Paper Quotes

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  The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Leadership, Writing, Creativity

  "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

  Gene Fowler

  Inspirational, Writing, Blood

  Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.

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• The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Problem

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 11, 2017

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• All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Kids, Needs

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• Our civilization depends largely on paper.

  Pliny the Elder

  Civilization, Depends

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• Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

  Jim Rohn

  Time, Planning, Finished

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 20, 2016

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• Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Pieces, Letters

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• I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

  Alan Moore

  Morning, Smell, Victory

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• Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

  John Prine

  Writing, Leaving, Pieces

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• My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Writing, Perfect Days, Heaven

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• You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

  Edwidge Danticat

  School, Sacrifice, Tree

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• I wish I could just project everything on the paper.

  Patti Smith

  Wish, Projects

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.62, A&C Black

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• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Weekly World News" Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 33, April 25, 2005.

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  Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

  Milton Friedman

  Perfectly Good, Government, Ink And Paper

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• Writing has such a power for expressionEven when you can’t talk with no one else in the whole world you can talk to your paper. Your feelings whether good, bad or indifferent. We call it despojo in Spanish, which means to be able to get rid of all this agony, weight inside of you. It brings clarity.

  Piri Thomas

  Writing, Mean, Agony

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• If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

  Al Yankovic

  Political, Toilets, Want

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• People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions.

  Scott Young

  People, Emotion, Plastic

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• If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

  Gertrude Stein

  Communication, Writing, Fighting

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• Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Animal, Ink And Paper, Territory

  "Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson, Ch. 4, (p. 68), 1983.

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• When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

  Chris Colfer

  Inspirational, Bullying, Hurt

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• It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

  John Green

  Leaving, Paper Books, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

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• I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

  Brad Paisley

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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

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• Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Sports, Thinking

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• Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Motivational, Loving What You Do

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, December 1999.

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• Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

  Harvey Mackay

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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