Journal Quotes - Page 15

• Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Thinker, Mysterious Benedict Society, Knows

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• Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Athlete, Character

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• I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Reflection, Space

  Don DeLillo (2003). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Lines, Definitions

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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• We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Grief, Flames, Hands

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• These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Age, Encounters, World

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Grateful, Night, Perspective

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• I used to fall hard when I was younger, and it occupies a lot of journals and redundant preoccupation and analysis. It is a state in which you are in an overheated fervor of production - of mental production - where you're analyzing everything that happened. And what they said! And how they looked! Did that touch mean something, or not? Everything is sort of endowed with meaning, but you're also hopelessly boring and out of the world.

  Todd Haynes

  Fall, Mean, Analysis

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Writing, Way

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.422, Mango Media Inc.

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• Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Writing, Trying, Letters

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• Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

  Amy Tan

  Depression, Use, Mental Illness

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• The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.

  Richard Dawkins

  Differences, Engineering, Molecular Biology

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know . . . The only time I have ever seen a marijuana user look panicky is when they are out of marijuana.

  Jay Leno

  Marijuana, Causes, Looks

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• Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

  Billy Crystal

  Wall, Awards, Best Kept Secrets

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• Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Blow

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• Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream.                 Claim your promise.                                   Spell your miracle.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Writing

  Mark Batterson (2016). “The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears”, p.15, Zondervan

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• Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary," to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.

  Anne Frank

  Notebook, Girl, Real

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.13, GENERAL PRESS

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• A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

  A. C. Benson

  Book, Giving, Needs

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• My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

  Grace Paley

  Writing, Vocabulary, Useless

  Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan

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• Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.

  Morris Kline

  Practice, Should Have, Paper

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• Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

  Michele Cassou

  Writing, Done, Sake

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.28, Penguin

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• May I suggest that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous educational effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many-your families and others-now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Educational, Writing, Years

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• The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

  Andrew Revkin

  Pain, Animal, Technology

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• A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That's very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it's good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it's a wonderful source of story starters.

  Ann M. Martin

  Couple, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

  Ben Gibbard

  Moving, Land, Mind

  Source: www.spin.com

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