"If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame."

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Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.99, iUniverse

Jo Coudert

#Notebook Quotes #Meaningful Quotes #Running Quotes

“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.”
“I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.”
“History will tell the story, America will always stand.”
“Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.”
“I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!”
“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.”
“I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.”
“Remember that a healthy body is built or destroyed one decision at a time. It's up to you.”

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