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notebook ideas records
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one. Bill Bryson
notebook motivation powerful
Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future. Carl Sagan
notebook pages way
Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way. Chad Harbach
notebook running block
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself. Chad Harbach
notebook running writing
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs. Charles de Lint
notebook growing-up artist
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand. Charles de Lint
notebook real character
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed. Charles de Lint
notebook prayer heart
When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart. Aiden Wilson Tozer
notebook writing gay
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere. Cherrie Moraga
thinking people photographer
I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me. Anton Corbijn
thinking artist open-minded
I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist. Antoine Fuqua
thinking differences house
If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house. Bill Vaughan
thinking air support
I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops. Bill Vaughan
thinking views people
I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos. Bill Vaughan
thinking
Think before you think! Bill Vaughan
thinking band needs
What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here. Bill Vaughan
thinking facts emphasis
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot. Bill Bruford
thinking topics hot
Robots... I think that is a hot topic. Bill Budge
dull job people putting rid work
Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with? Rodney Brooks
dull town
Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache. Pierce Brosnan
dull last wrestling year
We were still wrestling through last year when Greg was a senior. In wrestling, there is never a dull moment. Brent Fosheim
dull feels felt great high life low moved time
I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right. Olly Murs
dull growing hit supposed
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring. Joaquin Phoenix
dull expect given iraq market
I expect a dull market here, especially given uncertainty in the Iraq war. Hiroichi Nishi
dull
Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him. James Bryce
dull
Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him. James Bryce
dull holiday human knowledge material natural pursuit rather reckless voyage
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. Archibald Hill