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"And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers."
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"When building your team look for people who are disciplined even before they came to the Lord."
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"The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force."
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"God and government can work together."
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"Google Proves Nice Counts. On a quest to discover what it takes to build the "perfect team," Google launched the Project Aristotle initiative to find the answers. Over a period of several years, they surveyed hundreds of teams, conducted interviews, analyzed studies, and observed how team members interacted with one another.Google's findings revealed that "psychological safety" is the key ingredient for creating a high-functioning team. It nurtures a healthy environment that encourages freedom of expression, engaging communication, empathy for one another, caring, support, respect and, drum roll please . . . BEING NICE!"
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"Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth."
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"Incredible ideas, results, and outcomes are possible when two or more minds come together for a common purpose."
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"One note does not make a symphony, one artist does not make an orchestra."
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"You cannot build a strong team unless you teach your people discipline."
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"We have to make sure we have done our part then he will come and help us."
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"I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist."
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"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story."
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"I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him."
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"One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love."
Love
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
Self
"It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time."
Time
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
Work
"Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again."
Writing
"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
Writing
"When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else."
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"The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form."
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