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Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers
American Writer
Born: Mar 12, 1970
Book Every Get People Time You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. Dave Eggers
Good Strange People First More Than Then
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. Dave Eggers
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They took my mother's stomach out six months ago. Dave Eggers
Mother Took Months Out Stomach Six
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. Dave Eggers
People Ways Relentlessly Arabia Easy Like Surprising Lot Any Place Saudi Saudi Arabia
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. Dave Eggers
Tree Bathroom Window Small Through Tall Yard December Gray
It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. Dave Eggers
Family Our Taste Just Inconsistent
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher. Dave Eggers
You Year One-On-One Higher Student Attention Hours Know Proven Been Get Grade Level
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students. Dave Eggers
Day Every Day Every One-On-One Ratio Students Attention Were Goal Offer Trying
But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia. Dave Eggers
Other Bit Kids Something Like Stigma Were Going Just Just A Little Bit Different Psychological Happening Little Little Bit Thing
But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. Dave Eggers
Day Home You Finished Homework Kids TV One-On-One About Something Given Finishing Attention Know Go Go Home Front Getting Stall Working
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. Dave Eggers
Time Good You Light Smart Shine Say Kids Tell Some Know How How Much Human Just Interaction Plain Them Much
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. Dave Eggers
Government Day Every Day Every Giant Impact Foot Misplaced Encounter Human After Interested
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. Dave Eggers
Time Good Me Writing Mind Important Lost Spend Once Bit Some Three-Dimensional Results Around Did Just Little Little Bit Floating
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. Dave Eggers
You People Lost Young Guess Worse Though Having Mortality Feel Were Than Anybody Procrastinate Acquainted
But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. Dave Eggers
Incredibly Caring Chaos Everyone Chaotic Everything About Like Know Also Household Were Very Where While Internalize Dad Fought Mum Mum And Dad
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. Dave Eggers
Think Too Hopeful Something Got Trusting Far Mum
I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. Dave Eggers
Mentioned Had He Sort Chicago Up Often Fan Large Grown Grown-Up
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. Dave Eggers
Me Will Appropriate Way Some Given Involved Begging Get Any Form Story Might Graphic Novel
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter. Dave Eggers
Needs School Reading Everyone Out High High School Only Through Students Look The Only Thing Thereafter Keeping Thing
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. Dave Eggers
Lying Books Would Would-Be Somehow Beat Feel Drum Printing Said Mean Right
When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen. Dave Eggers
Work Elsewhere One Thing Online Computer Read Doing Go Screen Want Away Thing
You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist. Dave Eggers
You Expectation Own Unlimited Able Magazine Operate Exist Account Expense Whether Newspaper Might Product Your Certainly Reasonable
I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. Dave Eggers
News Morning Words Value Too Back Way Online Still Get Just Newspaper Worked Started
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. Dave Eggers
Beautiful You Think Paper Web More Invest Aesthetic Than Format Uniquely Need
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. Dave Eggers
You Saving Books Months Easy Print Printing Shipping Midwest Customs Started Number
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. Dave Eggers
Work Time You Book Every Every Time Say Out Through Never Takes Nonfiction Get Again Much
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