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I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
James Schuyler
Though
Poem
Toward
Particularly
Revise
End
Often
Cut
Much
I'm most drawn to characters who are compelling and repellant at the same time, very often right at the same moment, and who are frightening and funny all at once.
James Spader
Funny
Time
Once
Drawn
Characters
Most
Very
Frightening
Same
Often
Same Time
Moment
Who
Compelling
Right
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
James Surowiecki
Synergy
Seems
Arise
Beyond
Most
Call
Hear
Expand
Siren
Often
Businesses
Companies
Reinvention
Start
Desire
Core
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.
James Surowiecki
Work
Fashion
Procrastination
Problems
College
Long
Own
Prone
College Students
Finishing
Vast
Vast Majority
Long Periods
Students
Putting
Piece
Academics
Majority
Periods
Off
Surveys
Articles
Author
May
Often
Literature
Procrastinate
Who
Things
Suggest
In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.
James Surowiecki
Work
Technology
Business
People
Practice
Too
About
Weeks
Investments
Force
Making
Doing
Same
Often
While
Cutting
Your
Gap
Fill
Downsizing
Keeping
Bringing
Pull
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
James Surowiecki
Enormous
Developing
Developing Countries
Red
Countries
Red Tape
Deal
Tape
Often
Requiring
Businesses
Amount
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
James Surowiecki
Confidence
People
Job
Sense
Signal
Possibility
Out
Something
Tend
Take
Wrong
Long-Term
Employers
Unemployment
Often
Unfairly
Being
Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
James Surowiecki
Art
Science
Big
Understanding
Situation
Variables
Seems
More
Generally
Involve
Lots
End
Than
Often
Just
Them
Standards
Wars
Players
Two
In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.
James Surowiecki
Struggle
Value
More
Between
Most
Because
Real
Been
Source
Historically
Won
Labor
Than
Owned
Controlled
Often
Capital
Hard
Companies
Assets
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
James Surowiecki
Music
You
Be Happy
Happy
Song
Thrive
Never
Know
Hear
Heard
Repetition
Hit
Often
Again
Pop
Pop Music
I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.
James Turrell
You
Dark
Side
See
Emerges
More
Feel
Daylight
Hours
Buildings
Often
After
Aspect
It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.
James Turrell
Myself
People
Made
Difficult
Drawings
Find
Visualize
See
Along
Talking
Go
Surprised
Been
Going
Often
Them
Things
In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.
James Turrell
Wonderful
Thought
Would
About
Cases
Take
Knew
Hindsight
Often
Might
Many
Twice
The marooned friend is one of the best-known scams, principally because it's the one that dodges the spam filter most often. It comes from someone you know but often only tangentially. It's since become - hands down - one of my favourite scams.
James Veitch
You
Become
Down
Filter
Scams
Favourite
Someone
Only
Since
Know
Most
Principally
Because
Friend
Hands
Often
Spam
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.
James Wan
You
People
Important
Think
Find
Critics
Scare
See
Horror
Terms
Always
Been
Irony
Craft
Going
May
Often
Movies
Disregarded
I often work 14-hour days, but the job is very fulfilling. I love being my own boss.
James William Middleton
Work
Love
Job
Own
Boss
My Own
Days
Very
Often
Being
Fulfilling
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.
James Wolcott
Best
Myself
Writing
Reading
Believe
Enjoy
Lobbying
Collections
Find
Hut
Writer
Never
Since
Years
Shines
Up
Five
Mountain
Often
Fan
Hole
Forth
Galloping
Regularly
Enjoy Reading
Four
Bring
Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
James Wolk
You
Television
Given
Scene
Read
Amazed
Get
Often
Script
My characters are often without a significant parental figure.
Jamie Bell
Characters
Significant
Parental
Without
Often
Figure
I often find the smaller, independent films are much more rewarding than the bigger stuff, but you do the bigger stuff because it's a business, and you've got to show your face a bit, get yourself around.
Jamie Bell
You
Business
Yourself
Face
Films
Bit
Independent
Independent Films
Find
More
Smaller
Stuff
Because
Around
Got
Than
Get
Often
Rewarding
Bigger
Much
Your
Show
When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.
Jamie Cullum
School
Young
Air
Classical
Having
Piano
Pianos
Students
Around
Said
Always
Discourage
Go
Been
Very
Person
Often
Wanted
Which
Young Person
Play
What's interesting is often people think life changes when you have a record deal and you do all kinds of stuff. Obviously your life changes, but nothing changes your life like getting married and having kids.
Jamie Cullum
Life
You
People
Nothing
Think
Changes
Kids
Married
Kinds
Life Changes
Record
Record Deal
Having
Stuff
Like
Obviously
Deal
Getting
Often
Getting Married
Interesting
Your
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
Jamie Dimon
Time
Business
Stumble
Build
Strategy
Other
Benefit
Scale
More
Area
Outside
Shareholders
Over
Sake
Hand
Expand
Often
Succeed
Customers
Companies
Grow
Growth
Core
I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.
Jamie Johnson
People
Wealth
Think
Guarded
Something
Obviously
Very
Personal
Personal Experiences
Often
Where
Want
Experiences
Regarding
Describe
I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded. They're very worried about how people are going to react to what they say.
Jamie Johnson
People
Wealth
Think
Guarded
Worried
Say
About
Something
React
Obviously
How
Very
Personal
Personal Experiences
Going
Often
Where
Want
Experiences
Regarding
Describe
They Say
With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Time
You
Short Hair
Three
Hair
Every
Every Time
Fraudulent
Color
Weeks
Coloring
Haircut
Felt
Get
Did
Often
Short
Your
Two
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