Lists the meaning and origin of more than 1,700 traditional and contemporary English proverbs.

EARS OPEN, MOUTH SHUT contains simple, yet critical advice for new entrepreneurs and those making a fresh start in their entrepreneurial life. Whether you are already on your way and ready to make the leap into your own business, are considering a shift from worker to owner, or need a look at why the business accounts are dry and you're on the way to crashing into a fireball, EARS OPEN, MOUTH SHUT will give you a head start by saving you from many of the mistakes people make when starting their own business. Mike Ognek is a former Marine Officer, successful entrepreneur, and author of Maneuver Management: Planning and Communication for Business Success. Looking back on his early entrepreneurial career, he saw the mistakes he made and realized how obvious they were after the fact. Like so many budding entrepreneurs, he read a lot of business books and learned a lot of higher level concepts that helped him in certain areas. The mistakes he made were not high level mistakes, however, so those books didn't help much. As he began working with other businesses to improve their operations with the tools and methodologies of Maneuver Management, he saw entrepreneurs making the very same mistakes he made. From that, he studied the most common, basic, and detrimental mistakes and compiled them in EARS OPEN, MOUTH SHUT so others could avoid the pains associated with making them.

A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

This book is a daily devotional book to help you connect with God on a daily basis and grow in Christ. The author uses everyday observations of her own life to connect you to God's Word. The purpose of this book is to help others grow in their faith and to point readers to Jesus, to encourage people to read and dig deep into the Word of God.

When we hear that someone close to us has been diagnosed with cancer, we want nothing more than to comfort them with words of hope, support, and love. But sometimes we don't know what to say or do and don't feel comfortable asking. With sensitive insights and thoughtful anecdotes, Help Me Live provides a personal yet thoroughly researched account of words and actions that are most helpful.

Born in the deep South, the author writes from the pain of loss and the victory of redemption in this moving memoir of her life and her family.