Revision Quotes
102 quotes by 89 authors
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What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
— Steven Pressfield
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you…
— Rachel Carson
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The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the…
— Stanislav Grof
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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they…
— Mary Douglas
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Half my life is an act of revision.
— John Irving
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There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of…
— Jonathan Kozol
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in…
— T.E. Lawrence
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
— Bernard Malamud
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I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some…
— George Saunders
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to…
— Vikram Seth
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When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?
— Katherine Paterson
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Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills…
— Janet Fitch
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The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not…
— Dan Brown
Who Wrote These Revision Quotes
89 authors contributed a total of 102 Revision Quotes, led by these top contributors: