Journal Quotes - Page 8

• People who keep journals have life twice

  Jessamyn West

  Motivational, People, Journal Writing

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

  Richard Powers

  Reading, Past, Years

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• I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, People, Psychology

  Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.259, We Publish Books

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• I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable. If only we had the power to keep outside ourselves at such moments, we would spare ourselves so much pain and fear. I'm not talking about truth or falsehood but about surviving.

  Rachel Klein

  Girl, Pain, Talking

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

  Chris Robinson

  Atlanta

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

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• It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

  Carol Shields

  Learning, Records, Forget

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.111, Penguin

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• In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying.

  James Wright

  Morning, Passion, Years

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• I don't keep a journal.

  Chris Evans

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• I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

  Charles Stross

  Jobs, Reading, Editors

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

  Guy Kawasaki

  The End Of The Day, Peers, Peer Review

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• My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.

  Paul Auster

  Children, Father, Reading

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.

  Paul Auster

  Dream, Father, Book

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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• The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

  Peter Mayle

  Wall, Thinking, Looks

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• I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

  Rodney Brooks

  Ideas, Half, World

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• Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very therapeutic, but that's best done in your journal, or on your blog if you're an exhibitionist. Trying to put a bunch of *specific* stuff from your personal life into your story usually just isn't appropriate unless you're writing a memoir or a personal essay or something of the sort.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Emotional, Issues

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• I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, New York, Wall

  Source: www.monergism.com

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• I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

  Stevie Nicks

  Locks

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.

  Emily Haines

  Song, Writing, Caring

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

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• Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

  "The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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• I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Creative, Leaving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary composition - similar to music - composed of autobiographical fragments. I'm really not telling the story of my life in a coherent narrative form.

  Paul Auster

  Winter, Thinking, Stories

  Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com.

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• When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.

  Paul Auster

  Independent, Winter, America

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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• I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.

  Walter Cronkite

  Believe, School, Thinking

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• Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives. Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Book, Blessing, Past

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• I thought the Wall Street Journal quote, they got a guy in Iowa to say I think exactly where I think this race is right now for a lot Republicans. He said, "Nobody in Iowa wants [Donald]Trump for president. But everybody in Iowa wants somebody like Trump for president." That's what you need.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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