John Kessel
John Kessel
JohnKesselis an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer, and the author of two solo novels, Good News From Outer Spaceand Corrupting Dr. Niceand one novel, Freedom Beachin collaboration with his friend James Patrick Kelly...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 September 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard.
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An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.
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Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.
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Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.
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If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.
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Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.
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One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.
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Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.
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The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement.
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There must be a dozen films now based on Philip K. Dick novels or stories, far more than any other published science fiction writer. He's sort of become the go-to guy for weird science fiction notions.
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Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
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Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
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I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.
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Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.