Scanning Quotes

• We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Progress, Manipulation, Tools

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• When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Book, Writing

  "Beyond cuts: the many roles of a writer's editor" by Nell Frizzell, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2014.

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• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Men, Psychology

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.

  Shawn Achor

  Powerful, Teaching, Grateful

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Occupy Yourself, Literature

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

  Louise Penny

  Life, Distance, Father

  Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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• A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.

  Lorde

  Teenager, Taken, Eye

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• Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

  Shawn Achor

  Motivation, Stress, Creativity

  "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work". Book by Shawn Achor, 2010.

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• I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Order, Mind, Energy

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• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Character, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1839). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.2

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• Most readers look at the photograph first. If you put it in the middle of the page, the reader will start by looking in the middle. Then her eye must go up to read the headline; this doesn't work, because people have a habit of scanning downwards. However, suppose a few readers do read the headline after seeing the photograph below it. After that, you require them to jump down past the photograph which they have already seen. Not bloody likely.

  David Ogilvy

  Eye, Past, People

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• And I can tell by the way you're searching
  For something you can't even name
  That you haven't been able to come to the table
  Simply glad that you came
  And when you feel like this try to imagine
  That we're all like frail boats on the sea
  Just scanning the night for that great guiding light
  Announcing the Jubilee

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Night, Light, Sea

  Song: Jubilee, Album: Stones in the Road, 1994

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• Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.

  Russ Wilcox

  Eagles, Essence, Flying

  "Newspapers: The Future". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2005.

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• The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Moving, Knowing

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• She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Mind, Titles

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• Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Dream, Men, Wicked

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.15

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• I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.

  Robin Sloan

  Reading, Book, Wine

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are.

  David Letterman

  Inspirational, Holiday, Airports

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• Spinning out of my neuromarketing work where, based on scanning the brains of 2,000 respondents' brains using fMRI, we learned that there's a huge correlation between religion and branding - and thus the way that brands intend to generate customer evangelism are to be constructed.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Brain, Spinning, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes. Ignoring gets you a whole way out there. The good news is that by simply looking at something that somebody has done, scanning it and saying "Uh huh," that seems to be quite sufficient to dramatically improve people's motivations.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Eye, People

  "What makes us feel good about our work?". TED Talks, www.ted.com. October, 2012.

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• The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found by scanning over all the attainable states of the world and selecting the one which according to the postulated ethical welfare function is best. The solution 'exists'; the problem is how to 'find' it.

  Paul Samuelson

  Decision, World, Way

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1966). “The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson”, p.1225, MIT Press

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• Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back again and makes me feel that he's scanning the depths of my soul and teasing out my motivations and sins. It's worse than confession with Father Mooneyham. At the end of it, he says, "If you help, this will go faster.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Motivation, Father, Eye

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• I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel."She says there's massive danger down here,something too big for us to fix or deal with." "So of course you immediately came down.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Tunnels, Water

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• I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Eye, Light

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.220, Penguin

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• So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Air, Sick

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Song Of Hiawatha Xix: The Ghosts”

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