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american-author authors coming
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. Mickey Spillane
american-author arbitrary given information point structure text
The point is that you could structure this arbitrary information in any way. Well, given that, now we can write text that can go in all directions. Ted Nelson
american-author angel anybody body hustler internal scribbling traffic wondering writer
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. Herbert Gold
american-author government happens moved power protect quickly sure
We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. Michael Connelly
american-author
What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.
american-author people
Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
american-author feeling success toward
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
american-author difference individual views
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
american-author dogs
The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him. Kathleen Winsor
children pride men
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing. Charles Dickens
children father heart
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
children father past
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise. Charles Caleb Colton
children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
grownups kids tendency themselves work
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic. Catherine Ryan Hyde
grownups life music nine recorded recording stories
I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too. Lisa Loeb
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learn offspring reason
We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.
learn people stop tolerant
We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.
reading writing character
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.
reading believe writing
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
reading writing style
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word. Charles Stross
reading years people
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. Charles Stanley
reading age praying
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. Charles Spurgeon
reading believe water
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.
reading light giving
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
reading writing impossible
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write. Alan Bennett
reading long enough
The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
teachers
If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it. Chris Crutcher
teachers trying
The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization. Wendy Kopp
teachers writer
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. Avi
teachers
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. Mary Quant
teachers
Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.
teachers
Some teachers are better with adults and some aren't.
teachers
If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.