"Trust doesn't come haphazardly. It really has to be built over time. And that trust has to happen really at times when there isn't a crisis. That's why I think having regular meetings and conversation when there's no crisis, when you can build trust and a friendship and a relationship that allows for better dialogue and far more consequential deal-making can occur when a crisis does come up."

Source : "Former Senate leaders: Here's how to make a deal" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.

Tom Daschle

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“When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.”

Source : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2005). “Death of a Discipline”, p.26, Columbia University Press
“Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.”

Source : "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.”
“The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe] is either a false myth or else he represents the denial of human society. We can't play by ourselves. In literature, it's even more complicated, because one has to play with an indeterminate number of players simultaneously and every game is different. The other player can abandon your game at any time...to go play chess.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds ahead, or two hundredths of a second, or two days. Napoleon on an eighteenth century battlefield had something more like a two-day advantage. Wayne Gretzky in a hockey game was probably a second ahead of everyone else on the ice.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.”

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