Revise Quotes

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I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it… — Anthony Bourdain
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
Only in your imagination can you revise. — Fay Wray
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do… — Jacques Barzun
It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that… — Peter Singer
The economists will have to revise their theories of value. — Albert Einstein
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem — James Schuyler
We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory… — Russell Kirk
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it. — Henry Ford
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,… — John Dewey
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things — Rita Dove
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough… — Heinrich Hertz
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper. — S.A. Bodeen
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One… — Elaine Scarry
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the… — Paul Hawken
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not… — Diane Wakoski
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change… — Nan Goldin
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. — Katherine Paterson
That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to… — D. James Kennedy

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