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Steven Sinofsky Quotes

Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.

Steven Sinofsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1965

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The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.

Jillionaire

Music Space Hip-Hop Places Musically

The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because their work didn't fit neatly into potted categories but also because they avoided the self-promotional efforts of their peers.

Joanna Scott

Work Time Past Peers Because Only

Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

Matthew Pearl

Villain Book Negative Story Powerful

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

Ann Demeulemeester

Lonely Creating Ways Lot Thing

Every team has a play style, in my opinion. The video speaks for itself; that's what we always pay attention to.

Mike McCarthy

Style Team Opinion Attention Play

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.

Michael Koryta

Work Home Music River Song Cold

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

Jared Kushner

Good Good Things Bad Know Done

I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.

Derek Walcott

Wedding Want Royal Write Event

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Clint Eastwood

People World Feel Living Some People

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

Brad Thor

Love Passion People You Write Tell

We're willing to spend countless dollars putting people who need help in cages, and then when they get out we say you can't have a job, and you can't have housing, and because you don't have either, we're going to take your kids, too.

Susan Burton

Job People Help You Say Need

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

Susan George

Accounting Tools Know Need Tell Us