Dictate Quotes

287 Dictate quotes by 251 unique authors

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work. — Sinclair Lewis
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think… — Ayn Rand
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a… — Sinclair Lewis
Goals dictate how matches go. — Paul Merson
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting… — Alexander Hamilton
By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline… — Alexander Hamilton
A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate… — Herbie Hancock
The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. It’s… — Michelle Rhee
Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become. — Unknown Author
I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction. — Jay-Z
Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook ... Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate. — Rush Limbaugh
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in… — Joel Chandler Harris
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser
If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it… — Napoleon Hill
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of… — Aung San Suu Kyi
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own… — Samuel Johnson
People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it. — Stedman Graham
For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign… — Jonathan Turley
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong,… — Gautama Buddha
When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a… — Neil Steinberg
By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. You shortchange yourself by devaluing the… — Elissa Schappell
Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination. — Gautama Buddha
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place',… — William Safire
The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the… — Edward Bernays

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