Tayari Jones Quotes

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

Tayari Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1970

Topics

I AmTeenOrganizationWritingNow

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

Andy Serkis

LearningBeingLearning CurveCurve

The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.

Stef Wertheimer

MoneyToolsWithoutStartedMachines

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

Tom Chatfield

EducationArtBestFocusTeachers

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

Robin Gibb

BrainDoctorWake UpSomeoneYouUp

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Mitch Kapor

DownMeanValleySilicon ValleyJust

Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.

Lou Diamond Phillips

WomenRespectTimePainLosingYou

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

Don McLean

SongAmericanFeelLossPieWhy

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!

Dolph Ziggler

I AmTryingFirstNextGoingAnyone

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'

Dick Costolo

CommunicationSadTimeTrustTeam

I have a varied collection of music on my phone. I like a lot of the popular music that has a really energetic beat to it, as well as some classical things.

Chesley Sullenberger

MusicPhoneThingsBeatWellLike

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?

Anthony Weiner

HealthCareInsuranceYouChoice

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

Peter Capaldi

WinEgoDoingEarlyDownPlay

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