is an object's habit field, and merely being around it compels our bodies and minds to act in certain ways,» he writes in an in - depth post on A List Apart.

«The obsession with quantification is rooted in a habit of applying economic categories to everything,» he writes.

«The most critical question we ask is whether the experience is truly a daily habit that still resonates for all of you today,» wrote Jay Rossiter, Yahoo's executive vice president of Platforms.

Sure, you can keep a written list and enter each of your cash purchases manually, but eliminating this step makes it easier to figure out how much you're spending, which is one of the best money habits you can adopt.

When I first wrote about the seven habits of effective SEM, my primary motivation was to point out that keyword selection was not the end...

What happened was, wealth guru Tom Corley wrote a list of 10 rich habits that will make you rich, followed by 18 poverty habits that are keeping you poor.

They have a nice habit of coming back to life so don't write them off yet.

When I first wrote about the seven habits of effective SEM, my primary motivation was to point out that keyword selection was not the end all, be all of SEM.

«In my opinion, if you are not talking about marriage and building a family, then there is no need to be exchanging credit scores, 401 (k) or any financial information,» wrote Meagan from Smyrna, Ga. «You can be working on correcting financial mistakes, if they are any, and developing great spending habits in your season of singleness, as I am doing.

Henry Olsen has written a fascinating and important article about the voting habits and worldview of the white working - class.

b) seek professional help to figure out why you have the compulsions in the first place, and develop a strategy to help you replace your unhealthy addictions with healthy habits c) contact a wild - eyed shaman to tell you which parts of his ancient magic book, written primarily for an illiterate, credulous audience, apply best to 21st Century psychological issues.

From writers who are creatively exhausted from managing a constant stream of online feedback, to readers who can't seem to pull themselves away from their smartphones, to activists who are burned out from responding to yet another crisis with a social media campaign, to foodies who can't enjoy a meal without snapping a photo for Instagram, our writing, reading, and sharing habits consume more of our time and mental energy than ever.

Daily I find myself slipping into those same old habits of judging people based on their theological positions and spending more time reading and writing about Jesus than actually building relationship with Him and loving «the least of these.»

He had early formed the habit of writing down the more unusual (or unintentionally self - revealing) angles of all he read.

To take the use of paper as an example of our institutional consumptive habits, must student papers be written on only one side of a page?

The great French philosopher, mystic, and factory worker, Simone Weil once wrote, «The habit of attention is the substance of prayer.»

Hey pal, you know... I've been trying to break you of that bad habit of yours of «writing in the aboveness»

We of who does speak and write and read based upon the KING's English have many variants of the Hebrewic doctines yet it is not in our edifying of such doctrines but like you stated above did write, «Christians have a bad habit of not translating the Bible well» is an exact truth!

His religious difficulty came from the kind of theology he found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.

I wrote last week that I wish more bloggers were honest about some of their blogging habits, and I want to be fully open about my own practices.

I do have a unfortunate habit of writing excitedly and forgetting to proof read.

13 And Washington in his Farewell Address wrote, «Of all the suppositions and habits which lead to political prosperity Religion and morality are indispensable supports.

While she makes a habit of only writing about things she's actually interested in, you should always assume that Rachel:

The habits of a lifetime ordained that I must see what I write, line by line.

Aristotle writes «The same causes and the same means that produce any excellence or virtue can also destroy it... The same holds true of the virtues: in our transactions with other men it is by action that some become just and others unjust, and it is by acting in the face of danger and by developing the habit of feeling fear or confidence that some become brave men and the others cowards....

Writers who deal with the work of God in history can not always write with the preciseness of an Aristotle discussing categories or the habits of animals.

For this has been your custom from the beginning [he writes to the Roman community]: to do good in divers ways to all the brethren, and to send supplies to many churches in every city, now relieving the poverty of the needy, now making provision, by the supplies which you have been in the habit of sending from the beginning to the mines.18

Lynch's academic habit of writing often leaves non-specialists, for whom the book is clearly intended, feeling that we would do better to live in our world and ponder it, rather than read a book about how we know.

I need to get into the habit of writing the spur of the moment ones down and taking photos.

This quirky habit of listening to sports - related chatter while I worked has carried on to this day, maybe even as I am writing this post.

We are in habit of writing players off before they even put on arsenal Jersey.

The fact that they mostly failed to kick the ball into the net means that they didn't deserve to win — good football without finishing is not good - enough football — but equally, assuming that all this missing doesn't become a habit, it suggests that it can be written off as just one of those days.

This rumour has been around for a while now, and given that Abramovich has made a habit of writing cheques to the coffers of the Calderon, it seems fairly plausible.

Sometimes that debate gets a little spiky but if it ever developed into abuse I'd make sure we never crossed paths again (or at least I'd try to — Twitter has a habit of making even the blocked appear on one's timeline — no matter how much I try to exclude anything written by Barton or Morgan, the two wastes of oxygen still invade).

I think that my blog has got me in the habit of writing from a life - in - progress, rather than sharing a narrative that was all tied up in a bow long ago.