Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.
You'll never be great at anything you're not passionate about.
It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It’s definitely always a place that’s going to be very special to me.
When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.
The secret to failing isn't failing; the secret to failing is failing forward.
Great leaders remove obstacles-including themselves.
The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?
I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.
The Democrat Party is threatened by people whose economic circumstances improve to the point that they do not need government first and foremost. That's a threat. But this happens when the U. S. economy is humming. There is a lot of upward mobility, and people leave the lower depths of poverty and start traversing a pathway through the middle class to the upper middle class, and as they leave, the Democrats have to replace them. That is what illegal immigration has been since 1965 when Ted Kennedy reintroduced the whole concept after 40 years of no immigration from 1921 to 1965.
The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.