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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
wants
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
wants
I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage. Don Rickles
want united
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it. C. S. Lewis
want able assuming
I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything. Cecelia Ahern
want looks relevant
If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared. Carrie Brownstein
want littles fit
And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating. Carrie Fisher
want victim
I don't want to be a victim.
want looking-good happy-person
Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
want
Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.
going-out enjoy wells
Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out. Beatrice Wood
going-out higher-education higher
Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business. Mark Cuban
going-out new-things
I love going out and doing new things. Bo Jackson
going-out clubs scene
Going out is such a hassle. The singles club scene where you sit down, talk, get to know each other, hang out-it's such a big ordeal. Brian Austin Green
going-out busier business-sales
It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale. David Livingstone
going-out quitting ifs
If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there. Jesse Eisenberg
going-out dinner chance
I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better. Harry Styles
going-out return succeed
It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed. H. G. Wells
going-out
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society. Julia Ward Howe