Dictation Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil… — James Buchan
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're… — William Stafford
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and… — Ayn Rand
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can… — John Dewey
Being creative is not so much the desire Â to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of… — Anni Albers
Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation. — Richard G. Scott
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write — Tommy Shaw
... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question… — Bob Black
One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a… — Horace Mann
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. — William Graham Sumner
I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation. — Brian Bosworth
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process… — Andre Breton
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation. — Steven Pressfield
I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit.… — George Gissing
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University,… — Evelyn Waugh
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the… — Christopher Hitchens
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. — C.S. Lewis
the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it… — Rainer Maria Rilke

Who Wrote These Dictation Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 26 Dictation Quotes as follows: