But he went back to writing full time and eventually even returned to television.
Brin taught at San Diego State University and was a visiting scholar at UCLA before turning to writing full time.
There is no single model to follow when you are hired from the outside as CEO but the playbook that Laura Lang is writing at Time, Inc. is pretty good one to follow.
Clarity of purpose and passion ruled the day with less time spent writing about an idea and more time spent just doing it.
But his concentration was slipping: He had a hard time writing sermons or even reading.
Watson spends nearly as much time writing as he does planning for campaigns at sea.
There are so many reasons why people spend their working time, leisure time, stolen time writing.
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Spend time writing and editing your speech, and have it completed at least a few days in advance.
All of us have seen entrepreneurs who waste too much time writing business plans and preparing power points.
Perhaps all that time writing about Tudor princesses has led her to lose her head -- like so many Tudor heroines.
People often ask me why I spend time writing for Forbes and elsewhere when my main job is investing in stocks.
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There will be less of a need for folks to spend their time writing purely quantitative pieces, but that should be liberating.
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Image representing Siri as depicted in CrunchBaseI have been writing for some time that the pace of innovation at Apple was slowing.
Lucky Guy, the play she was writing at the time of her death, opened on Broadway earlier this month with Tom Hanks in the leading role.
She donated every year to a long list of organizations and she spent a lot of time writing out checks, addressing them, and mailing them off.
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In an interview published in Kenya's East African Standard on May 15th, Mr Mugabe says he is tired of politics and wants to spend more time writing.
Merchant remains bullish, but says it will take creativity (indeed, she herself spends significant time writing, but earns most of her money through a separate channel, public speaking).
But he's learning that he can no longer play the same role that he did in the early days, when he spent most of his time writing computer code.
Finally, for me the best thing about 4 years of consulting and part-time writing for the West Wing is that it is how I met my wife Allison Abner.
Dr Edwards, who was medical officer for BAS at the time it was shot two years ago, had planned to spend his time writing scientific research papers for medical journals.
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Why do some of our dreariest journalists spend all their time writing about Goldman Sachs, except to associate themselves with the status object they attack in order to raise their own status?
He is on sabbatical now and spends most of his time writing and occasionally lecturing on a vexing subject: How should people who call themselves Christians conduct their lives in the secular world?
I've skimmed The New York Times, read a few updates on Facebook, checked a Yahoo account that consists mostly of spam and spent a disproportionately long time writing an e-mail connecting two friends in Beijing.
Still, after she noticed one home-based employee's output lagging for several months, the program enabled her to see that the employee was spending a lot of time writing Word documents, something not required for her job.
Rather than go to that Citibank or Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) with baby in tow, or spend precious free time writing and mailing checks, do all of your banking online.
"If Bill de Blasio spent more time reading The Wall Street Journal and less time writing us useless letters, he would know that the City is not even considering doing the things he urges us not to do, " mayoral spokeswoman Julie Wood said in an email.
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It is one of the core arguments of my forthcoming book, The Courageous State, ( due out in September if I finish writing it in time) that if markets are to work properly then they must be built on the foundation of strong government that is willing to issue firm regulation that it is willing to enforce.
Certainly on weekends I did a lot of writing, and I took some vacation time off and did writing.
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