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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.
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.
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.
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
painter
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister. Gail Carson Levine
pain heaven desire
Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them. C. S. Lewis
pain men imagination
No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.
pain real believe
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
pain writing interesting
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
pain pleasure pain-and-pleasure
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
pain loneliness new-relationship
But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next. Cecelia Ahern
pain addiction mind
I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction. Carrie Fisher
pain average pseudoscience
If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?
journey perspective share
I am always willing to share my perspective and my personal experience and my journey. Bethenny Frankel
journeys ups
It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs. Mark Zuckerberg
journeys people
If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.
journeys love
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown. Pat Conroy
journey responsibility safe school sure
We have the responsibility to do everything we can to make sure the journey to and from school is as safe as it can be for children, Matt Blunt
journeys thinking
I was thinking about that, about the journeys in the film, journey to the roots, journey to the heart. We're all on journeys. Maya Angelou
journey turns
You have started your journey and if everything turns out fine, you can end up in Brussels. Javier Solana
journey red turn wilderness
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
journey
Journey has always been one that we wanted for the Jam.