"Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising."

-- William Strunk, Jr.

#Learning Quotes #Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes

“A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).”
“A lot of companies are still using social as the worldâ€™s shortest press release.”
“When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.76
“I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.”
“So do you want your life to "take off"? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be-and move into that. Check every thought, word and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.”
“I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.”

Source : Leanne Payne (1999). “Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal”, p.121, Baker Books
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”

Source : Polly Bergen (1974). “Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does”, Peter H. Wyden Incorporated

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