Journal Quotes · Page 11

In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a…

— Susan Fiske

The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel…

— Karl Rove

I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a…

— Jennifer Egan

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I try to decipher if my life lives through my words or if my words become my life.”

— Shannon Lynette

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

— Harvey Mackay

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of…

— Wilford Woodruff

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently…

— K. Ritz

To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he…

— Michael Chabon

Writing in a journal each day, with a structured, strategic process allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish,…

— Hal Elrod

I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where…

— Chris Pine

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

— Dennis Ritchie

I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out…

— Todd Haynes

In an experiment by Dr. Robert Emmons at the University of California–Davis, people who kept a ‘gratitude journal,’ a weekly record of…

— Marci Shimoff

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

— Rodney Brooks

Then someone started pounding on the door. And not a little "Hey, what's up?" pound. Like there was a big sale on…

— Christopher Moore

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

— Jay Leno

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take…

— Aaron Swartz

Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very…

— Patrick Rothfuss

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every…

— Ann Beattie

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by…

— Erin Gruwell

The object is not so much to get you to keep a journal while you are young, as it is to get…

— Wilford Woodruff

“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework…

— Kent Haruf

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

— Jamais Cascio