Typing Quotes

• Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Communication, Skills

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 13, 2011

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• That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

  Truman Capote

  Writing

  Quoted in New Republic, 9 Feb. 1959

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• I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

  Carly Fiorina

  Phones, Way, Littles

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• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  Jack Adams

  Tests, Newton, Staff

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• My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

  George Weinberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Years, Use, Literature

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• To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

  John Sayles

  Character, Plot, Needs

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• Typing is no substitute for thinking.

  Richard Hamming

  Thinking, Substitutes

  "Structured BASIC programming". Book by John G. Kemeny, p. 118, 1987.

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• I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Keys, Naked

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• That's not writing, that's typing

  Truman Capote

  Art, Writing, Entertainment

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reading, Mind, World

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• From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beauty, Reading, Learning

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• We've decided [with Jordan Peele] that we need to be on the Internet for a little bit of time every day to figure out what's going on. It feels like we're working. It feels like you're all typing and you're searching.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Jordan, Needs, Littles

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Views, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.134, Harmony

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• First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth doing well. And to do anything well, wheter it be typing a letter or drawing up an agreement involving millions, we must give not only our hands to the doing of it, but our brains, our enthusiasm, the best - all that is in us. The task to which you dedicate yourself can never become a drudgery.

  B. C. Forbes

  Agreement, Hands, Drawing

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• I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested in different forms of writing and other kinds of narrative art. I'm working on a screenplay. But when I was working on Eileen, I definitely felt like I was taking a piss. Like, here I am, typing on my computer, writing the "novel." It wasn't that it was insincere, but there was a kind of farcical feeling I had when I was writing.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Art, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

  Philip Greenspun

  Thinking, Language, Haskell

  "How long is the average Internet discussion forum posting?". Philip Greenspun's Weblog, blogs.harvard.edu. March 7, 2005.

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• Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Class, Looks, Actors

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: I’m Typecast For Being Rich". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.

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• Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

  Joichi Ito

  School, Independent, College

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• Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.

  Boris Karloff

  Mean, Blessing, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.

  Quinn Norton

  Falling In Love, War, Passion

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• It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.

  J. B. Priestley

  Children, Piano, Keys

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• Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

  Mike Lazaridis

  Real, Iphone, Keys

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

  Kanye West

  Book, Conceited, Air

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• At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

  Sara Gruen

  Writing, Perfect, Stories

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