Carolina QuotesWhat Alvin figured out was that when you're Making, you don't use people like tools. You don't wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they're right.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 14.
- work
- Alvin Journeyman (1995)
- year
- 1995
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