Dictation Quotes - Page 2

• You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Writing, Hands

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• If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

  Gertrude Stein

  Creation, Ifs

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• the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Might, Lasts, Ends

  Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1960.

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• I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Writing, Made

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• One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Philosophy, Issues, Way

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• The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.

  Ayn Rand

  Writing, Listening, Might

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.74, Penguin

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• Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Mind

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.83, 谷月社

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• Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

  Andre Breton

  Real, Independent, Writing

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• I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.

  Brian Bosworth

  Moving, Feds, Fed Up

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• If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

  William Graham Sumner

  Wisdom, Men, Want

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays”

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• I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Uncles, Inspiration, Writing

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• ... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

  Bob Black

  Order, Giving, Police

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Feelings, Sometimes

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• Being creative is not so much the desire  to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

  Anni Albers

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Self, Definitions, Information

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.16, Routledge

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• Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Oil, Middle East

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