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You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.
Stephen Graham Jones
Needs
You
Quality
Writing
Money
Market
Out
Kind
Admit
Something
He
Come
She
Make
Sure
Bullied
Get
Trying
Stories
Interested
Clutch
Agent
Your
Novel
Publisher
Actually
Program
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.
Stephen Greenblatt
Love
Truth
Needs
Broken
Entertainment
Complicated
Care
Believe
Way
Though
About
Simply
Vehicle
Also
Narratives
Form
Conveyed
Conveying
Works
Fractured
We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.
Stephen Hadley
Hope
Needs
Made
Free
Complete
Our
Out
Possible
Outside
Clear
Soon
Fair
Come
Withdrawal
Forces
Done
Influence
Elections
Full
Need
Position
The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
Stephen Jay Gould
Needs
Important
Bone
Analysis
Our
Framework
Hopes
More
Likely
Subject
Err
Closer
Establishing
Cuts
Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.
Stephen Kinzer
Friendship
Needs
Relationship
Destruction
States
More
Habit
Self
Allowing
Toward
Supportive
Self-Destruction
Israel
Friend
Break
Richer
United
United States
Deeply
Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.
Stephen Kinzer
Needs
World
Dangerous
Dangerous Place
Remain
Idea
Powers
Western
Imprisoned
Managing
Place
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.
Stephen Kinzer
Needs
Respect
Political
Meet
Drawn
Arbitrary
Borders
Religious
Rather
Than
Afghanistan
Patterns
Ethnic
As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.
Stephen M. Ross
Great
Needs
You
Money
Responsibility
Made
First
Feeling
Great Feeling
City
Impact
About
Put
Developer
Also
Knowing
Making
Making Money
Lot
Goes
Really
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
Stephen Vizinczey
Life
Needs
Character
Virtue
Our
Possess
Vitality
Only
Bears
He
Between
Name
Real
Passes
Test
Person
Even
Imaginations
Products are sold because they solve a problem or fill a need. Understanding problems and needs involves understanding customers and what makes them tick.
Steve Blank
Needs
Problem
Problems
Understanding
Sold
Solve
Tick
Involves
Because
Makes
Them
Customers
Products
Fill
Need
Market type determines the startup's customer feedback and acquisition activities and spending. It changes customer needs, adoption rates, product features, and positioning as well as its launch strategies, channels and activities.
Steve Blank
Needs
Feedback
Positioning
Startup
Changes
Type
Channels
Market
Spending
Launch
Determines
Rates
Adoption
Features
Well
Customer
Acquisition
Product
Strategies
Activities
Once you establish what activities your company needs to do, the next question is, 'How do these activities get accomplished?' i.e. what resources do I need to make the activities happen?
Steve Blank
Needs
You
Resources
Once
Make
How
Accomplished
Question
Get
Establish
Happen
Next
Your
Company
Activities
Need
What's been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a 'playbook.' In American football, a playbook contains a sports team's strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.
Steve Blank
Needs
Me
Sports
Own
Every
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Struck
Outside
Football
Contains
Missing
Globally
Industry
How
Been
American
American Football
Region
Regions
Team
Strategies
Compete
Plays
For Customer Development to succeed, everyone on the team - from investor or parent company to engineers, marketers and founders - needs to understand and agree that the Customer Development process is different to its core.
Steve Blank
Needs
Everyone
Marketers
Parent
Investor
Development
Understand
Different
Process
Customer
Succeed
Engineers
Team
Agree
Company
Founders
Core
If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.
Steve Erickson
Needs
Political
Collective
Sum
Sum Total
Our
Total
Both
Marxist
House
House Of Cards
Vows
Always
Dictates
American
Personal
Theory
Cards
Desires
In golf, a wedge issue means just that: You can't hit your sand wedge, or your lob wedge needs to be regrooved. In politics, a wedge issue is more serious still: It's one that splits the electorate, dividing voters along ideological fault lines.
Steve Rushin
Politics
Needs
You
Fault
More
Wedge
Dividing
Splits
Along
Voters
Ideological
Still
Issue
Lines
Hit
Just
Golf
Sand
Means
Your
Electorate
Serious
The country badly needs to have a right-of-center political party, grounded in traditional values that the Republican Party represented till it didn't.
Steve Schmidt
Needs
Political
Values
Country
Party
Badly
Till
Traditional
Traditional Values
Political Party
Republican
Republican Party
Grounded
Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.
Steven Adler
Needs
Band
Every
Out
Record
New
Come
Rock
Rock And Roll
Years
Roll
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself.
Steven Amsterdam
Needs
Family
You
Yourself
Walk
Member
Minor
Someone
House
Advise
Got
Educate
Provide
Family Member
Dying
Your
Who
Serve
Because Facebook can't exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it.
Steven Levy
Needs
Facebook
AI
Build
Because
Without
Exist
Engineers
The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.
Steven Sinofsky
Time
Needs
Business
Culture
First
Half
Revolution
Marked
Defined
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Modern
Capabilities
Century
Created
Organizations
Derived
Large-Scale
Start
'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?
Steven Soderbergh
Needs
People
Problem
Cinema
Made
Experiment
Think
Idea
Still
Happened
Interested
Movies
Who
Lucky
Grown-Ups
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.
Steven Van Zandt
Needs
World
Master
Immediate
Relief
Responsible
Emergency
Boss
True
Disaster
Execution
Around
Commander
Anticipation
Person
Efforts
Urgent
Rescue
Czar
From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.
Steven Weber
Needs
People
Path
Steady
Seems
Having
Physically
Never
Towards
Like
Industrial
Been
America
Order
Full-On
Moment
Satisfy
Present
Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad; I think it's inevitable. I think it's just human nature.
Steven Wilson
Sad
Needs
Nature
People
Inevitable
Before
Human Nature
Think
Accept
Human
Just
Storm
Explained
When you are performing at the top level you don't get many chances to go back to basics as you are in elite performance mode. It's hard to break your technique or action down when it always needs to be at a match intensity.
Stuart Broad
Needs
You
Action
Down
Back
Top
Performance
Performing
Match
Always
Go
Mode
Get
Intensity
Break
Your
Hard
Many
Technique
Level
Elite
Basics
Chances
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